Lake Charles native and former Lafayette, Louisiana resident Todd Elliott is now one of the youngest published authors in the JFK Assassination genre thanks to his November 22, 2012 story from The Eunice News on Rose Cherami.
As an investigative journalist and photographer, his book, "A Rose By Many Other Names: Rose Cherami & The JFK Assassination", came as a direct result of Elliott's feature story in the Eunice News. The story went viral and garnered well over 27,000 views. However, Elliot's first story published on Cherami, with the same working title, was featured in a November 2010 issue of Lagniappe Magazine in Lake Charles.
The book was slated for publication on September 19, 2013 from Trine Day Publishing. The book received worldwide distribution in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination.
Set apart from the nearly hundreds of titles on the assassination, Elliott's book focused on a footnote known to JFK historians for years, Rose Cherami- who was arrested in Eunice, Louisiana some 48 hours before the assassination and claimed that the men that she was traveling with were on their way to kill Kennedy on Friday in Dallas. This was the first indication of foreknowledge and made Eunice the "birthplace of the JFK assassination conspiracy". This is the first book to be published on the subject of Rose Cherami.
Elliott has been a freelance writer for more than 20 years with his work appearing in such publications as The Contraband (at McNeese State University in Lake Charles), Public News (of Houston), Pile Magazine (of Houston), The Daily Advertiser (of Lafayette), Greater Lafayette Business Journal (of Lafayette, La.), Jambalaya News (of Lake Charles), Lagniappe Magazine (of Lake Charles), American Press (of Lake Charles), Lakecharles.com, The Eunice News (of Eunice, La.), Crowley Post-Signal (of Crowley, La.) and The Abbeville Meridian (of Abbeville, La.).