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416 pages, ebook
First published November 12, 2013
• Lee Harvey Oswald probably acted alone.
• There are no secrets in our society. If, in 50 years, no other gunman has been identified, then it's probably because none exist.
• Even so, the Warren Commission was flawed in the research, technique and conclusions.
This book attempts to re-create a moment when time stopped. It seeks to recapture how Americans lived through this tragedy and to resurrect the mood and emotions of those unforgettable days between President John F. Kennedy's murder and his funeral... our misguided modern–day obsessions with exotic, multiple, and contradictory conspiracy theories involving tales of grassy knolls, umbrella men, magic bullets, second gunmen, Oswald impostors, doctored films, fraudulent photographs, and all–powerful government cover–ups has caused us to lose the emotional connection to the events of November 1963. We have strayed too far from the human truths of that day. A wife lost her husband. Two children lost their father. A nation lost a president... the death of one man caused a nation to weep. Half a century later, Americans refuse to forget him. We mourn him still.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, is as compelling as any drama written by William Shakespeare. It is the great American tragedy.