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The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
W. W. Norton
May 2007
On Sale: May 15, 2007
1632 pages
ISBN: 0393045250
EAN: 9780393045253
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For over forty years the truth about the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. This book
releases us from a crippling distortion of American history. This extraordinary and historic book required twenty years
to research and write. The oft-challenged findings of the
Warren Commission—Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot and
killed President John F. Kennedy—are here confirmed beyond
all doubt. But Reclaiming History does much more than that.
In addition to providing a powerful and unprecedented
narrative of events and a biography of the assassin, it
confronts and destroys every one of the conspiracy theories
that have grown up since the assassination, exposing their
selective use of evidence, flawed logic, and outright
deceptions. So thoroughly documented, so compellingly lucid
in its conclusions, Reclaiming History is, in a sense, the
investigation that completes the work of the Warren
Commission. In it, Vincent Bugliosi, the nation's foremost
prosecutor, takes on the most important murder in American
history. At 1:00 p.m. on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy
was pronounced dead, the victim of a sniper attack during
his motorcade through Dallas. That may be the only fact
generally agreed upon in the vast literature spawned by the
assassination. National polls reveal that an overwhelming
majority of Americans (75%) believe that there was a
high-level conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald. Many even
believe that Oswald was entirely innocent. In this
continuously absorbing, powerful, ground-breaking book,
Vincent Bugliosi shows how we have come to believe such lies
about an event that changed the course of history. The brilliant prosecutor of Charles Manson and the man who
forged an iron-clad case of circumstantial guilt around O.
J. Simpson in his best-selling Outrage, Bugliosi is perhaps
the only man in America capable of writing the definitive
book on the Kennedy assassination. This is an achievement
that has for years seemed beyond reach. No one imagined that
such a book would ever be written: a single volume that once
and for all resolves, beyond any reasonable doubt, every
lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was
responsible. There have been hundreds of books about the assassination,
but there has never been a book that covers the entire case,
including addressing each and every conspiracy theory and
the facts, or alleged facts, on which they are based. In
this monumental work, the author has raised scholarship on
the assassination to a new and final level, one that far
surpasses all other books on the subject. It adds resonance,
depth, and closure to the admirable work of the Warren
Commission. Reclaiming History is a narrative compendium of fact,
forensic evidence, reexamination of key witnesses, and
common sense. Every detail and nuance is accounted for,
every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud on the American
public. Bugliosi's irresistible logic, command of the
evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed
fresh light on this American nightmare. At last it all makes
sense.
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