Dealey Plaza Dallas Texas Friday November 22 1963 1230 PMShots ring out A president dies & a nation is plunged into psychosis Don De Lillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events & people surrounding the assassination of President John F Kennedy Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency & Nicholas Branch a CIA archivist trying to make sense of or draw inferences from the mass of information after the assassination Libra presents an unapologeticly provocative picture of America in the second half of the last century