Killing Kennedy

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More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill OReillys Killing Lincoln the page-turning work of non-fiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The OReilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal muder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- & how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent America into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War & its culture-changing aftermath. In January 1961 as the Cold War escalates John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships solitude & temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of formidable enemies among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev Cuban dictator Fidel Castro & Alan Dulles director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition powerful elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting the president & his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene only to be caught & shot dead while in police custody. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism & deceit of Camelot bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader. This may well be the most talked about American book of the year.