A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the
assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling
author Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln.
**The basis for the 2013 television movie of the same name starring Rob
Lowe as JFK.
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More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing
Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking
assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the
iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the
brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how a sequence of gunshots
on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent
the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and 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,
and 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, and Allen
Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition,
powerful elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting
the president and 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 and 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 and deceit of Camelot, bringing
history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader.
