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  2 0 For whatever reason I'm assuming you mean non-fiction accounts, but there is a truly terrific novel that deals with it - Don DeLillo's Libra  - which I would certainly suggest to anyone interested in the subject. Pushing it a bit further out onto the fictional limb, Charles McCarry's Tears of Autumn is a truly great political thriller about the assassination, regarded by many readers and the definitive conspiracy account. The most exhaustive (-ing?) work of nonfiction is Vincent Bugliosi's 2007 title Reclaiming History, which sifts through pretty much every account and theory that has been advanced so far. It is huge - over 1,600 pages - but for someone wanting to really dig in, this would be the book.  Four Days in November is a collection of original source material from the time - the New York Times coverage of the events - and provides an interesting you-are-there view of events as they unfolded. For a completely different approach, try Mrs. Paine's Garage, by Thomas Mallon, which looks at the whole thing from the angle of a woman who was friends with Lee and Marina Oswald. David Wright answered in Book Recommendations 6 months ago | Report 5 comments by ben9599, David Wright, and protosaurus… 0 0 I think Reclaiming History would be what I am looking for. Tears of Autumn also sounds interesting. Thanks. Know anything about "The Girl on the Stairs"? ben9599 commented 6 months ago | Report 0 0 I do not - it seems to have created some stir among the JFK conspiracy community, but was not at all reviewed in the mainstream media. No conspiracy there: it was self-published, and probably just not submitted for review. So I give it a shrug - I notice the author Barry Ernest isn't mentioned or footnoted in Bugliosi's vast 2007 book, which suggests he's new on the JFK scene. David Wright commented 6 months ago | Report 0 0 I came here to insist that Libra be on this list and am very happy to see that it is the first book listed. protosaurus commented 6 months ago | Report 0 0 Me too. "Libra" is absolutely riveting. Fnarf commented 6 months ago | Report 0 0 May I second the recommendation for "Reclaiming History" and "Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" by Vincent Bugliosi .... as described below... O my captain commented 5 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 "Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye" is one, don't recall the author. "Seven Seconds in Dallas" is another. Part of the answer depends upon what flavor you want in your reading. Are you interested in alternative conspiracy theories? Do you want to know what the country did? Do you want the Warren Report version of the lone gunman? Or do you favor the JFK/Oliver Stone sensationalism? Also, a new fiction book just out, is Stephen King's "11-22-63" which takes a very interesting twist on the historical facts. O my captain answered in Book Recommendations 6 months ago | Report 3 comments by O my captain, O my captain, and O my captain… 0 0 PS: Though I'm sure someone will suggest reading the entire Warren Report, I found it to be almost unreadable in it's bulk...though portions were riviting. The photographic evidence of the Zappruder film clearly has a frame or two printed out of order, but I don't suspect any cover-up attempt... only an error in printing. O my captain commented 6 months ago | Report 0 0 OK, the name of the book was "Six Seconds in Dallas". Sorry. Also, there was a good paperback called "A Time to Remember" that was made into a made for TV Movie called "Running Against Time" starring Robert Hays in a serious dramatic role of a man who goes back in time to try to stop or slow the Viet Nam war to save his brother. Along the way, he tries to stop the shooting of FJK with mix bag results. It's a good adventure, based loosely on factual accounts... but it's decidedly fiction. O my captain commented 6 months ago | Report 0 0 I've just finished "Reclaiming History" by Vincent Bugliosi, not only giving a timeline of the assassination, but also dismissing each and every one of the conspiracy theories on the weight of common sense, logical reasoning and outright facts. Rivetting. The first four chapters were released separately (the timeline, minute by minute) as "Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" by Vincent Bugliosi in paperback. The full book is also available on CD read by the wonderful Edward Herrman. O my captain commented 5 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Gerald Posner's "Case Closed" is the best anti-conspiracy book there is, and should be read by everyone who subscribes to any of the popular (or unpopular) conspiracy theories, because he blows holes in many of the common assertions about the case -- Oswald wasn't a good enough marksman, the rifle couldn't be fired that rapidly, an unusual number of people associated with the case died early deaths, etc. -- none of which assertions are true. Doesn't mean he's right, but it DOES mean that a lot of conspiracy "evidence" is rubbish. But not all of it. The assassination is such a complex, swirling swamp of craziness and conflicting testimony, almost all of it misremembered or hiding secret agendas that it makes"Rashomon" look like an arithmetic problem. It's easy to get lost in it yourself. Posner can help you keep your bearings even if you decide you disagree with him. To my mind, it's pretty definite that Oswald did it and did it alone. I think he was perfect for the crime, and I also think that no one in their right mind would have conspired with him for more than five seconds. One also has to consider that the usual suspects are about as competent as the Watergate burglars a decade later (some will tell you they're the same guys), and there is no way in hell those guys could have covered up a prank phone call, let alone the murder of a president for sixty years. Fnarf answered in Book Recommendations 6 months ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 An incredibly thorough, well-documented, and painstakingly researched account--and easily one of the strangest preadolescent birthday presents from my parents--was David Lifton's "Best Evidence." http://www.amazon.com/Best-Evidence-Signet-David-Lifton/dp/0451175735 capicola answered in Book Recommendations 6 months ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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