Killing Kennedy

2012

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.

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 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 Alan

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. This may well be the

most talked about book of the year.