BIBLIOGRAPHY

A NOTE ON SOURCES

The bibliography of the Kennedy assassination is enormous. There are thousands of books, magazines, pamphlets, and articles on the subject. No bibliography has ever listed them all. No library owns them all. One of the finest and most extensive collections in the world is not even in a public institution, and is the private library assembled by Washington, D.C., attorney, lobbyist, and association executive David Lovett. In addition to these published sources, millions of pages of documents in government files and elsewhere pertain to the assassination of President Kennedy. No person has read them all. No one ever will. Thus, any general reader who wishes to learn more about the subject must be selective.

On November 22, 1963, the American people experienced the assassination of John F. Kennedy as a shared event. People learned the news in a limited number of ways: by word of mouth; by telephone; by listening to the radio; by watching small, black-and-white television sets that received no more than four or five channels; and by reading daily newspapers and weekly newsmagazines. On the same day and at about the same time, almost the entire nation read the same stories, saw the same photographs, and watched the same televised images. For four days straight, the three national television news networks—CBS, NBC, and ABC—immersed the American people in a shared moment of national grief. For the first time in U.S. history, the medium of television unified a country through saturation coverage of a historic event. Similarly, the great weekly photojournalism magazines, Look, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post, published images and stories seen by tens of millions of people.

Once the story was over, people did not throw away their old newspapers and magazines. Instead, they preserved them as iconic family heirlooms, as time capsules for future generations. All over the country, people put them away in basements, closets, and attics, where they can still be found today. There is no better way to learn how America experienced the assassination of President Kennedy than by going back to these original sources. As you turn the pages of these old publications, now unparalleled artifacts of how the death of the president was reported and experienced, you will travel back in time and know what it was like to be alive on November 22, 1963. Later, the two major wire services released oversized, commemorative hardcover books that seemed to find their way into half the households in America. From United Press International came Four Days: The Historical Record of the Death of President Kennedy, and from the rival Associated Press came The Torch Is Passed: The Associated Press Story of the Death of a President. Across the nation, local newspapers mailed millions of copies of these low-priced books to their subscribers.

The first major book on the Kennedy assassination was the Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (known popularly as the “Warren Report”). Published in 1964 by the official U.S. government commission appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the Kennedy assassination, and chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Report consists of one volume of findings supported by twenty-six volumes of testimony, evidence, and exhibits. The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, that he acted alone, and that there was no evidence that he was part of a conspiracy. The publication of the Warren Report inaugurated a deluge of books on the Kennedy assassination that has not subsided to this day.

The following bibliography lists most of the books that I consulted while researching End of Days. For readers who want to learn more, I recommend several titles. The twenty-seven volumes published by the Warren Commission remain an essential source. Often dismissed by critics as out of date or ridiculed by the conspiracy minded as part of the cover-up, these volumes cannot be ignored, and contain vital information. Few people have ever actually read them. The unwieldy set occupied an entire shelf, and the books were expensive and difficult to cross-reference. Today, the work of the Warren Commission is available in searchable, electronic form.

For more on the sites connected to the assassination, including the Texas School Book Depository, and for a brief introduction to the story, see Conover Hunt’s Dealey Plaza National Historic Landmark Including the Sixth Floor Museum.

The majority of books published on the Kennedy assassination advance one conspiracy theory or another. The two best non-conspiratorial books are Gerald Posner’s Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK and Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. For readers deterred by the titanic size of the Bugliosi book, I recommend his shorter account, Four Days in November. For a brief and excellent introduction to the subject, on how it was reported, and for insightful commentary on the history and psychology of JFK assassination conspiracy theories, see Peter Knight’s The Kennedy Assassination. For an incisive analysis that places these theories within the larger context of the modern obsession with conspiracy interpretations of a number of twentieth-century events, see Knight’s Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-Files.

Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein remains one of the most important scholars of the Kennedy assassination. Beginning in 1966 with his landmark book Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth, Epstein—neither a conspiracy theorist nor an apologist for the Warren Commission—has asked skeptical questions about the events of November 22, 1963. His three books on the subject have been collected into one volume, The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend.

The two pioneering and encyclopedic books on November 22 to 25, William Manchester’s Death of a President and Jim Bishop’s The Day Kennedy Was Shot,are as compelling today as they were when they were published in the 1960s.

For more on the life of JFK, begin with James N. Giglio’s The Presidency of John F. Kennedy and Robert Dallek’s An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963. For a compelling narrative on the odd life of Lee Harvey Oswald, written by a journalist who knew Oswald and his wife, Marina (and, strangely, John F. Kennedy too), see Priscilla Johnson McMillan’s Marina and Lee. For another arresting account of Oswald, see Norman Mailer’s Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery. Marina and Lee and Oswald’s Tale remain two of the best five or six books ever written on the Kennedy assassination.

Thomas Mallon’s Mrs. Paine’s Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy remains one of my favorite books on the subject. More than almost any work on the subject, it resurrects the emotions of that terrible day in Dallas, fifty years ago.

GENERAL REFERENCES

Adler, Bill. The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Portrait in Her Own Words. New York: William Morrow & Company, 2004.

———. The Uncommon Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1996.

Allison, Graham, and Philip Zelikow. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Longman, 1999.

Alsop, Stewart. The Center: People and Power in Political Washington. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.

———. Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage. New York: William Morrow, 1996.

———. Jackie After Jack. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1998.

Amrine, Michael. This Awesome Challenge: The Hundred Days of Lyndon Johnson. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1964.

Anderson, Christopher. Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage. New York: William Morrow, 1996.

Beschloss, Michael, ed. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy. New York: Hyperion, 2011.

Bradford, Sarah. America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. New York: Viking Press, 2000.

Bradlee, Benjamin. That Special Grace. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1964.

Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–1965. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Brown, Thomas. JFK: The History of an Image. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson; The Passage of Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Collier, Peter, and David Horowitz. The Kennedys: An American Drama. New York: Summit Books, 1984.

Dallek, Robert. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 2003.

Davis, John H. Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intimate Memoir. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

———. The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster, 1848–1983. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1984.

Dobbs, Michael. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Donovan, Robert J. PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II. New York: McGraw Hill, 1961.

Fairlie, Henry. The Kennedy Promise: The Politics of Expectation. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.

Frankel, Max. High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.

Garside, Anne. Camelot at Dawn: Jacqueline and John Kennedy in Georgetown, May 1954. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Giglio, James N. The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. 2nd ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Gillette, Michael L. Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Goodman, Jon. The Kennedy Mystique: Creating Camelot. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006.

Hamilton, Nigel. JFK: Reckless Youth. New York: Random House, 1992.

Hellmann, John. The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Heymann, C. David. A Woman Named Jackie. New York: Carol Communications, 1989.

Hill, Clint, and Lisa McCubben. Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir. New York: Gallery Books, 2012.

Jones, Howard. The Bay of Pigs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Kelley, Kitty. Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.

Kennedy, John F. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy: 1961, 1962, 1963. 3 vols. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962–64.

Kennedy, Robert. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.

Klein, Edward. All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. New York: Pocket Books, 1996.

———. Just Jackie: Her Private Years. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998.

Kuhn, William. Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2010.

Lawrence, Gregg. Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.

Leamer, Laurence. The Kennedy Women. New York: Villard Books, 1994.

Leaming, Barbara. Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.

———. Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years. New York: Free Press, 2001.

Lubin, David M. Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Manchester, William. One Brief Shining Moment. New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1983.

Matthews, Chris. Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.

———. Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

May, Ernest R., and Philip D. Zelikow. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997.

Miller, Merle. Lyndon: An Oral Biography. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980.

Minow, Newton N., and Craig L. Lamoy. Inside the Presidential Debates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Nasaw, David. The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy. New York: Penguin Press, 2012.

O’Donnell, Kenneth P., David F. Powers, and Joseph McCarthy. “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye”: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1972.

Parmet, Herbert. Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy. New York: Dial Press, 1980.

———. JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.

Perry, Barbara A. Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

Piereson, James. Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism. New York: Encounter Books, 2007.

Pottker, Jan. Janet & Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.

Rather, Dan, and Mickey Herskowitz. The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1977.

Reeves, Richard. Portrait of Camelot: A Thousand Days in the Kennedy White House. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2010.

———. President Kennedy: Profile of Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Schieffer, Bob. This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2003.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.

Shaw, Mark. The John F. Kennedys: A Family Album. Rev. ed. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2000.

Shaw, Maud. White House Nannie: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr. New York: New American Library, 1966.

Shesol, Jeff. Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy and the Feud That Defined an Era. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.

Smith, Sally Bedell. Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House. New York: Random House, 2004.

Steel, Ronald. In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

terHorst, J. F., and Col. Ralph Albertazzie. The Flying White House: The Story of Air Force One. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979.

Wicker, Tom. JFK and LBJ: The Influence of Personality Upon Politics. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1968.

———. Kennedy Without Tears: The Man Beneath the Myth. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1964.

Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965. New York: Viking Press, 1987.

Widmer, Ted, ed. Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy. New York: Hyperion, 2012.

Wolff, Perry. A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.

Youngblood, Rufus W. 20 Years in the Secret Service: My Life with Five Presidents. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973.

THE ASSASSINATION

[Associated Press]. The Torch Is Passed: The Associated Press Story of the Death of a President. New York: Associated Press, 1963.

Belin, David W. Final Disclosure: The Full Truth About the Assassination of President Kennedy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988.

———. November 22, 1963: You Are the Jury. New York: Quadrangle, 1973.

Belli, Melvin M., and Maurice C. Carroll. Dallas Justice: The Real Story of Jack Ruby and His Trial. New York: David McKay Company, 1964.

Bishop, Jim. The Day Kennedy Was Shot. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968.

Blaine, Gerald, and Lisa McCubben. The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence. New York: Gallery, 2010.

Bloomgarden, Henry S. The Gun: A Biography of the Gun That Killed John F. Kennedy. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1975.

Brener, Milton E. The Garrison Case: A Study in the Abuse of Power. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1969.

Brennan, Howard L., and J. Edward Cherryholmes. Eyewitness to History: The Kennedy Assassination, as Seen by Howard Brennan. Waco, TX: Texian Press, 1987.

Bringuier, Dr. Carlos. Red Friday: Nov. 22nd, 1963. Chicago: Chas. Hallberg & Company, 1969.

Bugliosi, Vincent. Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.

———. Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.

Clarke, James W. American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Connally, Nellie, and Mickey Herskowitz. From Love Field: Our Final Hours with President John F. Kennedy. New York: Rugged Land Books, 2003.

Cottrell, John. Assassination: The World Stood Still. London: New English Library, 1964.

Curry, Jesse. Retired Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry Reveals His Personal JFK Assassination File. Dallas: American Poster & Printing Company, 1969.

David, Jay, ed. [pseud. for Bill Adler]. The Weight of the Evidence: The Warren Report and Its Critics. New York: Meredith Press, 1968.

Davison, Jean. Oswald’s Game. New York: W. W. Norton, 1983.

Epstein, Edward J. Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992.

Fagin, Stephen. Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas, and the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.

Fine, William M., ed. That Day with God. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.

Fitzpatrick, Ellen. Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation. New York: Ecco Press, 2010.

Ford, Gerald R., and John R. Stiles. Portrait of the Assassin. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.

Gertz, Elmer. Moment of Madness: The People vs. Jack Ruby. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1968.

Gillon, Steven M. The Kennedy Assassination—24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson’s Pivotal First Day as President. New York: Basic Books, 2009.

Glikes, Erwin A., and Paul Schwaber. Of Poetry and Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and Death of John F. Kennedy. New York: Basic Books, 1964.

Greenberg, Bradley S., and Edwin B. Parker, eds. The Kennedy Assassination and the American Public: Social Communications in Crisis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1965.

Grosvenor, Melville Bell. The Last Full Measure: The World Pays Tribute to President Kennedy. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 1964.

Hampton, Wilborn. Kennedy Assassinated!: The World Mourns: A Reporter’s Story. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1997.

Hanson, William H. The Shooting of John F. Kennedy: One Assassin, Three Shots, Three Hits—No Misses. San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company, 1969.

Harris, Patricia Howard. An Austin Scrapbook of John F. Kennedy. Austin, TX: Pemberton Press, 1964.

Hartogs, Renatus, and Lucy Freeman. The Two Assassins. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965

Hayes, Harold, ed. Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire’s History of the Sixties. New York: McCall’s Publishing Company, 1969. (Reprint of articles, include: “Kennedy Without Tears”; “Lee Oswald’s Letters to his Mother”; “You All Know Me! I’m Jack Ruby!”; and “Sixty Versions of the Kennedy Assassination.”)

Henderson, Bruce, and Sam Summerlin. 1:33. New York: Cowles, 1968.

Hlavach, Richard, and Darwin Payne, eds. Reporting the Kennedy Assassination: Journalists Who Were There Recall Their Experiences. Dallas: Three Forks Press, 1996.

Holland, Max. The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Hosty, James P., Jr. Assignment: Oswald. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996.

Hunt, Conover. Dealey Plaza National Historic Landmark Including the Sixth Floor Museum. Dallas, TX: The Sixth Floor Museum, 1997.

Hunter, Diana, and Alice Anderson. Jack Ruby’s Girls. Atlanta: Hallux, 1970.

Itek Corporation. John Kennedy Assassination Film Analysis. Lexington, MA: Itek Corporation, 1976.

———. Life-Itek Kennedy Assassination Film Analysis. Lexington, MA: Itek Corporation, 1967.

———. Nix Film Analysis. Lexington, MA: Itek Corporation, 1967.

Kaplan, John, and Jon R. Waltz. The Trial of Jack Ruby. New York: Macmillan Company, 1965.

Kirkwood, James. American Grotesque: An Account of the Clay Shaw–Jim Garrison Affair in the City of New Orleans. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970.

Knight, Peter. The Kennedy Assassination. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Lattimer, John K. Kennedy and Lincoln: Medical and Ballistic Comparisons of Their Assassinations. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.

Leslie, Warren. Dallas: Public and Private. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1964.

Lewis, Richard Warren, and Lawrence Schiller. The Scavengers and Critics of the Warren Report: The Endless Paradox, Based on an Investigation by Lawrence Schiller. New York: Delacorte Press, 1967.

Loken, John. Oswald’s Trigger Films: The Manchurian Candidate, We Were Strangers, Suddenly. Ann Arbor, MI: Falcon Books, 2000.

Mailer, Norman. Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery. New York: Random House, 1995.

Mallon, Thomas. Mrs. Paine’s Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy. New York: Pantheon Books, 2002.

Manchester, William. The Death of a President: November 20–November 25, 1963. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.

Mayo, John B., Jr. Bulletin from Dallas: The Story of John F. Kennedy’s Assassination as Covered by Radio and TV. New York: Exposition Press, 1967.

McMillan, Priscilla Johnson. Marina and Lee. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977.

Moore, Jim. Conspiracy of One; The Definitive Book on the Kennedy Assassination. Fort Worth, TX: Summit Group, 1990.

Morin, Relman. Assassination: The Death of President John F. Kennedy. New York: Signet Books, 1968.

Mossman, Billy C., and B. C. Stark. The Last Salute: Civil and Military Funerals, 1921–1969. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1971.

Mulvaney, Jay, and Paul De Angelis. Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares Its Grief—Letters, November 1963. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010.

Myers, Dale K. With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J. D. Tippit. Milford, MI: Oak Cliff Press, 1998.

[NBC News]. Seventy Hours and Thirty Minutes, as Broadcast on the NBC Television Network by NBC News. New York: Random House, 1966.

———. There Was a President. New York: Ridge Press, 1966.

Oswald, Robert, Myrick Land, and Barbara Land. Lee: A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald by His Brother Robert Oswald. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967.

Posner, Gerald. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. New York: Random House, 1993.

Rajski, Raymond B., ed. A Nation Grieved: The Kennedy Assassination in Editorial Cartoons. Rutland, VT: Chares Tuttle Company, 1967.

Roberts, Charles. The Truth About the Assassination. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1967.

Savage, Gary. JFK First Day Evidence: Stored Away for 30 Years in an Old Briefcase, New Evidence Is Now Revealed by Former Dallas Police Crime Lab Detective R. W (Rusty) Livingstone. Monroe, LA: Shoppe Press, 1993.

Seigenthaler, John. A Search for Justice. Nashville, TN: Aurora Publishers, 1971.

Semple, Robert B., Jr., ed. Four Days in November: The Original Coverage of the John F. Kennedy Assassination by the Staff of the New York Times. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003.

Sites, Paul. Lee Harvey Oswald and the American Dream. New York: Pageant Press, 1967.

Sneed, Larry A. No More Silence: An Oral History of the Assassination of President Kennedy. Dallas, TX: Three Forks Press, 1998.

Sparrow, John. After the Assassination: A Positive Appraisal of the Warren Report. New York: Chilmark Press, 1967.

Stewart, Charles J., and Bruce Kendell, ed. A Man Named John F. Kennedy: Sermons on His Assassination. Glen Rock, NJ: Paulist Press, 1964.

Sturdivan, Larry M. The JFK Myths: A Scientific Investigation of the Kennedy Assassination. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2005.

Thornley, Kerry W. Oswald. Chicago: New Classics House, 1965.

Trask, Richard B. National Nightmare on Six Feet of Film: Mr. Zapruder’s Home Movie and the Murder of President Kennedy. Danvers, MA: Yeoman Press, 2005.

———. Pictures of the Pain: Photography and the Assassination of President Kennedy. Danvers, MA: Yeoman Press, 2004.

———. That Day in Dallas: Three Photographers Capture on Film the Day President Kennedy Died. Danvers, MA: Yeoman Press, 1998.

Trost, Cathy and Susan Bennett. President Kennedy Has Been Shot: The Inside Story of the Murder of a President. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2003.

[United Press International]. Four Days: The Historical Record of the Assassination of President Kennedy. N.p.: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1964.

U.S. House of Representatives. Final Report of the Select Commission on Assassinations, and the accompanying 12 hearing and appendix volumes on the JFK Assassination, 95th Congress, 2nd Session. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.

U.S. Senate. Memorial Addresses in the Congress of the United States and Tributes in Eulogy of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a Late President of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.

Vagnes, Oyvind. Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in the Visual Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.

Walsh, William G. Children Write About John F. Kennedy. Brownsville, TX: ­Springman-King, 1964.

[Warren Commission.] Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 26 vols. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.

———. Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.

White, Stephen. Should We Now Believe the Warren Report? New York: Macmillan Company, 1968.

Wills, Garry, and Ovid Demaris. Jack Ruby: The Man Who Killed the Man Who Killed Kennedy. New York: The New American Library, 1968.

Wise, Dan and Marietta, Maxfield. The Day Kennedy Died. San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Co., 1964.

Wolfenstein, Martha, and Kliman Gilbert, eds. Children and the Death of a President: Multi-Disciplinary Studies. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1965.

Wrone, David R. The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: An Annotated Bibliography. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973.

Zelizer, Barbie. Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

CONSPIRACY LITERATURE

Adams, Don. From an Office Building with a High-Powered Rifle: One FBI Agent’s View of the JFK Assassination. Walterville, OR: TrineDay, 2012.

Anson, Robert Sam. They’ve Killed the President: The Search for the Murderers of John F. Kennedy. New York: Bantam Books, 1975.

Armstrong, John. Harvey & Lee; How the CIA Framed Oswald. Arlington, TX: Quasar, 2003.

Baker, Judyth Vary. Me and Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald. Walterville, OR: TrineDay, 2010.

Bane, Bernard M. The Bane in Kennedy’s Existence. Boston: BMB Publishing Company, 1967.

Belzer, Richard. Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of the Witnesses in the JFK Assassination. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013.

Benson, Michael. Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: An A to Z Encyclopedia. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1993.

Blakey, G. Robert, and Richard N. Billings. The Plot to Kill the President. New York: Times Books, 1981.

Bonner, Judy Whitson. Investigation of a Homicide: The Murder of John F. Kennedy. Anderson, SC: Droke House, 1969.

Brown, Walt. Treachery in Dallas. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1995.

———. The Warren Omission; A Micro-Study of the Methods and Failures of the Warren Commission. Wilmington, DE: Delmax, 1996.

Buchanan, Thomas. Who Killed Kennedy? London: Secker & Warburg, 1964.

Callahan, Bob. Who Shot JFK? A Guide to the Major Conspiracy Theories. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Chambers, Paul. Head Shot: The Science Behind the JFK Assassination. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010.

Chapman, Gil, and Ann Chapman. Was Oswald Alone? San Diego: Publishers Export Company, 1967.

Crenshaw, Charles A., M.D., Jens Hansen, and J. Gary Shaw. JFK: Conspiracy of Silence. New York: Signet Books, 1992.

Cutler, Robert B. The Flight of CE 399: Evidence of Conspiracy. Beverly, MA: Omni-Print, 1969.

———. Two Flightpaths: Evidence of Conspiracy. Manchester, MA: Cutler Designs, 1971.

———. The Umbrella Man: Evidence of Conspiracy. Manchester, MA: Cutler Designs, 1975.

DiEugenio, James. Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992.

Douglass, James W. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. New York: Orbis Books, 2008.

Duffy, James R. Who Killed JFK? Kennedy Assassination Cover-Up. New York: Shalpol­sky Publishers, 1989.

Eddowes, Michael. The Oswald File. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1977.

Evica, George Michael. And We Are All Mortal: New Evidence Analysis in the John F. Kennedy Assassination. West Hartford, CT: University of Hartford, 1978.

Fenster, Mark. Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Fensterwald, Bernard, Jr., and Michael Ewing, eds. Coincidence of Conspiracy? New York: Zebra Books, 1977.

Fetzer, James H. Assassination Science: Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK. Chicago: Catfeet Press, 1998.

Flammonde, Paris. The Kennedy Conspiracy: An Uncommissioned Report on the Jim Garrison Investigation. New York: Meredith Press, 1969.

Fonzi, Gaeton. The Last Investigation: A Former Federal Investigator Reveals the Man Behind the Conspiracy to Kill JFK. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1993.

Fox, Sylvan. The Unanswered Questions About President Kennedy’s Assassination. New York: Award Books, 1965.

Garrison, Jim. A Heritage of Stone. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970.

———. On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988.

Gershenson, Alvin H. Kennedy and Big Business. Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, 1964

Groden, Robert J. The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination, the Conspiracy, and the Cover-Up. New York: Viking Studio Books, 1993.

———. The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald: The Comprehensive Photographic Record. New York: Penguin Studio Books, 1995.

Groden, Robert J., and Harrison Edward Livingston. High Treason: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: What Really Happened. New York: Conservatory Press, 1989.

Gun, Nerin E. Red Roses from Texas. London: Frederick Muller, 1964.

Hancock, Larry. Someone Would Have Talked. Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2010.

Hepburn, James. Farewell America. Belgium: Frontiers, 1968.

Hinckle, Warren, and William W. Turner. Deadly Secrets: The CIA-Mafia War Against Castro and the Assassination of J.F.K. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1992.

Horne, Douglas P. Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK. 5 vols. N.p.: Author, 2009.

Hurt, Henry. Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1986.

Joesten, Joachim. The Dark Side of Lyndon Baines Johnson. London: Peter Dawnay, 1968.

———. The Garrison Enquiry: Truth & Consequences. London: Peter Dawnay, 1967.

———. How Kennedy Was Killed: The Fully Appalling Story. London: Dawnay/Tandem, 1968.

———. Marina Oswald. London: Peter Dawnay, 1967.

———. Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy? London: Merlin Press, 1964.

———. Oswald: The Truth. London: Peter Dawnay, 1967.

Jones, Penn, Jr. Forgive My Grief: Vols. 1–4. Midlothian, TX: Midlothian Mirror, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1974.

Kaiser, David E. The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of JFK. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Belknap Press, 2008.

Kantor, Seth. Who Was Jack Ruby? New York: Everest House, 1978.

Kelin, John. Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2007.

Krusch, Barry. Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald. 3 vols. Asheville, NC: ICI Press, 2012.

Kurtz, Michael L. Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian’s Perspective. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982.

———. The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Lane, Mark. A Citizen’s Dissent: Mark Lane Replies. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968.

———. The Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011.

———. Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991.

———. Rush to Judgment: A Critique of the Warren Commission’s Inquiry into the Murders of President John F. Kennedy, Officer J. D. Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966.

Lifton, David S. Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1980.

Livingstone, Harrison Edward. Killing Kennedy and the Hoax of the Century. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1995.

McClellan, Barr. Blood, Money and Power: How LBJ Killed JFK. New York: Hanover House, 2003.

McFarlane, Ian. Proof of Conspiracy in the Assassination of President Kennedy. Melbourne, Australia: Book Distributors, 1975.

McKnight, Gerald D. Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.

Marcus, Raymond. The Bastard Bullet: A Search for Legitimacy for Commission Exhibit 399. Los Angeles: Rendell Publications, 1966.

Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989.

Meagher, Sylvia. Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967.

Melanson, Philip H. Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald and U.S. Intelligence. New York: Praeger, 1990.

Mellen, Joan. A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK’s Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005.

Menninger, Bonar. Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992

Miller, Tom. The Assassination Please Almanac. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1977.

Model, F. Peter, and Robert J. Groden. JFK: The Case for Conspiracy. New York: Manor Books, 1977.

Morris, W. R., and Robert B. Cutler. Alias Oswald. Manchester, MA: GKG Partners, 1985.

Morrow, Robert D. Betrayal. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1976.

———. First Hand Knowledge: How I Participated in the CIA-Mafia Murder of President Kennedy. New York: S.P.I. Books, 1992.

Moss, Armand. Disinformation, Misinformation, and the “Conspiracy” to Kill JFK Exposed. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1987.

Murray, Norbert. Legacy of an Assassination. New York: Pro-People Press, 1964.

Nechiporenko, Oleg M. Passport to Assassination: The Never-Before-Told Story of Lee Harvey Oswald by the KGB Colonel Who Knew Him. New York: Birch Lane Press Books, 1993.

Nelson Phillip F. LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011.

Newman, Albert H. The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: The Reasons Why. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1970.

Newman, John. Oswald and the CIA. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1995.

North, Mark. Act of Treason. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1991.

Oglesby, Carl. The JFK Assassination: The Facts and the Theories. New York: Signet Books, 1992.

———. The Yankee and Cowboy Wars. Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1976.

Oswald, Marguerite. Aftermath of an Execution; The Burial and Final Rites of Lee Harvey Oswald as Told by His Mother. Dallas: Challenge Press, 1965.

O’Toole, George. The Assassination Tapes: An Electronic Probe into the Murder of John F. Kennedy and the Dallas Coverup. New York: Penthouse Press, 1975.

Popkin, Richard H. The Second Oswald. New York: Avon Books, 1966.

Prouty, L. Fletcher. JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy. New York: Birch Lane Press Books, 1992.

Ramparts Magazine, ed. In the Shadow of Dallas: A Primer on the Assassination of President Kennedy. San Francisco: Ramparts, 1967.

Roffman, Howard. Presumed Guilty: Lee Harvey Oswald in the Assassination of President Kennedy. Rutherford, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1975.

Russell, Bertrand. 16 Questions on the Assassination. Passaic, NJ: Minority of One, 1964.

Russell, Dick. The Man Who Knew Too Much. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992.

Russo, Gus. Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.

———. Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK. Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998.

Sauvage, Leo. The Oswald Affair: An Examination of the Contradictions and Omissions of the Warren Report. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1966.

Scheim, David E. Contract on America: The Mafia Murders of John and Robert Kennedy. New York: Shalpolsky Publishers, 1988.

Schotz, Martin. History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy. Brookline, MA: Kurtz, Olmer & Delucia, 1996.

Scott, Peter Dale. Crime and Cover-up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection. Berkeley, CA: Westworks Publishers, 1977.

Scott, Peter Dale, Paul L. Hock, and Russell Stetler, eds. The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond. New York: Random House, 1976.

Shaw, J. Gary, and Larry R. Harris. Cover-up: The Governmental Conspiracy to Conceal the Facts about the Public Execution of John Kennedy. Cleburne, TX: Authors, 1976.

Sloan, Bill, and Jean Hill. JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness. Greta, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1992.

Stafford, Jean. A Mother in History. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966.

Stone, Oliver, and Zachary Sklar. JFK: The Book of the Film. New York: Applause Books, 1992.

Summers, Anthony. Conspiracy. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1980.

Tague, James T. Truth Withheld: A Survivor’s Story—Why We Will Never Know the Truth About the JFK Assassination. Dallas: Excel Digital Press, 2003.

Thomas, Ralph D. Missing Links in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy. Austin, TX: Thomas Investigative Publications, 1992.

———. Photo Computer Image Processing and the Crime of the Century: A New Investigative & Photographic Technique. Austin, TX: Thomas Investigative Publications, 1992.

Thompson, Josiah. Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-study of the Kennedy Assassination. New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1967.

Waldron, Lamar. Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, and the Murder of JFK. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.

Weisberg, Harold. Case Open: The Omissions, Distortions and Falsifications of Case Closed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994.

———. Never Again. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1995.

———. Oswald in New Orleans: Case of Conspiracy with C.I.A. New York: Canyon Books, 1967.

———. Whitewash; Whitewash II; Photographic Whitewash; Whitewash IV; and Postmortem. Hyattstown and Frederick, MD: Author, 1965, 1966, 1966, 1974, and 1975.

Wilber, Charles G. The Medicolegal Investigation of the President John F. Kennedy Murder. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1978

Wrone, David R. The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK’s Assassination. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.

Zirbel, Craig I. The Texas Connection: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Scottsdale, AZ: Wright & Company, 1991.

JFK ASSASSINATION FICTION

Aubrey, Edmund. Sherlock Holmes in Dallas. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980.

Ballard, J. G. Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1969. (Chapters include: “The Assassination of John F. Kennedy—Considered as a Downhill Motor Race” and “Plan to Assassinate Jacqueline Kennedy.”)

Balling, L. Christian. The Fourth Shot. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1982.

Bealle, Morris A. Guns of the Regressive Right or How to Kill a President. Washington, DC: Columbia Publishing Company, 1964.

Berry, Wendall, and Ben Shahn. November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three. New York: George Braziller, 1964. (poetry and art)

Braver, Adam. November 22, 1963: A Novel. Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2008.

Brown, Walt. The People v. Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992.

Condon, Richard. Winter Kills. New York: Dial Press, 1974.

DeLillo, Don. Libra. New York: Viking, 1988.

DiMona, Joseph. Last Man at Arlington. New York: A. Fields Books, 1973.

Ellroy, James. American Tabloid. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Freed, Donald, and Mark Lane. Executive Action: Assassination of a Head of State. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1973.

Freedman, Nancy. Joshua Son of None. New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.

Garrison, Jim. The Star Spangled Contract. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976.

Garson, Barbara. MacBird! New York: Grassy Knoll Press, 1966. (play)

Harrington, William. Columbo: The Grassy Knoll. New York: Forge Books, 1993.

Hastings, Michael. Lee Harvey Oswald: A Far Mean Streak of Indepence (sic) Brought on by Negleck (sic). Baltimore, Penguin Books, 1966. (play)

Heath, Peter. Assassins from Tomorrow. New York: Prestige Books, 1967.

Hunter, Stephen. The Third Bullet: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Jensen, J. Arthur. The Kennedy Assassination: A Historical Novel. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation, 2001.

King, Stephen. 11/22/63: A Novel. New York: Scribner Book Company, 2011.

La Fountaine, George. Flashpoint: A Novel. New York: Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1976.

Lawn, Donald James. The Memoirs of John F. Kennedy: A Novel. Seattle, WA: Castlefin Press, 2010.

McCarry, Charles. The Tears of Autumn. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975.

Malzberg, Barry. The Destruction of the Temple. New York: Pocket Books, 1974.

———. Scop. New York: Pyramid Books, 1976.

Mayer, Robert. I, JFK. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1986.

Meltzer, Brad. The Fifth Assassin. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2013.

Morris, Wright. One Day. New York: Atheneum, 1965.

O’Donnell, M. K. You Can Hear the Echo. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966.

Shapiro, Stanley. A Time to Remember. New York: Random House, 1986.

Sloan, Bill. The Other Assassin. New York: S.P.I. Books, 1992.

Sondheim, Stephen, and John Weidman. Assassins. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1991. (musical)

Stevens, James, and David Bishop. Who Killed Kennedy: The Shocking Secret Linking a Time and a President (Doctor Who Series). London: Doctor Who Books, 1996.

Swanson, Doug. Umbrella Man: A Jack Flippo Mystery. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1999.

Thomas, D. M. Flying into Love. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992.

Thornley, Kerry W. The Idle Warriors. Avondale Estates, GA: IllumiNet Press, 1991.

Thurston, Wesley S. The Trumpets of November. New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1966.

Vincent, E. Duke. The Camelot Conspiracy: A Novel of the Kennedys, Castro, and the CIA. New York: Overlook Press, 2011.

Wilden, Theodore. To Die Elsewhere. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

Woolley, Brian. November 22. New York: Seaview Books, 1981.