Four Days In November: The Assassination Of President John F Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi

To the historical record, knowing that nothing in the present can exist without the paternity of history, and hence, the latter is sacred, and should never be tempered with or defiled by untruths.

Paperback:  Four Days in November (2007) is an extraordinarily exciting, precise, and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald.

It covers the shattering event in Dealey Plaza, the futile efforts to save the president's life, the apprehension and interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald, his subsequent murder by Jack Ruby, and the funerals of Kennedy and Oswald on the fourth day following the assassination.

It is broken down into two books, Book One being on what happened, the non-conspiracy part, and Book Two, on what did not happen, the conspiracy allegation part of this sweeping story.  There is also a section on Oswald's biography.

It is drawn from Reclaiming History:  The Assassination of President John F Kennedy, a monumental and historic account of the event that required twenty years to research and write, by Vincent Bugliosi, legendary prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter.  That book goes beyond the fascinating narrative of events to confront and destroy every one of the conspiracy theories that have grown up since the assassination, exposing their selective use of evidence, flawed logic, and outright deceptions.  So thoroughly documented, so compellingly lucid in its conclusions, Reclaiming History is, in a sense, the investigation that completes the work of the Warren Commission.

Readers who enjoy Four Days in November or who have unanswered questions about conspiracy theories and the various investigations of the assassination, will want to consult Bugliosi's magnum opus, Reclaiming History, which has raised scholarship on the assassination to a new and final level, one that far surpasses all other books on the subject.

For general readers, the carefully documented account presented in Four Days in November is utterly persuasive:  Oswald did it and he acted alone.

About the author:  Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney and author, is a three-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the best true crime book of the year category for his No 1 New York Times bestsellers, Helter Skelter (1974) and Till Death Do Us Part (1978) and Reclaiming History:  The Assassination of President John F Kennedy (2007).  In his career at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, he successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials and his most famous trial was the Charles Manson case, which became the basis of his bestselling book Helter Skelter.  He lives with his wife in Los Angeles.