A forensic study of JFK's death debunked the conspiracies and taught me that ... - The Guardian
Eighteen months old at the time of the first Kennedy slaying, I was old enough to ask why my mother started crying when, in a Yorkshire shop in June 1968, a transistor radio confirmed that the second Kennedy had died. Robert Francis Kennedy is a powerful presence – and John Fitzgerald Kennedy an overwhelming absence – in The Death of a President, a book by William Manchester that I have thought about immeasurable times since first reading it in 1975. By then I... We played sport against another local school that was actually called John F Kennedy , a measure of the impact his death had made in England. My dad, a history graduate and obsessive consumer of the news, had a library of books about politics and it was there that I discovered The Death of a President. William Manchester was a newspaper reporter who became a history professor, and in this account of Kennedy’s assassination he combines the highest standards of both professions. Jacqueline Kennedy had commissioned the book 10 weeks after the murder, although she subsequently delayed its appearance, apparently concerned by private details about family relationships. Source: www.theguardian.com
