Reclaiming History
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy is a book by attorney Vincent Bugliosi (Norton, 2007, 1632 p., ISBN 0393045250) that analyzes the events leading up to and including the assassination of John F. Kennedy, focusing on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. The book is drawn from many sources, including the Warren Report. Bugliosi's 1600+ page, 1,535,791 word book (with a CD-ROM containing an additional 1000+ pages of footnotes) analyzes all aspects of the assassination and the rise of the conspiracy theories about Kennedy's assassination in the years subsequent to the event. Bugliosi argues that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. The book won the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.[1]
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Much of the book was based on Bugliosi's preparation for a mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald staged by British television, in which he acted as the prosecutor of Oswald, and obtained a verdict of "guilty":
My professional interest in the Kennedy assassination dates back to March 1986 when I was approached by a British production company, London Weekend Television (LWT) to "prosecute" Lee Harvey Oswald as the alleged assassin of President Kennedy in a proposed twenty-one hour television trial to be shown in England and several other countries, including the United States. I immediately had misgivings. Up to then, I had consistently turned down offers to appear on television in artificial courtroom settings. But when I heard more of what LWT was contemplating, my misgivings quickly dissolved. Although this could not be the real trial of Oswald...LWT, working with a large budget, had conceived and was putting together the closest thing to a real trial of Oswald that there would likely ever be, the trial in London being the only "prosecution" of Oswald ever conducted with the real witnesses in the Kennedy assassination. Through painstaking and dogged effort, LWT had managed to locate and persuade most of these original key lay witnesses, many of whom had refused to even talk to the media for years, to testify...There would be absolutely no script...and no actors would be used.[2]
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The book is divided into several major parts, including a detailed chronology of the events of the assassination, as well as an exploration of the major conspiracy theories, a chapter on the trial of Jack Ruby, and a chapter featuring his interviews with Marina Oswald.
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[edit] References
- ^ "Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2008 Edgar Award Winners". 2008-05-01. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-01-2008/0004805000. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
- ^ Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, p.xvi
[edit] External links
- Thomas Mallon, "A Knoll of One's Own", The Atlantic.
- Ron Rosenbaum, "The Return of the Magic Bullet", Slate.
- Bryan Burrough, "Or No Conspiracy?", New York Times.
- Who Killed Kennedy? One Man’s Answer
- Video of Vincent Bugliosi discussing JFK assassination
