Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

There should be absolutely no doubt in your mind who assassinated John F Kennedy by the halfway point of this book.

Bugliosi's book on the JFK assassination is one of a very few *sane* books on the subject. And it is absolutely masterful. So many of these books start out by repeating mistakes and outright lies from other books; VB checked each fact carefully before he presented it as a fact. It's literally true, that _Reclaiming History_ is the only book you need to read, to know everything worth knowing about the JFK killing. It's... Read Full Review

Bugliosi combines 4 Days in November with reviews of evidence and the life of Oswald, and Conclusions of the Warren Commission to prove that the Kennedy Assisination was the work of one man. As you read it, though, you wonder, at least about possible Soviet involvement since he was in contact with the Soviets in Mexico just weeks before the assassination. Could he have been an Manchurian Candidate? My only question. ... Read Full Review

I was 9 years old when Olver Stone's JFK was released - and that film and subsequent studies about Kennedy in school piqued my interest into the entire assassination. In 1993, after seeing a documentary on CBS or NBC, made for the 30-year anniversary of the tragedy, I REALLY got interested - at at age 11, started scouring the public library, devouring as many books on the assassination that I could. Although my personal research... Read Full Review

Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History" is an excellent book, and well worth the long read. It is a good overview of all of the events of November 22, 1963, here in Dallas, and a good overview of many of the problems with the Warren Commission and other theories. However, the reader should keep in mind that Mr. Bugliosi is a Prosecutor, and not a researcher or investigator. His tendency is to build a case to prosecute the... Read Full Review