Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Abridged)

by Vincent Bugliosi Narrated by Edward Herrmann

Overview

The nation's foremost prosecutor takes on the most important murder case in American history

For over forty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. Now Vincent Bugliosi, author of the biggest selling true-crime book of all time, finally releases us from a crippling distortion of American history.

Twenty years in the making, Reclaiming History resolves, beyond any reasonable doubt, every lingering question surrounding the Kennedy Assassination. Bugliosi confronts and destroys the theories that have grown up since the assassination, revealing their selective use of evidence, flawed logic, and outright deceptions. Providing a powerful and unprecedented narrative of events and a biography of the assassin, he confirms the oft-challenged findings of the Warren Commission -- Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot and killed President John F. Kennedy -- and exposes every conspiracy theory as a fraud on the American public.

A narrative compendium of fact, forensic evidence, reexamination of key witnesses and common sense, Reclaiming History surpasses all other books on the subject. With his irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and startling inferences, Bugliosi draws on his legendary skills as a prosecutor to shed fresh and definitive light on this long American nightmare.

Editorial Reviews

JUN/JUL 08 - AudioFile

Prosecutor Bugliosi’s investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy disputes, point by point, the dozens of conspiracy theories surrounding the shooting, chiefly Oliver Stone’s film, JFK. Narrator Edward Herrmann creates a pleasing but authoritative tone and perfectly paces data that might, in other hands, be overwhelming in its detail and scope. There are moments when Bugliosi’s tone is mocking of the authors who believe there was more than one shooter in the murder of the president. Overall, the theories of plots involving the FBI, the CIA, and the “military-industrial complex” are explained and dismissed. A caution: While most of us have seen the Zapruder film of the president’s shooting, this reviewer experienced a visceral revulsion as the assassination was examined moment by moment. R.O. 2008 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

JUN/ JUL 08 - AudioFile

Prosecutor Bugliosi’s investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy disputes, point by point, the dozens of conspiracy theories surrounding the shooting, chiefly Oliver Stone’s film, JFK. Narrator Edward Herrmann creates a pleasing but authoritative tone and perfectly paces data that might, in other hands, be overwhelming in its detail and scope. There are moments when Bugliosi’s tone is mocking of the authors who believe there was more than one shooter in the murder of the president. Overall, the theories of plots involving the FBI, the CIA, and the “military-industrial complex” are explained and dismissed. A caution: While most of us have seen the Zapruder film of the president’s shooting, this reviewer experienced a visceral revulsion as the assassination was examined moment by moment. R.O. 2008 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171206376
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	05/22/2007
Edition description:	Abridged
Sales rank:	787,081

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