Killing Kennedy [antikvár]

Prologue January 20,1961 Washington, D.C. 12:51 p.m. The man with fewer than three years to hve has his left hand on the Bible. Chief Justice Earl Warren stands before him reciting the Presidential Oath of Office. "Do you, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear . . ." "I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear," the new president repeats in a clipped Boston accent. His gaze is directed at the jurist whose name will one day be synonymous with Kennedy's own death. The new president, born into wealth, has a refined manner of speaking that would seem to distance him from the electorate. But he is an enthusiastic and easily likeable man's man. He joked openly about his father's vast riches during the campaign, defusing that divisive issue with humor and candor so that average Americans would trust him when he spoke about making America better. "Poor men in West Virginia heard a man from Boston say he needed their help, and they gave it. In the alien