On the Trail of the Assassins
One Man's Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy
by Jim Garrison
A recommendation by Kevin Kolb
This book was on my grandmother’s nightstand for years. It was my introduction to the JFK assassination. It’s been revered. It’s been lambasted. It is the cornerstone of Oliver Stone’s movie JFK and of his documentary, JFK REVISITED: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
What is indisputable is that the book raises questions and has no definitive answers. There are so many questions, that the sheer number of them makes me think there is more to the story. I re-read it every few years. I do it because it’s interesting to see how Jim Garrison sounds to me now. I’ve read it and convinced myself that there was a conspiracy. I’ve read it and thought for sure that Oswald acted alone. It is simultaneously a snapshot of a simpler time and a snapshot of what America could have been.
Parts of this book are referenced in our Oswald’s Diary game.
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