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The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President. By Steven M. Gillon. New York: Basic Books, 2009. 320 pp.
Questions such as whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F Kennedy on November 22, 1963 continue to fascinate many people, but Steven M. Gillon has chosen to shift the focus somewhat to exploring the transfer of political power to Lyndon B. Johnson. In doing so, he draws on many new sources (such as the papers of William Manchester, who in 1 967 wrote a bestselling account of the assassination) and clarifies important details. The book is fluidly written and provides engaging pen portraits of the key figures involved. Among other things, it captures the contempt and cruelty of the Kennedy crowd -...