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The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Real Target in Dallas
By Reston, James
- ISBN
- 9781939126108 9781939126092
- Publisher
- Zola
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Reviewed on September 15, 2013 | Social Sciences
Reston elaborates on the assertion he made in his 1989 biography, The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally, using circumstantial evidence to posit that lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald (Reston does not believe in a conspiracy) wasn't intending to hit JFK but was aiming to kill the Texas governor and former secretary of the navy. Reston takes readers through the assassination narrative but with a focus on John and Nellie Connally, who sat in front of President and Mrs. Kennedy in the motorcade car. The shot that ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
