History will prove us right : inside the Warren Commission report on the assassination of John F. Kennedy / Howard P. Willens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willens, Howard P., 1931- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination.

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.

United States. Warren Commission.

Willens, Howard P., 1931-.

Assassination.

Physical Description:

399 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2013.

Summary:

"On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was murdered in front of hundreds of onlookers. Everything was over in mere seconds, but the events of that day have been the subject of heated debate for five decades. The presidential commission tasked with finding the truth, headed by then-Chief Justice Earl Warren, published its findings the following year--Oswald had acted alone--but the report did little to quell conspiracy theorists. Many seized on what they saw as inconsistencies in the report and branded the whole investigation a cover-up. Warren himself calmly dismissed the criticism, assuring his fellow commission members that 'history will prove us right.' Now, in this eye-opening new account of the Commission and its findings, Howard P. Willens sets out to prove that Warren's advice was prescient. Willens, one of the few surviving staff members of the Warren Commission, supervised the investigation from the very beginning and has waited until now to silence the critics and well-intentioned armchair detectives. Drawn from Willens' own journals and extensive notes on the investigation--which have never before been published--History Will Prove Us Right tells the true and complete story, perhaps for the first time, of every aspect of the investigation into one of the century's most harrowing events from a uniquely first-person perspective." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

December 1963 : the nation responds

January 1964 : distrust of the FBI grows

February 1964 : the search for evidence begins

March 1964 : our investigation expands

April 1964 : Mexico and the Cuban connection

May 1964 : critical decisions

June 1964 : crucial witnesses

July / August 1964 : a tale of tragic truth

September 1964 : the last debates

Aftermath.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-388) and index.

ISBN:

9781468307559

146830755X

OCLC:

854956993