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A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

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A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963? Philip Shenon, a veteran investigative journalist who spent most of his career at The New York Times, finally provides many of the answers.

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
by Philip Shenon

  • Publication Date: February 3, 2015
  • Genres: History, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 688 pages
  • Publisher: Picador
  • ISBN-10: 1250060753
  • ISBN-13: 9781250060754