I have been a US citizen for more than 30 years but not in 1963. With so many reviews here I have absolutely nothing to say about the actual events of that terrible day in Dallas.
Just where I was and what I was doing at that time. I
was getting ready to leave my native Czechoslovakia for the USA (it
took me 5 years more to arrive in New York) and I listened every night
to Voice of America in Special English.
That evening it started slowly but it quickly became a regular broadcast US English I had more difficulty to follow. I understood the tragic news, however. 'President Kennedy was shot' followed quickly by the announcement of his death.
I started to call all friends I had in the city of Prague who tuned their radio to the same VOA broadcast.
Just
as the book describes the American reaction, we had a hard time to
believe what we heard. But it was the reality and the end of an era for a
great part of the world.
Were the three years of JFK's presidency some kind of dream? It looks that way now.
Was
there some kind of conspiracy? Many believe it was. My personal one is
based on the movie Manchurian Candidate, wisely not shown here for
several decades, with Oswald as the pre-programmed automaton.
Even if US agencies knew or suspected something like that, they could not risk WWIII by even hinting it publicly.
So we got some 10 or more conspiracy theories instead that will never be proven or disproved.
The authors did a very decent job and the popularity of their book is well deserved.
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