Who Killed Kennedy: James Stevens & David Bishop
Who killed Kennedy? Perhaps...perhaps. Fans of the long-running TV series Doctor Who may find the two sentences above easier to parse. And they will be familiar with the principle that fictional works can deal with questions that will not be tolerated in the scripted reality show we call public debate. The book revolves around James Stevens, a cynical journalist who you will see listed on the cover as an author, and begins with an excerpt from a work written by him which was forcibly withdrawn from publication before it could hit the shelves. David Bishop, also listed, doesn't appear until much later on, in a stylistic nod to Arthur Conan Doyle's role as John Watson's editor in the Sherlock Holmes stories. So, you might ask, and intuitively add the questionmark that is conspicuously absent from the title. Who killed Kennedy ? In this book you will come across elements you are doubtlessly familiar with: Zapruder, the Texas School Book Depository and the grassy knoll, to...