History Will Prove Us Right: Inside the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Couverture rigide

Willens, Howard P.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 146830755X ISBN 13 : 9781468307559

Editeur : Overlook Books, 2013

Synopsis

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 an elaborate cover-up. Warren himself calmly dismissed the criticism, assuring his fellow commission members that "history will prove that we are 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 living 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Howard P. Willens is the only living member of the three-person supervisory staff of the Warren Commission. After the commission's report was published, he left the Department of Justice and in 1965 served as the Executive Director of the President's commission on Crime in the District of Columbia. In 1967, he returned to private law and has continued to practice and write in Washington, DC ever since.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Overlook Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 146830755X
• ISBN 13: 9781468307559
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible