On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
To mark the 50th anniversary of this incident, police and crime historian Edward Attard has released a publication, in the Maltese language, dedicated to the subject.
The first three chapters of the book, John F. Kennedy, Il-President Assassinat, deal with the Kennedy and Fitzpatrick families, his childhood, the Bay of the Pigs (Cuba) invasion, the Cuban missile crisis and Kennedy’s support in the cause of civil rights.
By the fall of 1963, Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign.
Kennedy was aware that a feud among party leaders in Texas could jeopardise his chances of carrying the state in 1964 and one of his aims for the trip was to bring democrats together.
The other chapters deal with the assassination of Kennedy, the Warren report and the other reports by commissions set up to investigate further the case. Although the circumstances surrounding the assassination spawned suspicions of a conspiracy, the Warren Commission concluded that there was noconspiracy. Attard also mentions the various JFK assassination theories, allegations and speculations still going on even now, 50 years on.
In the three appendices to the book, the author has included the quotes by government officials and other prominent people about the Kennedy assassination. Another appendix deals with the correspondence between Jacqueline Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson and President Nikita Khrushchev.
The other two appendices are about the three other American Presidents assassinated and the American Secret Service.
The book will be available in all major bookshops or directly from BDL publishers.
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