Seven Days in November 1963

<p>Living in a Dallas boardinghouse separated from his wife Marina and their two children Lee Harvey Oswald feels completely powerless and desperate. But on November 19 1963 he sees two articles in the Dallas Times Herald; one on the front page in which President Kennedy calls for the overthrow of Castro in Cuba and the other announcing the president’s visit to Dallas this coming Friday. This Oswald believes is the opportunity for which he has been waiting.<br />In <em>Seven Days in November 1963</em> author <strong>Edward J. Gibbons</strong> presents a fictionalized account of Kennedy’s assassination an event that has posed a tragic complex puzzle to most of the American public for five decades. Gibbons fits the pieces of that puzzle into a plausible understandable story that takes place during the course of seven days in Dallas in late November 1963—a time of heightened Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union focusing on Cuba. <br /><em>Seven Days in November 1963</em> tells how Lee Harvey Oswald the president’s assassin and Jack Ruby the man who would kill Oswald two days later on live national television both had their own twisted delusional motives for committing their acts of violence. It also explores how the investigation into the assassination was compromised by American intelligence agencies that omitted vital information to protect themselves from responsibility or blame for the president’s death thus leading to decades of confusion and conspiracy theories about what actually happened.</p>