Killing Kennedy Critical Book Review
Giovanni Marrero 2/17/2014
Mrs. Riefenhauser APUSH Period 2
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O’Riely and Martin Dugard
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot Bill O’Rielly and Martin Dugard cover the struggles in the presidency and personal life during the shortened life of the 35rd President of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The book, published in 2012, thoroughly discusses the controversial events leading up to the murder of JFK and in a similar timeline, the events throughout the bizarre and twisted life of JFK’s alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The book displays how influential the presidency of John F. Kennedy was to the American people, and to the world. As one of the most influential and important First Ladies in the United States of America in history, Jacqueline Kennedy’s time in the White House was also critical to the development and success of John F. Kennedy’s political leadership in his time as a politician and as the president which is also discussed in the book. As time elapses throughout the 1950’s to the 1960’s, the reader receives further insight of John F. Kennedy and those most relative to his legacy, whether that means being a wife, brother, child, mistress, or murderer. The Prologue starts on January 20, 1961 and John F. Kennedy is being sworn into office. The mispronunciations in his clipped Boston accent symbolize more than just a man who seems to be a ‘common man’, and not an automated bot who is programmed to run the country, but it represents the difference between him and all of the presidents prior. He will be tested and be placed into scenarios that indefinitely are the most difficult and possibly destructive to an entire population. JFK had internal affairs to take care of in America, but the communism, war, and nuclear warfare outside of US territory was much more significant. Chapter 1 begins with a younger JFK, then known as
Mrs. Riefenhauser APUSH Period 2
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O’Riely and Martin Dugard
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot Bill O’Rielly and Martin Dugard cover the struggles in the presidency and personal life during the shortened life of the 35rd President of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The book, published in 2012, thoroughly discusses the controversial events leading up to the murder of JFK and in a similar timeline, the events throughout the bizarre and twisted life of JFK’s alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The book displays how influential the presidency of John F. Kennedy was to the American people, and to the world. As one of the most influential and important First Ladies in the United States of America in history, Jacqueline Kennedy’s time in the White House was also critical to the development and success of John F. Kennedy’s political leadership in his time as a politician and as the president which is also discussed in the book. As time elapses throughout the 1950’s to the 1960’s, the reader receives further insight of John F. Kennedy and those most relative to his legacy, whether that means being a wife, brother, child, mistress, or murderer. The Prologue starts on January 20, 1961 and John F. Kennedy is being sworn into office. The mispronunciations in his clipped Boston accent symbolize more than just a man who seems to be a ‘common man’, and not an automated bot who is programmed to run the country, but it represents the difference between him and all of the presidents prior. He will be tested and be placed into scenarios that indefinitely are the most difficult and possibly destructive to an entire population. JFK had internal affairs to take care of in America, but the communism, war, and nuclear warfare outside of US territory was much more significant. Chapter 1 begins with a younger JFK, then known as