The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

by Lisa McCubbin Hill, Gerald Blaine, Clint Hill

Book Overview

The New York Times bestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as told by the Secret Service agents who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439192960
• ISBN13: 9781439192962
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 427 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A good read for those not familiar with the background of event.

The book is a good read for those who are not familiar with what happened in relation to the Secret Service and others around the death of JFK. A lot of this was written though in the excellent 'Death of a President' by William Manchester, first written at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy as an authorised account, and published in 1967 or '68, and very detailed it is on the 4 to 5 days before, during and after the assassination of the President. The book later was disputed by the Kennedy family as they wanted some things left out. Eventually it was settled in court and I read 1m dollars of the book sales was given by the author to the JFK Presidential Library. It is still in print at the time of writing. I deduct one star from the Kennedy Detail. As the strong belief that shots came at the motorcade from the front are not really taken on board. JFK's closest aides, Kenny O'Donnell and Dave Powers, who were in the motorcade, said years later at a dinner with their friend the late Democrat Massachusetts politician, TP O'Neill, they still believed all the years later they saw rifle shots coming from the front at the side and when they said it at the time, the FBI said they were mistaken as the shots came from behind, so they fell in with the FBI as the times were dangerous. TP O'Neill wrote of this in his political memoir in the late 1980s or 1990s. It is an important piece of information overlooked or not known of.