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Learn more about the books written by the experts who appear in "As It Happened: John F. Kennedy 50 Years":
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
By Philip Shenon | Shenon, a veteran investigative journalist who spent most of his career at The New York Times, began "A Cruel and Shocking Act" as an attempt to write the first insider's history of the Warren Commission. But it quickly became something much larger and more important when he discovered startling information that was withheld from the Warren Commission by the CIA, FBI and others in power in Washington.The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
By Robert A. Caro | "The Passage of Power" follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and most triumphant periods of his career-1958 to 1964. </p><p></p>In Caro's description of the Kennedy assassination, we see the events of Nov. 22, 1963, for the first time through Lyndon Johnson's eyes.With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit
By Dale K. Myers | Myers brings 35 years of research to this second-by-second account of the murder of Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit - killed 45 minutes after the assassination of President Kennedy - and the frantic manhunt that ended in the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald.With Malice weaves first-hand accounts (many taken from personal interviews), newly released documents, and previously unpublished photographs into a detailed tapestry of facts that lifts the mystery surrounding this pivotal moment in American history.