Considering the magnitude of the event of November 22, 1963, and the government's attempt to blame a lone gunman, it is astonishing that a clear majority of Americans suspect there was a conspiracy behind the killing of John F. Kennedy. Since the passage of fifty years has obscured so much about what happened that day, it's finally time to shed fresh light on this American nightmare. There's a whole book worth of things we know now that we didn't know then. Anatomy of an Assassination is brimming with amazing true stories, corrected myths, and particular particulars about the greatest unsolved crime of the twentieth century. It's not meant to provide a comprehensive nor complete academic reference, but rather an accessible guide to the tragic sequence that shaped history and the world in a manner never seen before or since.