Reclaiming History

The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

By: Vincent Bugliosi

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

2008 Audie Award Finalist for Achievement in Abridgement

Edgar Award Winner, Best Fact Crime, 2008

Polls reveal that 85 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald. Some even believe Oswald was entirely innocent. In this encyclopedic, absorbing audiobook, Vincent Bugliosi shows how the public has come to believe such lies about the day that changed the course of history.

Bugliosi has devoted almost 20 years of his life to this project, and is determined to show that, despite the overwhelming popular perception, Oswald killed Kennedy and acted alone.

The brilliant prosecutor of Charles Manson and the man who forged an ironclad case of circumstantial guilt around O. J. Simpson in his best-selling Outrage, Bugliosi is perhaps the only man in America capable of "prosecuting" Oswald for the murder of President Kennedy. Reclaiming History is a narrative compendium of fact, ballistic evidence, reexamination of key witnesses, and common sense. Every detail and nuance is accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud upon the American public.

Bugliosi's irresistible logic, relentless pursuit of the truth, and command of the evidence shed fresh light on this American nightmare, providing a new understanding of what did and did not happen in Dallas on November 22, 1963. At last we know what really happened. At last it all makes sense.

©2007 Vincent Bugliosi. All rights reserved (P)2007 Simon and Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.

Critic reviews

"Vincent Bugliosi is an American master of common sense, a punishing advocate and a curmudgeonly refreshing voice of reason....With this work, Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America. It is a book for the ages." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

The Truth Prevails

The first thing I want to say is that Edward Herrmann's narration is without a doubt the finest narration I have listened to. This book leaves no doubt as to who killed John Kennedy. I never believed the conspiracy theories and Mr. Bugliosi's minute by minute account of the events through the words of the people who were there leaves absolutly no doubt as to what really happened. Too much time was spent on debunking the conspiracy theories in particular there was way too much Oliver Stone. By that time in the book, it was convincingly clear that Oswald acted alone. The assassination is a very compelling piece of history. I wish the book could have incorporated the entire Warren Report, but that would have made for a very long book.

The Truth is Right In Front of Us

What did you love best about Reclaiming History?

This book tells it all and with out a doubt

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Any additional comments?

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Riveting

Bugliosi's matter-of-fact, minute-by-minute account of the assassination is riveting. Obviously from other comments here, not everyone had the same response; I can only speak for myself. I found it difficult to pause the narrative, willing to listen for minutes and then hours past my usual threshold. When Bugliosi came to the Tippett murder, I felt like I was standing on the corner, another eye-witness. (Edward Hermann's narration, by the way, is first-rate.)

Finally a complete and clearly accurate accounting

I was still puzzled all these years later and this answered in detail every question, query, quibble, and melodramatic false statement. A job brilliantly done. A necessary job. So much detail and inarguable point by point dissection of absolutely everything and everyone involved. Also, Herrman is a wonderful reader. Terrific book. Deserves a thank-you.

A great documentary

The killing of JFK will always make interesting reading and this story is very will written. Listing to this "documentary will take away the doubt about who was lone killer.

A Masterpiece of Reasoned Exposition

Vincent Bugliosi proves beyond a shadow of doubt that, Lee Harvey Oswald, alone, murdered President John F. Kennedy and that, to date, no credible evidence exists, to prove otherwise. If you want to know exactly what happened on November 22nd 1963 in Dallas, Texas, read/listen to this book.

Takes the wind out of my conspiracy-theory sails

I had just turned two years old when President Kennedy was assassinated. Growing up, I got to know all the conspiracy theories, speculations about the CIA, the FBI, how spotty the Warren Commission's report was, how the official Lone Nut story made no sense. I even read a whole book that swore LBJ arranged the whole thing.

Well systematically and methodically, one by one, this book dismantled all my lifelong-held notions. Bugliosi takes us minute by minute through the crime and the events afterward, showing one solid proof after another that Oswald indeed acted alone and the Warren Commission was correct. There were details I hadn't known, like how firearms experts were indeed not only able to duplicate Oswald's accuracy, but improve upon it. After listening, I had to honestly wonder how all the conspiracy theories started in the first place.

I used to think, "I want to know who really killed President Kennedy." Well, now that's been put to rest. Thank you, Mr. Bugliosi.

Solid proof

Bugliosi proves unequivocally that Oswald and Ruby acted alone. As the saying goes, even a blind squirrel gets an acorn now and then.

The book was a lot of work however....

I have read other books by this author that were magnificent dossiers. This was so different than his usual writing style I would not have recognized his voice. Loaded with gaslighting comments and so assertive the last three chapters felt like he was yelling and preaching. Still worth the read for details not before published. But he had a lot of blind spots and fixed ideas on this one.

Informative

Adds depth and clarity to this unfortunate momemt in American history. The book answers all the questions that somone with only a casual knowledge of the event may still have rattling around in the back of their head.