Review: Not in Your Lifetime – The Assassination of JFK

by Anthony Summers (headline)

More than half a century has passed since the mysterious assassination of John F Kennedy and a few more years promise to be filled with speculation before the next set of official documents related to the November 1963 shooting in Dallas,Texas, of America’s 35th President is released by the US government.

Experienced, award-winning author, Anthony Summers, has followed the intriguing case for three decades and this latest edition of his work is an update of previous investigatory labour based on new material available, and chances are there will be yet another book released after more relevant documents are released by the government in 2017.

Summers goes into great detail, with factual evidence and interviews of many people, from start to finish of his 445-page publication in exploring whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination or whether the shooting on November 22, 1963 was part of a conspiracy, coming as it did during the Cold War.

None of the key characters in the tragedy remains alive, but in hoping that 2017 will provide more revelations, Summers also seems aware that another major happening overtook the American psyche on September 11, 2001.

This could leave Oswald ill-defined and, in Summers’s own words, “a figure in the fog of incomplete investigation and the absence of real official will to discover the full truth”.