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Thomas Sugrue: The Kennedy Assassination, 22 July 2010
The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After
by Steven Gillon.
Basic Books, 294 pp., £15.99, November 2009,978 0 465 01870 3 Show More
by Steven Gillon.
Basic Books, 294 pp., £15.99, November 2009,
“... that with modern medical care both Garfield and McKinley would have survived). Kennedy’s death, Steven Gillon argues, ‘resulted in the most violent and sudden transition of presidential power in American history’. But it was not the abruptness or even the violence that mattered most. It was, instead, that by 1963 the modern presidency had become ... ”
