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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

Gerald Posner

"The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. There was no second gunman on the grassy knoll. The CIA was not involved. And although more than four million pages of documents have been released since Posner first made his case, they have served only to corroborate his findings. Case Closed remains the classic account against which all books about JFK's death must be measured."--BOOK JACKET.

HistoryAmerican History · medium confidenceAmerican History81 signalsLlm Classifier: American History -> American HistoryTopic Classifier: Crime, Policing & Violence -> True Crime & JusticeAward Category: Pulitzer Prize in History -> HistoryCrime, Policing & ViolencePresidency & Executive PowerMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion

Award History

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Pulitzer Prize in HistoryMajor1994FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Lee Harvey Oswald95%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Gerald Posner argues that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, with no second gunman on the grassy knoll and no CIA involvement, and later documents corroborate this conclusion.

    Model confidence 82%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    28 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.