O’Reilly, Bill
Kennedy’s Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation, 255
pgs. Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
Language: G Mature Content: PG
Violence: PG
The author weaves the story of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey
Oswald, Jackie Kennedy, as well as members of the President’s staff and
family. Bill O’Reilly goes from one
person to another without skipping a beat.
We are able to feel how Oswald is feeling, his emotions, as well as the
way President Kennedy and his family and staff works with the day to day
running of the country. You will be able
to feel the desire that Lee Harvey Oswald to become a name that people would
remember and would make an impact on society.
You will be able to put yourself in the place of Jackie Kennedy as she
holds her husband’s head in her lap as he is dying. The pictures throughout the book bring it all
to life and help to put faces to names.
MS, HS – ADVISABLE. M
Olsen, teacher
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