Those rare 'heroes' of good give us hope for good in a relentlessly dark world. Was it their relative youth,their class, charisma? Those things are factors but I think that We hang our dreams consciously or unconsciously on those that embody those rare characteristics of goodness and kindness. I've meditated on this question- it seems important to learn why this is so. Why am I so affected by something so removed and distant? Why were people around the world so intensely effected? It reminded me of when princess DI died, there was the same world-wide eruption of grief out of all proportion. I feel so emotionally drained by the experience that I too feel like I am in mourning for this president, despite the fact that I'm Canadian and was just 2yrs old when all this happened. I couldn't put it down! Though I was so wound -up and upset that I had to listen to something else in bed so I could sleep. Every detail pulled me in tighter and tighter till I felt entirely part of the scene. It would be hard to imagine a fuller accounting of that week.

This is a remarkable account of EVERYTHING that was thought, done and said in the timeframe of the assassination and funeral. Manchester was picked for 2 reasons-firstly he was a friend of jfk and secondly he was a very respected writer/ historian. When jfk was killed -Jackie and the Kennedy clan hand picked William Manchester to write the full official account of the assassination from their end for posterity. What you must know from the start is the historic nature of this book.

The death of a president manchester