From the Author Why did I write a novel about JFK's death? 1963 is a footnoted time travel novel. It is a sequel to another time travel novel 1961, in which Patch Kincaid chases a terrorist back to 1961 and causes JFK to be assassinated. 1961's history was researched. As I moved into the realm of the actual killing of the president of the United States, it became increasing clear to me that I had better state facts and not theory. I am not a researcher, but researchers have uncovered facts. This has been done in field investigations and the scouring of documents released with the ARRB in the National Archives. I provide an extensive written, spoken and video bibliography in the 1963 appendix. When something happens with Oswald or is referred to- it is backed up with research and documentation. How fair is it to President Kennedy if it were otherwise?  Let me quote an old Irish proverb:   "It's a hard-fought battle from which no man returns to tell the tale."   Bill O'Reilly's background information on President Kennedy is intriguing in his book Killing Kennedy. And... I liked O'Reilly's other " Killing " books because I learned history I did not know. Especially with Booth, the Romans, and World War II. In Killing Kennedy history seems to unfold with concurrent events as the life of Lee Oswald is transcribed onto the printed page. Or is it? Can we really know what Oswald was up to in 1963 without looking into the detailed work of a John Armstrong? Or Bill Simpich, Jim DiEugenio, Robert Groden, Dick Russell, Joan Mellen, Jim Marrs or Jim Fetzer. Check out my complete researchers page.   How can O'Reilly definitively say Lee Oswald traveled to Mexico City to gain entry into Cuba and the Soviet Union, when there is not one photograph of the man within a heavily photographed quadrant of Mexico City? A blond haired man, saying he was Lee Harvey Oswald,  was in the Cuban consulate according to Sylvia Duran and Cuban consul Azcue. And the Cubans have given us his photo. All ignored by O'Reilly.   Equally ignored was Armstrong's uncovering of the Mannlicher-Carcano purchase. There was no payment to or deposit by Klein Sporting Goods in Chicago and a phony post office order, whose number sequence began in the year 1965. Amnesia again. Let's look at the gun in the Lee Harvey Oswald Rifle Quiz I produced on You Tube: Lee Harvey Oswald Rifle Quiz Part One Lee Harvey Oswald Rifle Quiz Part Two   Lee Harvey Oswald Rifle Quiz: Conclusion Knowing what we know now the outmoded mantra in Killing Kennedy is ludicrous. Track Oswald's movements in the depository prior to the shooting of the president and one finds him on the second floor and in the doorway. Amnesia again. Anyone can imply or twist anything. The Warren Commission did this and Killing Kennedy's framework is the Warren Commission. Witnesses were badgered into hyper-fear.  Here's my You Tube video and some of the things we know:   Where's Oswald? The Death of a President is a book I bought and read as a teenager. Bill O'Reilly has treated the accounts in William Manchester's book as if it were sacred literature. Fifty years have come and gone since Manchester recounted what he knew and what he was told so close to November 22, 1963. Also, many portions of Killing Kennedy read like some of FBI reports from 1963 that were subsequently merged into the Warren Commission Volumes. Is it really fair just to deal with outdated sources, data and opinion?  And what of Stephen King and 11-22-63? I absolutely love the way Stephen King writes. His twisting plots and his characters are vivid in my mind. In 11-22-63 the time travel aspect of the novel seduced me and I was taken with Jake Epping to 1958 and the long march toward the Kennedy assassination. But the end result and the subsequent character assassination of Lee Oswald cannot be allowed to stand.   I do not doubt the integrity of Stephen King. His relying on the official version of the JFK assassination from the Sixth Floor M