Conspiracy, fact, fiction, life, death, biography, politics, history... whatever your thoughts are about John F. Kennedy, here are some books on the topic (and some related stories).
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last updated May, 2026
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters
James W. Douglass
Five Days in November
Clint Hill
Why England Slept
John F. Kennedy
PT109: John F. Kennedy in World War II
Robert John Donovan
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Robert F. Kennedy
The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy
Larry J. Sabato
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
Philip Shenon
America's Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy
Monika Wiesak
A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Lisa Pease
JFK: Public, Private, Secret
J. Randy Taraborrelli
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
David Talbot
The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination
Lamar Waldron
Not In Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFK
Anthony Summers
The Making of the President 1964
Theodore H. White
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace
Peter Janney
Quotations of John F. Kennedy
Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
Howard Blum
Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
Alexandra Zapruder
The Incredible Life & Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen
Sara Jordan-Heintz
Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation
Ellen Fitzpatrick
End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
James L. Swanson
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
Brad Meltzer
CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why Us Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK
Patrick Nolan
The Poison Patriarch: How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK
Mark Shaw
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Robert Dallek
Profiles in Courage
The improbable triumvirate: John F. Kennedy, Pope John, Nikita Khrushchev
Norman Cousins
Oswald and the CIA
John M. Newman
LBJ: The Mastermind of The JFK Assassination
Philip F. Nelson
The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK
Abraham Bolden
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