Lee Harvey Oswald: A Far Mean Streak of Independence Brought On By Negleck
By (Author) Michael Hastings
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
11th May 2013
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Paperback
120
Width 130mm, Height 210mm
132g
If Lee Harvey Oswald did it, he could not have done it alone. If he did not, he must be the hit of the century. If he was involved and somehow double-crossed, alive today must be persons with the guilt of awful silence. Dallas, Texas. 12.30pm. Friday, 22 November 1963. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. 48 hours later, Lee Harvey Oswald himself was murdered. Told through the eyes of Oswalds wife and mother, coupled with extracts from the Warren Commissions report, we follow the unsettled drifting life of Lee Harvey Oswald his loveless marriage to his Russian wife, his challenging relationship with his mother and his pathological hatred of Kennedys life and achievements. Oswald had the means, motive and opportunity, but did he even do it Could a man who never did anything on his own murder a President
Michael Hastings (19382011) was the winner of two Emmy Awards, two BAFTAs, the Somerset Maugham Award and was nominated for an Oscar. His first play Dont Destroy Me was produced when he was just 18 years old and he went on to become part of the first wave of new playwrights at George Devines Royal Court Theatre. He won the Evening Standard Award in 1979 for Gloo Joo, but remains best known for Tom and Viv, his 1984 play about the poet T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood, first seen at the Royal Court Theatre, adapted into a film, and recently revived at the Almeida Theatre. He also wrote extensively for television and film including The American, starring Diana Rigg, and The Nightcomers, starring Marlon Brando. He also wrote novels, biographies, and libretti.