This is the whole book, not an extract. Every claim carries its label : unmarked is established, † disputed, ‡ theory, § reconstructed, and every chapter ends with its own numbered list of sources, which the printed edition leaves out for want of paper.
- Chapters
- 23
- Words
- 97,529
- Sources
- 1,276
- Also as audio
- 10h 42m
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- Part OneThe GroundThe place, measured, and the six seconds that happened on it.
- 1BeforeThe country he flew into, the men he was in the way of, and what was on his mind that morning.23 min
- 2That MorningFort Worth to Dallas, hour by hour, up to the turn onto Elm.13 min
- 3The PlazaA walk through the plaza, how it was built, what stands around it, and the floor he was said to have fired from.17 min
- 4The GroundThe ground itself, measured: what each vantage point could actually see, and what the survey refuses to allow.13 min
- 5How This Was BuiltThe 1964 survey this book is built on, the row in it that is mislabeled, and how to check every number yourself.13 min
- 6The Six SecondsTwelve fifteen to twelve thirty-one. The car, the closest people, the knoll, the frames, and the timing.22 min
- 7The CrowdWho was standing there, what their cameras caught, and the plots that came before Dallas.23 min
- Part TwoWhat FollowedThe weekend, the evidence, the investigations, and what the country made of it.
- 8What Became of ThemThe rest of their lives, Jackie, the agents, the witnesses, and an hour spent with Clint Hill.16 min
- 9The Hours AfterParkland, Air Force One, the arrest, the four notebooks, and what was done to the suspect.21 min
- 10The WeekendJack Ruby, the question of whether the two men knew each other, and four days of television.23 min
- 11The EvidenceThe rifle, the shells, the coupon, the fingerprints, the case against him, and the parts of it that did not hold.24 min
- 12The Body and the FilmThe Zapruder film, the autopsy, the photographs, and what the film actually settles.17 min
- 13The Man They NamedOswald before Dallas: what he believed, the Russians who knew him, the summer in New Orleans, his family.17 min
- 14What the State DidThe commissions, who sat on them, who wrote the theory, and the only trial anybody ever brought.22 min
- 15The MovieWhat Oliver Stone actually made, who it cast, and what it did to the public record.9 min
- 16What Has Legally HappenedNobody was ever tried. Where the evidence legally stands now, and who decides what happens to it.11 min
- Part ThreeThe FilesNinety-four thousand pages, what is in them, and what I think they mean.
- 17Reading the FilesWhat a CIA file physically is, how paper moves through an agency, and how to read one.18 min
- 18What the Release WasThe 2026 release: how it was organized, and what that organization tells you.5 min
- 19What the Files SayBureau sources, the Foreign Liaison Unit, the agency nobody names, and counting the files still invisible.21 min
- 20The Rest of the FilesThe KGB file, what Moscow gave up, the surveillance of a critic, and why a Castro file sits in this collection.13 min
- 21The TheoriesEvery theory, one at a time, the mob, the driver, the confessions, the witnesses who say their statements were changed.30 min
- 22What Is LeftThe building, the plaque, the accounting of what was destroyed, and what outlives the people involved.17 min
- 23What I ThinkWhat I think happened, why, and exactly where I stop.35 min