‘The JFK Conspiracy’: New Light Is Shed on the Assassination

Authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch reveal an assassination plot, even before the president took office.

"The JFK Conspiracy" sheds new information on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The news of an assassination attempt on President-elect John F. Kennedy in December 1960 didn’t make front page headlines. The reason? It was scrapped as the top newspaper story, because the day the story was scheduled to run, two planes collided over New York City, grabbing the attention of the media and the public for days. Within weeks of the JFK incident, “the story basically disappears—from the media and from the public’s consciousness.”

A minute-by-minute account of a little-known plan that took place nearly 65 years ago is chronicled in suspense-thriller style in “The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy—and Why It Failed,” co-authored by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch.

More Secret Service for the Kennedys

Throughout the 63 brief and fast-paced chapters, readers are brought on an exhilarated journey of two worlds. The first world is that of the JFK family, the meeting of Jack and Jackie, and the Kennedy family activities during the pre- and post-election season. It includes the remembrances from the Secret Service agents assigned to the family, and from Clint Hill in particular who, when first given the task of protecting Jackie, was “devastated.”