End of Days, James L. Swanson
End of Days, James L. Swanson
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End of Days
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Author: James L. Swanson

Narrator: Richard Thomas

Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/12/2013

Synopsis

Here, for the first time in decades, is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. In End of Days, James Swanson reveals Lee Harvey Oswald's bizarre history of violence and follows John and Jacqueline Kennedy on their fateful Dallas motorcade ride. Swanson takes us to the sixth-floor Texas Book Depository window to look through Oswald's rifle sights, re-creates the last hours of the doomed assassin, and the day of national mourning for the president that followed, culminating in a funeral that united the country. Combining extensive research with his unparalleled storytelling abilities, Swanson turns the events of one of the darkest days of the twentieth century into a pulse-pounding thriller that will remain the definitive account of the assassination for years to come.

About James L. Swanson

James L. Swanson (1959-2025) is the author of the New York Times bestseller Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, which won an Edgar Award and was adapted into an acclaimed Apple TV+ series. His other books include Bloody Crimes: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Chase for Jefferson Davis. Swanson served on the advisory council of the Ford's Theatre Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Campaign and was a member of the advisory committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

About Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas, in addition to his Emmy-award winning work on The Waltons, has starred in well over 40 television series and specials, among them Roots: The Next Generation, Law and Order SVU, and The Practice; he has also starred in numerous classic and contemporary plays around the country and on the London and Broadway stage, most recently in Richard Greenbergs A Naked Girl on the Appian Way.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aaron

Five things about End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James L. Swanson 1. As I writer I do not know how I would feel about someone saying this about me, but Swanson is the master of the assassination book. Given that I am somehow drawn to read about both Lincoln and Kennedy's assassi......more

Goodreads review by Kressel

When I began this book on the JFK assassination, I leaned more toward the conspiracy theories than the lone gunman theory. It’s not that I’m all that informed on any of the particular theories, but my reasoning was two-fold. First, revenge never struck me as a strong enough motive for Jack Ruby to h......more

Goodreads review by Meg

I am a Kennedy assassination junkie--I want to admit that up front. I read this book in a few hours and stayed up to 2 a.m. to do it. Swanson focuses on the lead-up to the assassination by alternating the lives of JFK and Oswald day by day. The details of the actual event and its aftermath are concr......more

Goodreads review by Dennis

Anyone who knows me from the "old days"—IUP days—knows that I could always be called upon to espouse the latest theory on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In those days, books like Six Seconds in Dallas or They've Killed the President lined my book shelves. I've since come to the following conc......more

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