Summary Of Killing Kennedy By Bill O Reilly

In this Bill O’Reilly book Killing Kennedy, O’Reilly breaks down John Fitzgerald’s rise to political power as president. Part I starts with JFK cheating death. Before Kennedy's presidency, he had already cheated death three times (O’Reilly, Duggard 19). The first time was when he was the skipper of PT boat number 109. He was not paying close enough attention and allowed the Japanese Amagiri to sneak up on him. Kennedy tried to get his craft out of the way but the PT-109 can’t move fast enough and the enemy ship cut through the hull. Kennedy was almost crushed (21). The following ten pages talk about his incredible journey of bringing home those remaining eleven survivors that endured the collision with him. This was a crucial part in JFK’s

On June 2nd, 1962, Oswald made his trek back to America with his five week old baby girl June, his wife Marina, and $435.71 (87). The book goes farther, talking about how the President and Vice President strongly disliked each other, and how Bobby Kennedy liked Lyndon Johnson even less than his brother (99). It mentions the menial tasks that JFK had to endure, and the excruciating pain he went through at times. O’Reilly also talks about how incredibly family oriented JFK was, and he walks us through the death of his Child Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, who lived only 39 hours after a premature birth (198). Martin Luther King Junior was also talked about, and how JFK was torn about the civil rights movement, but ultimately chose to back it (183). O’Reilly doesn’t actually talk about the shooting until near the end of the book. The entire beginning is the build-up, talking about Kennedy and Oswald’s lives and how they both ended up crossing paths on that regretful day. O’Reilly breaks down how it all happened, and provided a map with the route that Kennedy was to follow that day (260). After shooting, Oswald was stopped on the second floor of the school he shot Kennedy from, but was realised quickly because the officer thought he was just another employee (266). O’Reilly breaks down Kennedy’s death by the second, and talks about the various situations that would have kept him from death. If Kennedy had not been wearing a back brace, he most likely would not have died