Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination (Hardcover) by Jim Lehrer

from Beamis12

Always, always when we talk of President Kennedy the question arises, "Where were you when he was shot?" I was a little too young to remember this, but I do remember my mom crying, and of course I have seen replays after replays of his assassination. Yet, still I am always tempted to pick you boo...

from Maya47Bob46

Marti Van Walters is a year younger than I was at the time of the Kennedy assassination. High School is an impressionable time and this was, for all of us, an unprecedented and horrific event. Little did we know that this was only the first, that it would be followed by Martin Luther King and Rob...

from Kaysee

Top Down is a novel (novella) based on the life of one of the Secret Services men who were in charge of President Kennedy on that fateful day in Dallas. It is the story of how this man's life changed so horribly in the aftermath of the Kennedy killing because of the guilt this man felt in having ...

from Rbeelee

I'm afraid this was a no winner for me. The author plays with a what if scenario, both re the Kennedy assassination and with the main character's life. Had a hard time finishing it even tho it was a quick read. I kept leaving the book to read other things, and had to force myself back.

from dyarington

I admire Jim Lehrer so it is difficult to review a bad book by him. It really is a less than stellar book and hardly a thriller as advertised.. It is 50 some years since the Kennedy killing and enough is enough. We don't need any fictionalized accounts--please. Even the question about the bubble ...