The Death of a President

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The Death of a President: November 20-November 25 1963 is historian William Manchester's account of the John F. Kennedy assassination. The book became news even before it was published, when Kennedy's widow, who had initially asked Manchester to write the book, demanded that the author make changes in the manuscript.

The book was also criticized for its portrayal of Dallas, the site of the assassination, as a hotbed of right-wing hatred of Kennedy. Some held that the book suggested that right-wing dislike of Kennedy in Dallas was somehow responsible for his assassination, even though his killer, Lee Harvey Oswald was a leftist.

This article is about a book on the Kennedy assassination. For the 2006 British film about a fictional assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush, see Death of a President.