Lee Harvey Oswald: A Far Mean Streak of Independence Brought on by Negleck: A Fa [Paperback]

If Lee Harvey Oswald did it, he could not have done it alone. If he did not, he must be the hit of the century. If he was involved

and somehow double-crossed, alive today must be persons with the guilt of awful silence.



Dallas, Texas. 12.30pm. Friday, 22 November 1963. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. 48 hours later, Lee Harvey Oswald himself was murdered.

Told through the eyes of Oswalds wife and mother, coupled with extracts from the Warren Commissions report, we follow the unsettled drifting life of Lee Harvey Oswald  his loveless marriage to his Russian wife, his challenging relationship with his mother and his pathological hatred of Kennedys life and achievements. Oswald had the means, motive and opportunity, but did he even do it? Could a man who never did anything on his own murder a President?

Michael Hastings (19382011) was the winner of two Emmy Awards, two BAFTAs, the Somerset Maugham Award and was nominated for an Oscar. His first play Don't Destroy Me was produced when he was just 18 years old and he went on to become part of the first wave of new playwrights at George Devine's Royal Court Theatre. He won the Evening Standard Award in 1979 forGloo Joo, but remains best known forTom and Viv, his 1984 play about the poet T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood, first seen at the Royal Court Theatre, adapted into a film, and recently revived at the Almeida Theatre. He also wrote extensively for television and film includingThe American, starring Diana Rigg, andThe Nightcomers, starring Marlon Brando. He also wrote novels, biographies, and libretti.