End of Days

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

By: James L. Swanson

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

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.

Well Researched

A fantastic book that brings you to that awful day. Although I wasn’t alive on that day, Swanson took me there. The book is filled with details. Especially Oswald’s movements before and after the assassination. Just as good as “Manhunt”

Informative

I was young when this tragedy occurred and have heard many different versions of the sequence of events.
I thought this one was very well done and very much enjoyed the narration by Richard Thomas.

Another Swanson Home Run!

Where does End of Days rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

James Swanson is one of the best writers of history ever. Audible only offers the abridged version of Manhunt, his book about the Lincoln conspiracy and aftermath. I enjoyed the abridged version so much that I purchased the book and read the entire work. Like Manhunt, End of Days was perfect and methodical in analyzing the Kennedy assassination. I learned so much about it, some even in the minutest details Swanson includes. Swanson is a gifted writer and teacher.

What did you like best about this story?

Swanson's methodical attention to details to make the recording a perfect work.

What about Richard Thomas’s performance did you like?

It was very good. Nothing in particular stood out, but his voice kept me interested in listening throughout the entire book.

gets better and better

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

the end.

Any additional comments?

slow at first but really gets better and better, with more new information on interrogation of oswald and an outstanding ending putting the entire assignation in the context of history. one of the best.

Awful. Truly terrible.

Seems like the author did very little original research. Needless imagined melodrama. Seemed like a cut and paste of other, more important works.