The John F. Kennedy assassination has been referenced or recreated in popular culture numerous times.
The novel Gideon's March by J. J. Marric, published in 1962 by Hodder and Stoughton in London, gives an eerily prescient look at the Kennedy assassination. Inspector George Gideon learns of a plot to assassinate President Kennedy during a state visit to London. The assassination is to take place during a parade, by means of a bomb; the assassin i...
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The John F. Kennedy assassination has been referenced or recreated in popular culture numerous times.
The novel Gideon's March by J. J. Marric, published in 1962 by Hodder and Stoughton in London, gives an eerily prescient look at the Kennedy assassination. Inspector George Gideon learns of a plot to assassinate President Kennedy during a state visit to London. The assassination is to take place during a parade, by means of a bomb; the assassin is a Southern bigot who hates the President for his Roman Catholic faith and his civil-rights initiatives. Interestingly, the assassin is given the distinctly Irish name of "O'Hara". The novel's publication a year before the actual assassination is reminiscent of Morgan Robertson's 1898 novel Futility, which depicts the sinking of a massive ocean liner called "Titan" fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic.
Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Dodd, Mead 1980) by Edmund Aubrey, brings the renowned consulting detective (who, by 1963, would have...
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