Larry Parmenter, T-Jay Mackey, and Walter “Win” Everett, Jr. Dilillo attempts to give a unique perspective to an event that has been forever analyzed by presenting Oswald through an unfamiliar sympathetic lens. The conspirators are unaware that the president will die that day in Dallas, and Oswald is not aware that he is not the only shooter until the moment he witnesses the assassination of the president while peering through the scope of his rifle. Oswald is shown as being used in a plot designed to make it look as if Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is plotting to kill John F. He had a troubled childhood and was involved with communism, and was thus perceived as being against the American government. Oswald is presented as a confused figure being used by three CIA agents who are upset over the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Delillo presents the Kennedy assassination as a plot by former members of the CIA to prompt the government into war with Cuba. He soon returns to the United States and ultimately takes his infamous place in history. Later, Oswald defects to the Soviet Union and marries a Russian woman. The narrative begins with the early childhood of Oswald and his time in the United States Marine Corps. The book won The Irish Times’ first International Fiction Prize. Included in the story is a speculative account of the assassination of President Kennedy. Libra is a 1988 novel by Don Delillo that tells of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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