On November 22, 1963 the history was altered with the assassination of the vibrant, young, and popular US president John F. Kennedy. The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, took a rifle to a sixth story window and shot the president for reasons still debated today. Author James L. Swanson gives a minute by minute narrative account of the events of the surrounding the assassination and the days that followed. "The President Has Been Shot!" The Assassination of John F. Kennedy keeps the reader riveted.