The vast amount of evidence associated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, an event that occurred more than fifty years ago, is still being collected and examined by a collection of scientists, professional historians and conspiracy theorists. Periodically, through continued developments and improvements in technology, new information is discovered that either relates to an existing theory about the assassination or inspires additional hypotheses about the identity and location of another suspected shooter. According to author Don DeLillo, the immense amount of information relating to the heinous crime committed in Dallas on November 22, 1963 will never lead to or reveal a complete and conclusive version of the event. In his novel Libra, DeLillo acknowledges the impossibility of collecting and studying the extensive evidence of the assassination and how this seemingly inexhaustible process is essentially responsible for creating further doubt and disorder in the case. DeLillo shows the uselessness and futility of obsessively studying information about the assassination through the character of Nicholas Branch. As the CIA's archivist, Branch is solely concerned with trying to uncover and catalog all connections between Lee Harvey Oswald and anyone else who is or may be connected to the murder of President Kennedy. DeLillo notes that Branch, after years of research and document collection, has not even begun to compose the story of the assassination because more and more information is continually being uncovered and sent to him. He writes: “Branch must study everything. He's too involved to be selective... The truth is that he hasn't written much. It has an extensive and overlapping middle of paper because it subscribes to a single version of the incidents that presents itself as a seamless and complete whole in a culture where contradictions increase the more it does so. never finish the research, much less the story” (143). DeLillo is content with not knowing the absolute facts about the Kennedy assassination because he believes it is the search for complete truth that creates uncertainty. His work was not hampered by obsession with the case or by the obligation to discover the truth. However Branch, and those like him, will be trapped in his chamber of chaos, doomed to forever dwell on his theories and forget to live. Works CitedDeLillo, Don. Balance. New York: Penguin Books, 2011. Print. Mott, Christopher M. “Libra and the Subject of History.” Review: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 35.3 (1994): 131-145. Internet. April 18 2014.