Many people are very compulsive about the date November 22, 1963, there have even been countless books written about this infamous day full of chaos and fear. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is the most famous assassination in American history, and if not, it is the most famous of the 1960s. I'm sure many are wondering why this matters. That was many years ago and he was a president who didn't have a very long presidency and who had very few in the short time he had. This book is very focused on the story of John F. Kennedy. the assassination and the conspiracy based around his assassination. The author of the book is James Douglass, he was born in 1937. While being an author, he is also a well-known activist with a strong background in Christian theology. Douglass was also a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii. Some say this is where the first protest involving Vietnam originated. This book is probably the most balanced, well-organized, and most recent collection of data I have seen in a Kennedy book, all packed into four hundred short pages that could be compared to books of a thousand to two a thousand pages written by authors who added their own crazy, money-making fantasies instead of using simple facts that were physically collected and not imagined by some who have their own ideals. In this book Douglass highlights why this is important by looking at Kennedy's legacy, like what he did while in office, both good and bad, he also of course talks about the assassination himself. The book is narrated entirely by an American Trappist monk known as Thomas Merton, the book is told through his writings and his own philosophy. The title is deprived of Merton, who was very v...... middle of paper ...... Vietnam was not worth one more American life. Douglass goes on to recount how Kennedy overrode many trigger-happy officials who would have gone to war at any time. Once he started supporting the test ban treaty, it set in stone the type of president he needed to remember. This book, the unspeakable, had a different twist, apart from the classic mystery and conspiracy theory, it makes you realize what JFK did and stood for until the day he died, it hits you when you stop to think about what you have just read. man paid the ultimate price for what he believed in and that was peace. If no one feels grateful, there won't be many books that will. Douglass has about 45 years of research at his disposal and it appears that he tried to use the most credible and well-known sources such as the New York Times. York Times.