The book chronicles several days in late November of 1963, from a small reception the Kennedys hosted in the White House on Wednesday, November 20, the evening before the visit to Dallas, through the flight to Texas, the motorcade, the assassination, the hospital, the airplane journey back to Washington, D.C., and the funeral on Monday, November 25. The book is dedicated: " For all in whose hearts he still lives-a watchman of honor who never sleeps". The book gained public attention before it was published when Kennedy's widow Jacqueline, who had initially asked Manchester to write the book, demanded that the author make changes in the manuscript. The Death of a President: November 20–Novemis historian William Manchester's 1967 account of the assassination of United States President John F.
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