Libra: Don DeLillo

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Libra is a gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, laying bare the wounded American psyche and the dark events that still torment it. The Warren Commission found that Oswald acted alone, while the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Kennedy's assassination was likely the result of a conspiracy. The Oswald shadings, the multiple images, the split perceptions – eye color, weapons caliber – these seem a foreboding of what is to come.

Oswald goes to a movie theater where the CIA conspiracy had planned to have him killed, but before they can do so he is apprehended by the Dallas police. After dark the stillness falls, the hour of withdrawal, houses in shadow, the street a private place, a set of mysteries. Although he is consistently a peon, he maintains the ability to surprise and to approach cult status; he’s never at the point of “loved to hate”.But a lone misfit crouching in a high place with a gun and – suddenly, horribly, irrevocably – changing the course of history? the death of lee harvey oswald is a harrowing, moving experience, the best sequence of many excellent sequences in the book. According to DeLillo, the scale also hints at how "a man could tip either way" with regard to committing the ultimate crime, [1] and suggests a man torn between conflicting ideas and impulses, exemplified by the tension between his service in the United States military and his communist beliefs.

He and a fellow serviceman in Dallas attempt to assassinate the radical, right-wing General Walker, whom they believe is a threat to the country.to leave a dinner by consistently turning the conversation with lines like "you can't seriously believe the Warren Commission?