Best Evidence

David Lifton spent fifteen years investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy and arrived at one of the boldest theories in the literature. He argues that the medical evidence itself was altered, with the president’s body modified between Dallas and the autopsy at Bethesda to disguise the direction of the shots. The book reconstructs the chain of custody hour by hour and interviews the technicians who were in the room. Critics dispute the conclusion, but the research made it a bestseller and a foundational text for assassination researchers.