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Books about the Kennedy assassination in Dallas are usually ventures in liberal catharsis, and Robert Sam Anson’s “They’ve Killed the President!” (Bantam, $2.50) is no exception.

The source of emotional blockage is apparent: To the consternation of all left-thinkers, the officially designated assassin of President Kennedy turned out to be, not some crazed conservative, but a man of the Left. Lee Harvey Oswald, indeed, was pretty much your basic Communist—defector to the Soviet Union, married to the niece of a colonel in the KGB, devotee of Fidel Castro, that sort of thing. Exactly the kind of person, in the liberal scenario, whom we could safely ignore while keeping vigilant watch on the Right.

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Books about the Kennedy assassination in Dallas are usually ventures in liberal catharsis, and Robert Sam Anson’s “They’ve Killed the President!” (Bantam, $2.50) is no exception.

The source of emotional blockage is apparent: To the consternation of all left-thinkers, the officially designated assassin of President Kennedy turned out to be, not some crazed conservative, but a man of the Left. Lee Harvey Oswald, indeed, was pretty much your basic Communist—defector to the Soviet Union, married to the niece of a colonel in the KGB, devotee of Fidel Castro, that sort of thing. Exactly the kind of person, in the liberal scenario, whom we could safely ignore while keeping vigilant watch on the Right.