“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. — Winston Churchill There is history — a chronicle of human events — and then there is perceived history. So often, the two are wildly at odds.

In 1963, a popular Democratic president was assassinated by a Marxist named Lee Harvey Oswald, who had actually defected to the Soviet Union and returned to the United States with a Soviet wife, was an active member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and had attempted to assassinate a right-wing general named Edwin Walker earlier in the year.