A Novel Based on Actual Events

The Kennedy Box is not another tired exposé about that infamous day in Dallas. Although it uses meticulously researched historical facts regarding the Kennedy assassination as an intriguing backdrop, it is, instead, a fresh and contemporary novel of mystery and suspense, of lies and double-crosses, and of family loyalties carried to the most extreme limits.

 

The story begins in November 1963 when evidence that would indicate foreknowledge of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is hidden away, safe from the intense and invasive probing of the FBI. Within weeks, one of the four men who would be exposed by that evidence would be dead, and the box would be lost even to the other three. They included a Senator with a penchant for high-stakes gambling, an FBI agent given to abusing his authority, and a staid Secret Service agent who had been assigned to LBJ on the day that Kennedy was shot.

 

As part two of the novel opens, it is November of 2008, and the box has been rediscovered by a couple in Arizona who were not even born when JFK was killed. Inside the long-hidden package, a box that once contained an elegant pearl necklace, is an odd collection of seemingly unrelated items. A torn-in-half dollar bill, a spool of fine metal wire, and five pages from a 1963 daily planner with entries written in cryptic shorthand.

 

The young couple manages to crack the daily planner’s code and realizes that they may be in possession of the Holy Grail of Kennedy-philes; the answer to why JFK was killed. But the little box will not give up all of its secrets easily. Some names and details in the planner are just initials and abbreviations, and the amateur sleuths have no idea what the wire and the half dollar bill could mean. They quickly recognize that they need help to fully unravel the riddle.

     

As the story unfolds, the experts they enlist to help, betray the couple’s trust, and what started as an amusing game of solve-the-mystery for the pair suddenly takes a horrifying and potentially deadly turn.