What is Libra Trying to tell us?
After finishing Libra , I found that the book (ironically) doesn’t really care that much about actually solving the mystery that is the Kennedy assassination. Rather, it delved much deeper into what the assassination means, how it became more than just an interesting story, but a phenomenon in the conspiracy theory world, and a craze that is still ripe today. The assassination is not just described as a turning point in history, but rather as the intersection between reality and fiction. Nicholas Branch, the CIA historian who is trying to reconstruct the event, at the end of the novel starts to realize that all the facts don’t lead to a clear path, but rather even more confusion. With every piece of evidence, a new narrative seems to be pushed, rather than staying on track. But maybe that is the whole point? Lee Harvey Oswald in the book isn’t portrayed as the clear villain in the story. Delilio takes a different approach, in a way humanizing Oswald to the reader, as a man who is...