"This was my first magazine article. It was October 1966, my book Inquest on the Warren Commission had just been published and I was still at Harvard. John Berendt, then an editor of Esquire, called and commissioned me to write a short article on the Warren Commission. But when I turned it in he pointed out that I had nothing about who actually had killed President John F. Kennedy. I said, “But there are dozens of theories.” He answered “list them. We’ll do a chart.” So began my taxonomy of the theories that was published in a multi-colored chart in Esquire in December 1966. Although theories continued to proliferate in the last four decades. I think this list suffices.
"This was my first magazine article. It was October 1966, my book Inquest on the Warren Commission had just been published and I was still at Harvard. John Berendt, then an editor of Esquire, called and commissioned me to write a short article on the Warren Commission. But when I turned it in he pointed out that I had nothing about who actually had killed President John F. Kennedy. I said, “But there are dozens of theories.” He answered “list them. We’ll do a chart.” So began my taxonomy of the theories that was published in a multi-colored chart in Esquire in December 1966. Although theories continued to proliferate in the last four decades. I think this list suffices.