

Dallek researched JFK for five years, using National Security Archives, oral histories, White House tapes, and medical records in his preparations.

The author is a presidential historian who taught at Columbia University and UCLA prior to accepting his professorial role in Boston, and was the author of nearly two-dozen books. It was written by Bancroft Prize-winning historian Robert Dallek, a prominent History professor at Boston University. Kennedy (JFK), who was assassinated in 1963.

Kennedy, 1917–1963 is a 2003 biography of the 35th president of the United States, John F.
