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Everyone, they say, can remember exaCt'Y Where they were When ‘The great jFK conspiracy novel’ Larry (.‘vlmm Kavanagh'
President Kennedy was shot. ’I‘d Who she? :' - just left school and was working in i " v - 1‘ ~ a grocer’s shop,’ says author Anthony Frewin, whose novel Sixty- Three Closure is further cause for the conspiracy theorists to glance nervously over their shoulders. ’I was absolutely stunned by it,’ he
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Frewin's strongest doubts about , ,,- I; . official accounts of the assassination » .v . centre on 'lone gunman' Lee Harvey :; (; -', , Oswald. In the book, which is set in , -,~. ; .. > I England in 1993, film industry art I I . ,..-_ ,; , . . director Chris Cornwell discovers a I .I I .m ' ' , I set of photographs showing Oswald , I ; , g I I in rural Hertfordshire when he was to 2s< ' ' . , , supposed to be a defector in Russia. - ' .'
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