Assassination of John F. Kennedy in popular culture

The assassination of John F. Kennedy and the subsequent conspiracy theories surrounding his death have been the topic, referenced, or recreated in popular culture numerous times.

The fictional novel Gideon's March by J. J. Marric, was published in 1962 by Hodder and Stoughton in London, the year before the Kennedy assassination. Inspector George Gideon learns of a plot to assassinate President Kennedy during a state visit to London. The assassination is to take place during a parade, by means of a bomb; the assassin, called O'Hara, is a Southern bigot who hates the President for his Roman Catholic faith and his civil-rights initiatives.

J. G. Ballard wrote a 1967 short-short story titled "The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy considered as a downhill motor race."

The Illuminatus! Trilogy first published in 1975 by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson depicts the assassination scene, with several would-be assassins trying to kill Kennedy simultaneously.

Don DeLillo's 1988 novel Libra is a fictional imagining of the assassination, with Lee Harvey Oswald as the protagonist.

James Ellroy's Underworld USA Trilogy, particularly the 1995 novel American Tabloid, constructs a fictional narrative involving several characters who have part in the Kennedy assassination.

William Harrington (Author)'s 1994 novel Columbo: The Grassy Knoll Lieutenant Columbo solves the Kennedy Assassination after a talk-show host is murdered before and expose.

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