The Death of a President

This article is about the book on the Kennedy assassination. For the films, see Death of a President (disambiguation).
The Death of a President: November 20–November 25, 1963
First edition
AuthorWilliam Manchester
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarper & Row
Little, Brown and Company (2013 reissue)
Publication date
1967
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages781 pp (first edition)
OCLC475124
973.922/0924
LC ClassE842.9 .M28 1967a

The Death of a President: November 20–November 25, 1963 is historian William Manchester's 1967 account of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. The book gained public attention before it was published when Kennedy's widow Jacqueline, who had initially asked Manchester to write the book, demanded that the author make changes in the manuscript.