Had Oswald been alone when he tried to shoot Walker, Jake would have been fairly certain he was alone in his plans to assassinate Kennedy. This woman turned out to be a distraction for Jake she was attacked by her ex-husband on the same day Jake was supposed to be watching Oswald to see if he acted alone when he attempted to kill General Walker. While biding his time in Texas, spying on Lee Harvey Oswald and waiting for the date of Kennedy’s assassination, Jake fell in love with a woman named Sadie.

That manuscript is purported to be this novel. He began writing a book about his time in the past. He got a diploma from a certificate mill so that he could work as a substitute teacher and put in bets on sporting events to earn money. During the years 19, when the president was to be killed, Jake stayed busy in various ways. Jake was uncertain about the benefits of changing the past when he learned that he saved Harry from having a bad leg so that he could get killed in Vietnam.īecause Al sensed that Jake was having second thoughts about saving Kennedy, Al overdosed on his pain medication, forcing Jake to make the decision to save Kennedy. Jake wanted to know what would happen in 2011 if he managed to save Harry’s family and keep Harry from getting hurt. As a teacher, Jake worked with Harry Dunning, a man who had been badly injured when his father killed his family with a hammer. Jake agreed to consider taking over Al’s project of keeping Kennedy from getting assassinated if he could first do a test run with the Dunning family. Al contracted lung cancer and knew that he would not live long enough to achieve his goal alone. The rabbit hole dropped anyone who traveled through it to that exact spot in 1958. Jake was recruited by his friend, Al, who wanted to stop Kennedy’s assassination with a time travel portal in his diner known as the rabbit hole. The main character, Jake, narrates the story in first person. The novel 11/22/63 by Stephen King imagines what might have happened had United States President John F.

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