Who Killed Kennedy (novel)

Who Killed Kennedy (novel)

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Who Killed Kennedy
Main character(s):	James Stevens
Featuring:	Dodo Chaplet
Main enemy:	The Master
Main setting:	England, circa late 1960s and early 1970s Dallas, Texas: 22nd November, 1963
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writers:	David Bishop (credited as James Stevens and David Bishop)
Release details
Release date:	18th April, 1996
Format:	Paperback Book, 279 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20467-0

Publisher's summary

The shocking secret linking a Time Lord and a President.

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on 22 November, 1963.

Now, the publication of this volume reveals frightening new information about the assassination, the real reasons why the President of the United States had to die and an incredible plan to save the man known as JFK!

These stunning revelations involve an ultra-secret military force disguised as a minor off-shot of the United Nations and an international terrorist leader who has twice brought the world to the brink of nuclear conflict.

For more than three decades the public has been fed lies, half-truths and misinformation. Now despite — government attempts to halt the publication of this volume — the complete, shocking story can be told. Read the book they tried to ban!

Characters

• James Stevens
• Dodo Chaplet
• The Master
• Francis Cleary
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
• Liz Shaw
• The Doctor
• Ogrons
• Professor J.P. Kettlewell
• Mullins
• Sam Seeley
• Ralph Cornish
• Greg Sutton
• Petra Williams
• Isobel Watkins
• Kettering
• Roland Summers
• George Patrick Barnham
• Alastair Fergus
• Gilbert Horner

References

Companions of the Doctor

• Sarah Jane Smith
• Ian Chesterton
• Barbara Chesterton (Barbara Wright)

Earth-based conflicts

• Shoreditch Incident

Individuals

• James Stevens spent time as a journalism teacher and mentored both "Ruby" (by implication Ruby Duvall, though the dates don't match) and Sarah Jane Smith.
• Professor Ralph Cornish
• Horatio Chinn
• Group Captain Gilmore
• Rachel Jensen

Time technology

• Time ring

Corporations

• International Electromatics

UNIT and Affliates

• UNIT
• ICMG
• C19
• Glasshouse

Notes

• Though published by Virgin Books, this novel does not fit into the usual Virgin Missing Adventures or Virgin New Adventures format and stands alone. It relies exclusively on Doctor Who television continuity, though the Glasshouse, which this novel introduced, did get incorporated into the plot of The Scales of Injustice, a Missing Adventure.

• However, the cover has the silver diamond Doctor Who logo usually associated with the Virgin Missing Adventures and is generally grouped together with those novels.

• It credits the fictional James Stevens as David Bishop's co-author for this book.

• The book reveals some of the "in-universe" explanations and cover-ups for alien invasions: for example, incidents like the Auton invasion are covered up as terrorist assaults and the Master (in his "Victor Magister" alias from The Dæmons) is later used as a scapegoat for them all. This leads to some incidents of discontinuity, such as the existence of the War Machines having been covered up despite them being public knowledge in The War Machines.

• As well as a major supporting role for Dodo Chaplet, the novel features cameo appearances by two Doctors and numerous other companions: the Third Doctor, either the Second or Seventh Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Liz Shaw, Jo Grant and Sergeant Benton. Furthermore, the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Susan Foreman, Ben Jackson, Polly Wright, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot, Mike Yates, Sarah Jane Smith, Melanie Bush and Ace are mentioned but do not appear.

Continuity

• Ian and Barbara left the Doctor in DW: The Chase.
• Dodo left the Doctor in DW: The War Machines.
• DW: The Invasion
• The reporter in DW: Spearhead from Space (from the Daily Chronicle) when he was on the phone in the hospital was speaking to James Stevens.
• DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians.
• DW: The Ambassadors of Death.
• Greg Sutton and Petra Williams appeared in DW: Inferno.
• DW: The Dæmons.
• DW: The Sea Devils.
• DW: The Mind of Evil.
• DW: Day of the Daleks.
• DW: The Claws of Axos.
• C19 was first mentioned in DW: Time-Flight.
• DW: Remembrance of the Daleks is when the 'Shoreditch Incident' occured.
• MA: The Scales of Injustice features the 'Glasshouse' a concept introduced in this novel.
• Ruby Duvall first appeared in NA: Iceberg.
• NA: The Dying Days mentions this book, it also attempts to explain why some of the UNIT dating is wrong (it was changed before publication).
• The Ninth Doctor was present at Kennedy's assassination. (DW: Rose)

External links

• Who Killed Kennedy Full text available as an e-book at the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club Webpage
• Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Who Killed Kennedy
• The Discontinuity Guide to: 'Who Killed Kennedy at The Whoniverse