Who Killed Kennedy (novel)
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
References
Companions of the Doctor
Conflicts (Earth based)
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
- Professor J.P. Kettlewell
- Horatio Chinn
- Group Captain Gilmore
- Rachel Jensen
- Greg Sutton
- Petra Williams
Time technology
Corporations
UNIT and Affliates
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.
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.
- C-19 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).
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
