A picture from a civil rights parade brings Lisa back to Texas after years apart from her father, a former FBI agent who helped investigate the shooting of JFK. When Lisa was just four years old in 1965, her father took her to the parade while he was off-duty. She sat next to another little girl who happened to be African American and attending the parade with her mother. As Lisa's father started taking pictures of them, shots rang out and the main speaker, Benjamin Gray, fell to the ground. Lisa's memories of that day are hazy, but when her father calls her to come help him free the man he thinks was falsely convicted of the shooting and now scheduled to be executed, she goes home to see what she can do to help. The mystery they uncover leads them to a dangerous cover-up.
Based on a picture taken by the author's father, Wiehl has woven a intricate story of a fictional shooting with the real-life events of the time period. Wiehl's father is also a retired FBI agent who investigated the Kennedy shooting. He consulted with Bill O'Reilly for O'Reilly's book, Killing Kennedy. The book includes an author's note, an interview with Richard L. Wiehl and two essays: one by O'Reilly and another by Juan Williams. An interesting read, but ultimately, I was hoping for something more intricate and in depth about race relations in America.
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