11/22/63 to wait until the Walker attempted assassination before killing Oswald. However, he is unable to learn certain facts and is prevented from accessing several opportunities to kill Oswald. Finally, November 22, 1963 arrives. Jake reaches Oswald's sniper's nest at the Texas School Book Depository mere moments before Kennedy's motorcade drives through Dealey Plaza. Nevertheless, he successfully prevents Oswald from shooting Kennedy. In a rage, Oswald fires at Jake. The shot misses and mortally wounds Sadie, now Jake's fiancée, who had come to help him. The noise of the confrontation draws the attention of the United States Secret Service and police,
Doris Kearns Goodwin of forty-eight times since 1994. Stephen King met with Goodwin while he was writing his novel "11/22/63", due to her being an assistant to Johnson, and King used some of her ideas in the novel on what a worst-case scenario would be like if history had changed. In 2014, Kearns won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for "The Bully Pulpit". It was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist (History, 2013) and a "Christian Science Monitor" 15 best nonfiction (2013). In 2016, she appeared as herself in the fifth episode of "". In 2002, "The Weekly