Analyzing the Evidence: Luis Alvarez and the Science of the Kennedy Assassination

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Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs by acclaimed biographer Alec Nevala-Lee, is the story of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Luis Alvarez and his decade-long scientific study of the Kennedy assassination. Alvarez worked to apply physics to the evidence collected during the investigation of the assassination, including the Abraham Zapruder film and the Dallas police audio recordings examined by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Join Nevala-Lee for a conversation with Stephen Fagin, Head of Curatorial at The Sixth Floor Museum. This program offers an interesting look at the valuable and controversial role of science in understanding the events of November 22, 1963. Book signing will immediately follow the program. Does not include Museum admission. Museum members receive discounted ticket pricing. Contact membership@jfk.org to learn more. PURCHASE TICKETS AbOUT THE author: He was a Hugo and Locus Award finalist for the group biography Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Dey Street / HarperCollins), which was named one of the best books of 2018 by The Economist. His biography Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller, which was released by Dey Street / HarperCollins in 2022, was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, an Economist best book of the year, and one of Esquire‘s fifty best biographies of all time. Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey From Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs (W. W. Norton), his biography of Luis W. Alvarez, was an Economist Best Book of 2025. His essays, reviews, and nonfiction have been featured in print and online in the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Salon, The Rumpus, Gizmodo, Fast Company, Public Books, Asterisk, The Skeptical Inquirer, and The Daily Beast. On the fiction side, his novels include the thrillers The Icon…

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