The second assassin of John F. Kennedy – the CIA sniper of urban legend - decides to move from rumor and speculation into reality.
Taking inspiration from the blend of fact and fiction in The Da Vinci Code, The Small Glass Window tells how Frank Crawford – a.k.a. Ron Mitchell – is an eighty-year old shipping clerk living a quiet life on Chicago’s north side. He’s friendly with the local policemen, and especially detective Bill Waldron. On a hot August day Crawford decides to finally tell someone the truth about his life, and he chooses Bill as his confessor. In the course of the next several hours we learn about Crawford’s experience as an army sniper, a Cold War CIA assassin, and as the man who fired the fatal head shot in Dealey Plaza on November 22 1963.
I’ve taken an actual historical situation and then fictionalized one aspect of it. I am not a conspiracy theorist - I have no desire to prove that Frank Crawford or anyone like him actually exists. And so The Small Glass Window doesn’t try to answer every question or reconcile every inconsistency in the Kennedy assassination saga, but simply tells a fascinating story. The full manuscript is 298 pages long and 63540 words.