I Was a VIP on 11/22/63

This novel is a suspenseful story of a presidential assassin based on real life events. We follow the assassin through his diary, letters, radio shows, and descriptions of his actions. Readers can peer into the mind of this assassin and see how he tries to fulfill his goals, despite numerous blockades. The novel is interspersed with extracts from real world leaders adding an opportunity to know more about the thinking of many other people as they discussed real momentous events in the novel.



About the Author



Dr. Diane Holloway Cheney was a psychiatric nurse at Parkland Hospital when President Kennedy was killed. Since she was in training to become a psychologist, she was asked to do the psychological testing on Major General Edwin Walker who would only talk to females. It was to see if he was fit to stand trial. Attorney General Robert Kennedy had ordered him to be tried for strange actions resulting in deaths during opposition to the integration of the University of Mississippi. Black war veteran, James Meredith, was able to integrate and earned a university degree there.

She wrote non-fiction books and three were about the JFK assassination (encouraged by D/FW FBI director James Abbott, because the case was left unsolved by FBI and the Dallas Police Department).



Her work as a psychoanalytic psychologist shifted when she was hired to develop the first assessment center for the Dallas Police Department. Then, Mayor Annette Strauss appointed her as Drug Coordinator for the City of Dallas. She officed at both City Hall and the Dallas Police Department Office, in the office earlier used by Captain Will Fritz to interrogate Oswald for killing the president.



As “Drug Czar”, she had complete access to documents obtained when police raided Oswald and his Russian wife’s living quarters. Ten years of research enriched her works about Oswald.



She belongs to the American Psychological Association, International Association of Police Chiefs, Intelligence National Security Alliance, American Society for Industrial Security, National Association of Social Workers, American Nursing Association, American Medical Writers Association, International Social Science Review, American Film Institute, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and Sundance Institute.