Libra - Episode Two

For the 100th title to be explored in Opening Lines, John Yorke picks up the 1988 novel Libra by the heavyweight American writer, Don DeLillo.
In this second episode considering the book, he focuses in on the endless conspiracies that surround its central subject - the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Does the fact that DeLillo chooses to feed the conspiracy industry by inserting a second shooter taking aim at Kennedy from the mythic grassy knoll matter, given that this is a work of fiction? Or does DeLillo present a world governed as much by chance and co-incidence as it is by…