As someone who is not familiar with the JFK assassination that happened in the early 1960s, The Housewives Underground by Kaitlyn Tiffany is surprisingly a very good start and not for what you’d first expect. After more than six decades, there are a lot of books on this subject and I’m sure each of them are equally fascinating. What makes this specific book such a joy to read is how it goes over the story of how a few people in the country began doubting the official Warren Report that the government officially put out to help the nation understand the assassination and what actually happened. However, although the critics and doubters of the report were few in the beginning, they ultimately persevered and became something of a phenomenon when they started changing people’s minds about the whole event.

The book goes over three main female characters in the story: Maggie, Shirley and Sylvia. It’s truly and incredible story because we learn that these three woman have absolutely nothing in common and yet in an era without Internet and the sole form of communication were just writing letters and telephone calls, they were able to create a underground network of other critics of the Warren Report. These critics found many cases where the commissioners of the report failed to follow up on many important leads. Rather than actually trying to find a second or third shooter, the report had made it obvious that they were dead set on pinning the murder of JFK solely on Lee Harvey Oswald.

The story also brings into the light a multitude of other colorful characters as well. However, it’s obvious that out of the three, Sylvia gets the most attention due to her unrelenting appetite for the work. Next up would be Shirley and followed up by Maggie. We learn of the mountain of information that these ladies not only had to read and keep up with but also to be able make any sense of it as well as correlating them and how they were different when told in the official Warren Report or even worse, when they were missing altogether. I have not really bad to say about this book. It’s just an incredible non-fiction read into the JFK tragedy and how turbulent the times became in the 60s through the 80s. The fact that three women from across the country with absolutely nothing in common except for their fascination of the assassination were able to ultimately change the course of history is just incredible.