From the Power Elite to the Paranoid Style: How the Assassination of President Kennedy Changed America

In the decades after the Second World War, the United States found itself the mightiest nation the world had ever seen.

On 22 November 1963, many people were already struggling to make sense of where power now lay in America, when the president was shot dead in the street.

Phil Tinline explores how the shock of the assassination brought these anxieties to breaking point, how it laid the ground for the long American agony that followed – and how it still shapes how we think about power, sixty years on.

Phil Tinline is a freelance writer and documentary-maker. Over the course of twenty years working for BBC Radio, he made and presented many acclaimed documentaries about how political history shapes our lives. He has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, BBC History Magazine, Prospect, Unherd, Engelsberg Ideas and The New Statesman.