Stephen King's Accidental Conspiracy Theory

Stephen King opens his novel "11/22/63" — billed as an alternate universe reimagining of the John F. Kennedy assassination — with an epigraph from Norman Mailer's "Oswald's Tale." "It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng, and his security," Mailer writes. "If such a non-entity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disproportion engulfs us, and we live in a universe that is absurd."