Exploring the tale behind the six seconds that broke the back of the American century, Libra combines fact, hypothesis and fiction to portray the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963. Powerful and eerily convincing, it chronicles Lee Harvey Oswalds odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability searching for a role in history. When history presents itself in the form of three disaffected CIA operatives, the scales are irrevocably tipped as Oswald findshimself caught up in events far beyond his control.