Set on November 22, 1963, this chapter explores the experience of some of the book’s characters on the day when President Kennedy is assassinated. The cover of Sports Illustrated, which arrives in subscribers’ mailboxes that day, features Chicago Bears running back Willie Galimore, a native of St. Augustine. The same day an FBI memo discusses a bounty being put on the life of Robert Hayling. We also see a number of individuals reacting to the grim news from Dallas, including Irv Cheney in Daytona Beach, Kathy Fentress at Duke University, and Marshall Bloom at Amherst College. John Herbers is sent by the Times to Dallas. Martin Luther King tells Coretta that he expects to face a similar fate to Kennedy.