A Time to Remember (novel)
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A Time to Remember is the last novel by Stanley Shapiro, a time travel thriller about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, published on August 12, 1986, by Random House.
Plot
Still mourning his brother who died in Vietnam, David travels back in time to 1963 to try to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy, to save the president and his brother and all other lives lost in the war. When he gets to 1963, he is unable to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from shooting JFK and is instead arrested himself for the killing.
Reception
A Time to Remember was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Mystery File.
Television film adaptation
It was adapted into a 1990 television film called Running Against Time starring Robert Hays, Catherine Hicks, and Sam Wanamaker and directed by Bruce Seth Green.
Shapiro wrote the teleplay himself (with Robert Glass as co-writer) and it was the last work written by him. Broadcast four months after Shapiro's death in Los Angeles, it was dedicated to his memory.