Jim Reston: And of course when that moment came--no words came to my mouth, and I shook his hand. Because if you've spent that long hating a man--in the end--a kind of relationship develops. An intimacy. Biographer and subject. Assassin and target.

Peter Morgan
About This Quote

The context of this quote, as it is often quoted, is a discussion between two men about the death of President John F. Kennedy. The reporter, journalist and columnist Jim Reston, was questioning the assassination of Kennedy and the man who had masterminded it, Lee Harvey Oswald. The assassination that took place in Dallas, Texas on November 22nd 1963, led to the death of the president and left the country in an emotional vacuum for many weeks.

Source: Frost/Nixon

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