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Nell Darby

The historian and writer tells us why Anne is her favourite Brontë, and why she wishes we had heard the late Lee Harvey Oswald’s take on the Kennedy assassination

Q If you could turn back the clock, which single event in history would you want to change?

I’d want Jack Ruby kept away from Lee Harvey Oswald, so reporters would have the opportunity to question him about whether he really was the lone shooter who killed John F Kennedy. The fact that Oswald never got his day in court, thanks to Ruby assassinating him in front of the press cameras, has resulted in one of the longest-running conspiracy theories in the Western world.

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