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In his book Case Closed, Posner contended that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Oswald's assailant, Jack Ruby, acted independently as well.

Case Closed was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for History.

It was also the subject of a double issue of U. S. News and World Report, and featured on programs such as ABC's 20 / 20, CBS Special Reports, and PBS's Frontline.

The book was optioned for a television miniseries by David Wolper.

In his subsequent autobiography ( Producer: A Memoir ), Wolper, the producer of 29 television movies, including the acclaimed miniseries Roots, cited his failure to get Case Closed made into a movie as one of two career disappointments.