Sadie’s former husband Johnny has taken her hostage and plans to kill her. Jake is about to head out on the day of the attempted assassination of Edwin Walker when the phone rings.

For this reason, Jake decides to observe the Walker assassination attempt, and if Lee Harvey was alone that night, Jake would have the evidence he needs to take Lee Harvey out of the equation. However, he believed that if Lee Harvey was the sole actor on the night of the April 1963 assassination attempt of General Edwin Walker, then it would prove Lee Harvey was also the sole actor in the Kennedy assassination. She breaks up with him, and Jake moves back to the Dallas area to keep a closer eye on Lee Harvey Oswald.Īl was unable to determine if Lee Harvey was the sole shooter in Kennedy’s assassination. However, the lies he is forced to tell and the holes in his past begin to come between him and Sadie. Not long after this, he meets Sadie Dunhill, a recently separated librarian. Jake rents a house in Jodie and takes a job substitute teaching at the local high school. Jake realizes he doesn’t have to live in the Dallas area right away and he drives south, stumbling across a small town, Jodie, which feels like home. He moves on to Dallas, getting a bad feeling from the city. Jake returns to 1958 and drives south, settling in Florida. Upon returning to the future, Jake learns that nothing catastrophic has happened due to the changes he made and decides to go forward with Al’s plan to stop the assassination of President Kennedy. On Halloween night, Jake waits outside the Dunning home and, despite some difficulties, saves the majority of the family. Upon walking through the rabbit-hole for a second time, Jake rents a small apartment in Derry and watches Frank Dunning from a distance. He decides to go back to stop a brutal attack on the Dunning family that took place on Halloween of 1958. Jake insists that they must conduct a test to determine if changing the past will cause catastrophic problems in the future. Unfortunately, as Al watched Lee Harvey Oswald and attempted to determine if he was the lone shooter that fateful day in November of 1963, he developed fatal lung cancer.Īl tells Jake that he wants him to go back and stop the assassination of President Kennedy. He focused on the assassination of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Al realized that a man could change the past with knowledge from 2011 and a portal to 1958. It transports those who enter it to the year 1958. Local diner owner Al Templeton tells him there is a time portal called the rabbit-hole in the storeroom at the back of his diner. Jake Epping is a divorced high school English teacher living in Maine.

This study guide refers to the February 2016 Pocket Books (an imprint of Simon and Schuster Inc.) paperback version of the novel.

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