He wrote in the Introduction to his book: My professional interest in the Kennedy assassination dates back to March 1986 when I was approached by a British production company, London Weekend Television (LWT) to "prosecute" Lee Harvey Oswald as the alleged assassin of President Kennedy in a proposed twenty-one hour television trial to be shown in England and several other countries, including the United States.

Through painstaking and dogged effort, LWT had managed to locate and persuade most of these original key lay witnesses, many of whom had refused to even talk to the media for years, to testify...There would be absolutely no script...and no actors would be used.

Examples similar to Bugliosi’s selective presentation of the bullet evidence abound...His incessant hurling of slurs...inevitably carries a whiff of buffoonery and anxious self-promotion about it.

"[8] Reviewing the book's introduction and sections on Robert F. Kennedy's views of the assassination, David Talbot of Salon, wrote that "Bugliosi is a courtroom lawyer, not a historian or investigative journalist.

He is clearly more interested in arguing his case than in sorting with an open mind through the piles of evidence that have been amassed over the years...Trying to claim the anti-conspiracy corner as his own, he attempts to muscle [earlier author Gerald] Posner off his turf, attacking his fellow conspiracy critic for his distortions and omissions.

In discussing publication of this version in a 2009 interview with Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times, Bugliosi described Reclaiming History as his magnum opus.

[11] Comparing its sales to those for his 1974 bestseller Helter Skelter, he said to Morrison, "if you want to make money, you don't put out a book that weighs 7+1⁄2 pounds and costs $57 and has over 10,000 citations and a million and a half words.

The title refers to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald and years later, Jack Ruby, were taken for treatment before their deaths.