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Nationally best-selling author Robert Dallek is one of the most respected historians in America. He has won the American Book Award and the Bancroft Prize for his excellent biographies of U.S. presidents. In An Unfinished Life, Dallek offers the first authoritative, single-volume story of the life of John F. Kennedy.
Drawing from an archive of the previously unavailable information, Dallek paints a brilliant portrait of a legendary president who...
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Skyhorse Publishing
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c2011
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North demystifies the most infamous crime of the twentieth century, arguing that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Mafia contract killers hired by Louisiana mob boss Carlos Marcello. Critical characters emerge in the plot to murder JFK: Henry Wade, the long-time district attorney turned corrupt; Lyndon B. Johnson himself, who, while a senator in the 1950s, accepted bribes from the mob; corrupt FBI director J. Edgar Hoover; and...
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
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W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
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This volume recounts the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. It includes information drawn from thousands of hours of research, interviews, as well as the testimony of hundreds of witnesses to the Dallas police, the FBI, the Secret Service, as well as the Warren Commission. The author reconstructs the assassination, giving dates and times, sometimes second by second, to make these real events come...
12) JFK
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Katherine Tegen Books
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c2013
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An illustrated tribute to the 35th president's White House years, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination, offers insight into JFK's cultural significance to everyday Americans.
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2019]
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"Through the lens of their decades-long friendship and including exclusive interviews and details from previously classified documents, noted historian and New York Times bestselling author Steven M. Gillon examines John F. Kennedy Jr.'s life and legacy from before his birth to the day he died. Gillon covers the highs, the lows, and the surprising incidents, viewpoints, and relationships that John never discussed publicly, revealing the full story...
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Many people think Walter Cronkite was the first to report on the shots fired at the Kennedy motorcade on November 22, 1963. But in fact it was UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith. This book tells the story about how Smith managed to pull off one of the most amazing reportorial coups in American history.
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Reevaluates the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history, seeking to explain the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and recreate the heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance.
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Docurama Films
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[2014]
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Veteran police detective Colin McLaren spent four years on the forensic cold-case investigation of JFK's assassination. What he had, and other investigators did not, was modern technology and access to all the evidence, facts and eyewitness testimony. He claims to have solved a crime that is every bit as shocking and incredible today as it was when it happened 50 years ago. A far cry from the fanciful conspiracy theories, McLaren believes he has found...
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