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1) 11/22/63
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of President John F. Kennedy's death, including the days immediately preceding and following the assassination. Through hundreds of interviews, extensive travel, and firsthand observation, and with unique access to the proceedings of the Warren Commission, Manchester...
5) Kennedy through the lens: how photography and television revealed and shaped an extraordinary leader
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A biography that provides insight into how JFK used the new medium of television and the advances in color photography to further his political agenda.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c1983.
Language
English
Description
While much was written in the wake of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President John F. Kennedy, few journalists stopped to ask who Oswald really was, and what was driving him. In Oswald's Game, Davison slices to the core of the man, revealing Oswald's most formative moments, beginning with his days as a difficult but intelligent child. She traces his erratic service in the Marine Corps, his youthful marriage, and the radical interests that...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the moment-to-moment events that transpired in the four days following President John F. Kennedy's assassination, sharing the accounts of top reporters and broadcasters, photos, and archival audio recordings on the accompanying CD.
12) The third bullet
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the events surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy finds Bob Lee Swagger drawing on old records, intelligence archives, and observations at the infamous site to investigate a new clue about a third bullet that mysteriously exploded.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1961
Language
English
Description
A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy. With this narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore White revolutionized the way presidential campaigns are reported. Now back in print, freshly repackaged, and with a new foreword written by Robert Dallek, The Making...
16) John F. Kennedy
Author
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This title will introduce little readers to the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Readers will gather basic, biographical information about Kennedy through easy-to-read, simple text. They'll also love the historical photographs, the More Facts section, and bolded glossary terms. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
17) Dallas 1963
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the radicals, reactionaries, and extremists who turned Dallas into a city infamous for the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Documents the thirty-sixth president's decisions throughout the twenty-four hours following JFK's death, in a narrative account that draws on new archival sources to reveal how Johnson's choices negatively impacted his administration.
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