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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
353 pages
Description
Nearly sixty years after his death, JFK still holds an outsize place in the American imagination. While Baby Boomers remember his dazzling presence as president, millennials more likely know him from advertisements for Omega watches or Ray Ban sunglasses. Yet his years in office were marked by more than his style and elegance. His presidency is a story of a fledgling leader forced to meet unprecedented challenges, and to rise above missteps to lead...
4) 11.22.63
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (439 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? James Franco stars as Jake Epping, an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), a resourceful librarian who's trying to reconcile secrets of her own. Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and based upon the bestselling...
Author
Description
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs. " And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected rooms of the White House to their former glory, and through her charm and elegance became a style icon whose influence is still felt even today. Kids will be fascinated...
7) Jackie
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The film places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of A...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 324 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Description
An account of Jack and Jackie Kennedy's final year together reveals details of their complex marriage, including rumored infidelities, the president's hidden medical problems, and the tragic death of their infant son.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxv, 579 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Based on a new documents and interviews, this work is a look at the Berlin Crisis of 1961, with powerful applications for the present. In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War, and more perilous. For the first time in history, American and...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vii, 208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :qbillustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"As John Kennedy Jr.'s creative director for George magazine, Matt Berman had a wonderfully collaborative and fun-loving relationship with America's favorite son--his story is told here with unprecedented candor and wit. The Kennedys--their poise, the family secrets, and their grace in the face of unimaginable tragedies--have captured the imagination and interest of the public for more than fifty years. Now, colleague and friend of JFK Jr., Matt...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (437 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Suspicious about the official story presented by the FBI, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison investigates the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on his own; re-examines various under-reported events of America's modern history.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xvi, 556 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
In this ... memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history.... from the decision to go to the moon to the Cuban Missile Crisis, when JFK requested that the thirty-four-year-old Sorensen draft the key letter to Khrushchev at the most critical point of the world's first nuclear confrontation. After Kennedy was assassinated, Sorensen...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
21 CDs (26 hrs., 31 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Through exhaustive research and newly translated documents, author H.P. Albarelli uncovers and explains the historical roots of state-sponsored assassination, finding disturbing parallels to the assassination of JFK. Albarelli goes beyond conventional JFK assassination theory to piece together the biographies of the lesser-known but instrumental players in the incident, such as Otto Skorzeny, Pierre Lafitte, James Jesus Angleton, Santo Trafficante,...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (170 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November.
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