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Author
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.
2) The 9th man
Author
Series
Luke Daniels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke's help. Immediately. Racing toBelgium Luke quickly finds that she was right. A shadow team of highly-trained operatives are there on the hunt. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides - one seeking...
4) JFK
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film explores Kennedy's childhood years as the privileged but sickly son of one of the wealthiest men in America, his early political career as a lackluster congressman, his successful run for the U.S. Senate, and the game-changing presidential campaign that made him the youngest elected president in U.S. history.
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Description
Swagger becomes interested in exploring JFK's assassination, asking questions few have asked before.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xlvi, 1612 p., [32] p. of plates ; ill. ; 27 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Description
"Polls reveal that over 75 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald; some even believe Oswald was entirely innocent. In this absorbing and historic book--the first ever to cover the entire case--Vincent Bugliosi shows how we have come to believe such lies about an event that changed the course of history. Bugliosi is perhaps the only man in America capable of 'prosecuting' Oswald for the murder of President Kennedy....
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
xviii, 349 pages ; 24 cm
Description
The former governor of Minnesota teams up with a successful author and some of the most respected and influential assassination researchers to provide all the conspiracy angles of this notable event in American history.
Author
Series
Senate document volume 88th Congress, no. 59
Pub. Date
1964
Physical Desc
911 p. : port.
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xvii, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 2 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
A uniquely unscripted, insider account of Kennedy and his cabinet grappling with the day-to-day business of the White House and guiding the nation through a hazardous era of uncertainty. Features extensively annotated transcripts of the recordings and a foreword by Caroline Kennedy.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xv, 352 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
Details the life of John F. Kennedy, Jr., assessing his definitive relationships with his mother and other women while chronicling the aftermath of his early death.
13) 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...
14) Executive action
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Who killed President Kennedy? Mixing narrative sements with newsreel footage, the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; cm
Description
"Patrick J. Sloyan, a young wire-service reporter during the Kennedy administration, revisits the last year of JFK?s presidency to reveal a ruthless politician. As the president prepared for his 1964 reelection bid that never was, he buried the truth and manipulated public opinion. Using Kennedy?s secret recordings of crucial White House meetings and interviews with key inside players, Sloyan reveals: President Kennedy?s complicity in the overthrow...
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...
18) Jackie & me
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. Her mission in life is “not to be a housewife,” but when she meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a Georgetown party, her resolution begins to falter. Soon the two are flirting over secret phone calls, cocktails, and dinner dates, and as Jackie is drawn deeper into the Kennedy orbit, and as Jack himself grows increasingly...
19) Dallas 1963
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
Presents an account of the radicals, reactionaries, and extremists who turned Dallas into a city infamous for the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
493 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, photographs ; 28 cm
Description
JFK brings together in one volume John F. Kennedy?s greatest speeches alongside essays by America?s top historians, analysis from leading political thinkers, and personal insights from preeminent writers and artists. Here is JFK at his best?thought-provoking, inspiring, eloquent, and wise?on a number of wide-ranging topics, including civil rights, the race to the moon, the environment, immigration, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and much more. JFK demonstrates...
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