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1) 11/22/63
Author
Language
English
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
A historical narrative of the events surrounding the death of the 35th president is set against the backdrop of an escalating Cold War and describes the many political challenges Kennedy was facing before his assassination, in an account that also describes Lee Harvey Oswald's story and the events surrounding his death.
4) The 9th man
Author
Series
Luke Daniels thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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 to Belgium, Luke quickly finds that she was right. A shadow team of highly trained operatives is there on the hunt. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides--one seeking...
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Phil Shenon writes the ultimate inside account of what has become the most controversial murder investigation of the 20th century, the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Based on groundbreaking research, deep reporting, and unprecedented access, the book is character driven, dialogue rich, with facts and incidents that will stun and surprise.
13) Love Field
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Lurene Hallett, a Dallas housewife obsessed with the lives of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, sets out by bus to attend the funeral of the president. Along the way she befriends an African American man and his daughter. Lurene's well intentioned meddling causes the three to flee the police and her husband on their way to Washington.
14) Parkland
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
Series
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Forty years after he was fatally shot, more than 80 percent of Americans still believe there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy and that the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, did not act alone. ABC News showcases a three-dimensional, computer-generated reconstruction of the assassination, more than 70 interviews, and some of the more than four million documents related to the death to prove that theories of a conspiracy are unfounded.
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.
18) Libra
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are...
Publisher
National Geographic Channel
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Reveals rarely seen archival footage that has been digitally captured and assembled into a detailed timeline. Included is footage capturing the real-time horror of parade-goers who witnessed the killing, the out-of-breath local anchors reporting the breaking news bulletin, the priest who describes administering the president's last rites and the ongoing, on-air speculation over who fired the fatal shots. Includes news footage, radio reports, audio...
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