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Bulletins from Dallas - Reporting the JFK Assassination (Hardcover)
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An in-depth look at one of the twentieth century's star reporters
and his biggest story. Thanks to one reporter's skill, we can fix
the exact moment on November 22, 1963 when the world stopped and
held its breath: At 12:34 p.m. Central Time, UPI White House
reporter Merriman Smith broke the news that shots had been fired at
President Kennedy's motorcade. Most people think Walter Cronkite
was the first to tell America about the assassination. But when
Cronkite broke the news on TV, he read from one of Smith's
dispatches. At Parkland Hospital, Smith saw President Kennedy's
blood-soaked body in the back of his limousine before the emergency
room attendants arrived. Two hours later, he was one of three
journalists to witness President Johnson's swearing-in aboard Air
Force One. Smith rightly won a Pulitzer Prize for the vivid story
he wrote for the next day's morning newspapers. Smith's scoop is
journalism legend. But the full story of how he pulled off the most
amazing reportorial coup has never been told. As the top White
House reporter of his time, Smith was a bona fide celebrity and
even a regular on late-night TV. But he has never been the subject
of a biography. With access to a trove of Smith's personal letters
and papers and through interviews with Smith's family and
colleagues, veteran news reporter Bill Sanderson will crack open
the legend. Bulletins from Dallas tells for the first time how
Smith beat his competition on the story, and shows how the biggest
scoop of his career foreshadowed his personal downfall. Skyhorse
Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a
broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about
World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK
assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American
Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the
old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a
New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are
committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to
authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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