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Jim Bishop's trademark suspenseful, hour-by-hour storytelling
style drives this account of an unforgettable day in American
history. Culled from interviews with more than three hundred
individuals, his retelling tracks all the major and minor
characters of that day--JFK, Oswald, Ruby, LBJ, Jackie, and
others--illuminating a human drama that many readers believe they
know well. At once moving and terrifying, and filled with vivid
detail, it delivers the haunting feeling of being there as the
day's events unfolded in both Dallas and Washington.
As gripping as fiction but with a journalist's exacting detail,
The Day Kennedy Was Shot captures the action, mystery, and drama
that unfolded on November 22, 1963.
At seven o'clock on the morning of April 14, 1865, President
Lincoln came out of his bedroom, nodded to the night guard, and
started down the hall to his office. At 7:22 the following morning
Surgeon General Barnes pressed silver coins to his eyelids.
The president's day was, as usual, crammed with meetings and
appointments, but he was probably no busier than John Wilkes Booth,
the man who would stand behind him at Ford's Theatre that evening.
Although the plan had been long in the making, the time and place
were not set until eleven that morning.
The Day Lincoln Was Shot chronicles the movements of these two
men minute by minute until the almost unbearable suspense is
shattered with a single gunshot and a leap to the stage. From a
thousand bits and scraps of information, Jim Bishop has fashioned
an unforgettable tale of tragedy, more gripping than fiction, more
alive than any newspaper account.
A reissue of the classic retelling of the Nativity. "Written with
dignity, unerring taste, and with no straining for
effects."--"Chicago Sunday Tribune"
"This is a book about the most dramatic day in the history of the world, the day on which Jesus of Nazareth died. It opens at 6 P.M.—the beginning of the Hebrew day—with Jesus and ten of the apostles coming through the pass between the Mount of Olives and the Mount of Offense en route to Jerusalem and the Last Supper. It closes at 4 P.M. the following afternoon, when Jesus was taken down from the cross. . . . The fundamental research was done a long time ago by four fine journalists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The rest has been added in bits and pieces from many men whose names span the centuries."—from the Foreword
This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.
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