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3) Parkland
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November) is the exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Releasing this fall, the movie{u2014}starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, and Billy Bob Thornton{u2014}follows a group of individuals making split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event: the doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the chief of the Dallas Secret...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In The Oswalds, Paul Gregory--labeled by Robert Oswald as the 'only' friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his soviet wife Marina--breaks nearly sixty years of silence to reveal how the soul of a killer took shape. Two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, television cameras captured police escorting a suspect into Dallas police headquarters. Meanwhile in the student center at the University of Oklahoma, Gregory scanned the figure...
Author
Publisher
Trine Day
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, Judyth Vary Baker, offers extensive documentation of how she came to be involved in cancer research, and her first-hand experience and love affair with Lee Harvey Oswald. She shows him as an undercover intelligence agent who was framed for the assassination he was trying to prevent, and how he was silenced by his old friend, Jack Ruby.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this noirish mother-son tale playing out across the Wild West of mid-twentieth century America, published on the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination, a critically acclaimed writer investigates the short, troubled life of the ordinary man and his mother who took down the leader of the so-called Free World.
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reimagining of the events surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy finds Bob Lee Swagger drawing on old records, intelligence archives, and observations at the infamous site to investigate a new clue about a third bullet that mysteriously exploded.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of communism. Despite personal and political trials, Kennedy's approval ratings soar. At the same time, JFK acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khruschchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Allen Dulles, director of the CIA. Then, in the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down, resulting in national...
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