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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Jacqueline Kennedy's iconic pink suit becomes entrenched in the world's collective memory for all the wrong reasons, the young Irish immigrant seamstress at New York's Chez Ninon boutique who made it feels her world being torn apart.
44) John F. Kennedy
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the contrast between Kennedy's achievements and his legend, tracing the successes and failures of such events as the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis while exploring the ways in which he reshaped views of the presidency.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, Clint Hill recounts his indelible memories of those five days leading up to, and after, that tragic day in November 1963. Hill, as Jackie's guard, experienced those days firsthand. Alongside the famous photos everyone is familiar with, Hill provides a moment-to-moment narration evoking the feelings and emotions behind the images--clearing up the persistent conspiracy misconceptions...
Author
Publisher
Exposit
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After fifty years as a forensic pathologist, Dr. Cyril Wecht has one case that still keeps him up at night. Since the day that President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Dr. Wecht has earned his reputation as one of the foremost skeptics of the U.S. government's official answer to the death of the 35th president. Dr. Wecht firmly believes that it was not Lee Harvey Oswald who was responsible for the president's death, but rogue elements without...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"As John Kennedy Jr.'s creative director for George magazine, Matt Berman had a wonderfully collaborative and fun-loving relationship with America's favorite son--his story is told here with unprecedented candor and wit. The Kennedys--their poise, the family secrets, and their grace in the face of unimaginable tragedies--have captured the imagination and interest of the public for more than fifty years. Now, colleague and friend of JFK Jr., Matt Berman,...
50) Three bullets
Author
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It was the shot heard around the world. On 22nd November 1963, John F. Kennedy's presidential motorcade rode through Dealey Plaza. He and his wife Jackie greeted the crowds on a glorious Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas. BUT WHAT IF IT MISSED? Mitch Newman is a photojournalist based out of Washington, D.C. His phone never rings. When it does, a voice he hasn't heard in years will tell him his former fiancée Jean has taken her own life. WHEN THE...
51) 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.
52) Jackie & me
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
54) Cold case JFK
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
For decades, the assassination of John F. Kennedy has fueled dark rumors of conspiracies and mishandled evidence. Now, fifty years later, NOVA asks: Could modern investigators do better? See how state-of-the art forensic tools would be applied to the investigation were it to happen today. NOVA also takes a critical look at contemporary cases, like the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, to reveal how charges of evidence mishandling...
55) 11.22.63
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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 who2s trying to reconcile secrets of her own. Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and based upon the bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
President Abraham Lincoln grew up in a one-room log cabin. President John F. Kennedy was raised in the lap of luxury. One was a Republican and one a Democrat. They lived and served a hundred years apart. Yet they had a number of things in common. Some were coincidental: having seven letters in their last names. Some were monumental: Lincoln's support for the abolitionist movement and Kennedy's support for the civil rights movement. They both lost...
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
Twelve
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The family story behind Abraham Zapruder's film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact, told by Zapruder's granddaughter, draws on personal records and previously sealed archive sources to trace the film's role in the media, courts, government, and arts community.
60) Bubba Ho-tep
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the short story by acclaimed author Joe R. Lansdale, this hilarious film follows the attacks of an ancient mummy in an East Texas rest home inhabited by both Elvis Presley and (a black) JFK.
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