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Title: Day Kennedy Was Shot by JIM BISHOP ISBN: 0-517-43100-9 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: WYSIATI(What you see is all there is)
Comment: I made a terribble mistake : I paid US$ 17 for this book,and it's not worth 17 cents!!!
For the author,What You See Is All There Is!Oswald acted alone,because he wanted to prove something to the world,and Jack Ruby,the mobster,killed Oswald because he felt angry over the President's death,and had pity over the "poor lady with the two poor kids"!Needless to say,the presidential couple was a model of marital harmony,and JFK never knew a woman besides his wife.
This book is pathetic!Anyone can have it from me for one dollar.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gripping account of that fateful day in Dallas.....
Comment: Over the past 40 years, no event in American history has been so scrutinized or conjectured about than the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Millions of words have been written about that tragic day in Dallas: Some point the finger of blame solely at Lee Harvey Oswald, while others weave a confusing web of conspiracy theories that accuse the Mafia, French criminals, Fidel Castro, anti-Castro Cuban exiles and/or militarists in the government who wanted to expand America's role in Vietnam.
One of the best books on the Kennedy assassination is the late Jim Bishop's gripping The Day Kennedy Was Shot, a detailed hour-by-hour account of the events of November 22, 1963, starting with the President's 7:00 AM wake-up at Fort Worth's Hotel Texas and ends 20 hours later in Washington, DC. Bishop follows all the major players -- JFK, Jackie, Lyndon B. Johnson, Oswald, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby -- and eyewitnesses -- Helen Ganss, an elderly Ft. Worth widow who had been allowed to stay at the Hotel Texas even when the other guests were moved out by the Secret Service; Linnie Mae Randall, an Irving, Texas housewife who, while washing the dishes in her kitchen, she "saw Lee Harvey Oswald, bare head down, coming up Fifth Street with a long package in his hand. He held the fat part under his arm; the tapered end was pointing at the sidewalk. The rain didn't seem to bother him. He walked steadily, up Fifth, across the corner lot, toward Mrs. Randall's garage. She kept watching him, a dark, pretty woman with shoulder-length black hair. By rote, she set the dishes upright in the drain."
John F. Kennedy had less than six hours left to live, of course, but while turning the pages of Bishop's 1968 book one feels the tension building up with each seemingly mundane detail (such as Mrs. Randall's dishes). The reader knows that once the President's party leaves the Hotel Texas for Carswell Air Force Base to board Air Force One for that short hop to Love Field, his fate is sealed.
Bishop, working from various sources despite Mrs. Kennedy's attempts to block publication of his book, describes every minute detail of those tragic 20 hours -- from the rainy weather over Texas to the bloodstained pink dress that Jackie Kennedy wore throughout that horrible day -- in crisp and clear prose.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Trip Down Memory
Comment: Since Nov. 1963 thousands of books have been written about the events of the 22nd. Forty years later it's interesting to look back.
In preparation for a trip to Dallas, I read THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SHOT. As the owner of many, many books on JFK and the assassination and a real Kennedy buff, I had a lot to chose from. In fact, I had started Manchester's NOVEMBER 1963.
If you want a real feel for the time period and the chaos of that terrible day in Dallas, I would recommend Bishop. For those of us who loved John Kennedy, it's refreshing to read about JFK with out the comments about his womanizing. You see him as a loving family man with a totally devoted staff. In some respects I probably learned more details that I wanted to know. If you want to read about the autopsy and the embalming and all the minor details of the day, this should be your pick. YOu find that lots of people are shown to clay feet, especially Jackie.
Even if you are a conspiracy buff, it's interesting to see the roots of some of the theories that emerged over the next 40 years. For instance, I found the comments about the relationship between Jackie and Bobbie interesting because some years ago someone alleged that they had an affair after JFK's death.
The descriptions of the blacks in the tale are interesting. Comments are made like "a Negro man..." But this was 1963. I did however think that Bishop glorified JFK's civil rights record.
If you want to feel "The Way We Were" in 1963 and the real personal tradegy of the day read this book. JFK lost his life, but a nation lost its innocence. His staff and cabinet lost a friend and cause. It's excellent background for anyone interested in JFK and his tragic death.
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Title: Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop ISBN: 0517446499 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 22 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop ISBN: 0060608161 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Death of a President: November 20-November 25 by William Manchester ISBN: 0883659565 Publisher: Budget Book Service Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Day Christ Was Born by Jim Bishop ISBN: 0060607947 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 18 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: No More Silence: An Oral History of the Assassination of President Kennedy by Larry A. Sneed ISBN: 1574411489 Publisher: University of North Texas Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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