From Publishers Weekly
"Hampton writes an engrossing blow-by-blow account of November 22,1963, when, as a cub reporter for UPI, he was drafted to cover JFK's assassination," said PW in a Best Books citation. Ages 10-15. (Oct.)n
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--Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.The New York Times Book Review, Russell Freedman
... [a] minute-by-minute chronicle of what happened that momentous afternoon ... as the world reacted with shock and disbelief to word of the President's death. The narrative moves along in partnership with historic news photographs that appear on almost every page. It is an outstanding example of the role that design and illustration play in today's best nonfiction books for children (and) bring(s) a shocking episode in American history vividly alive for a generation that was not yet born.
Ingram
Here is the astonishing story of a cub reporter who was in the Dallas U.P.I. office the day President Kennedy died. His riveting account reveals how he was swept into the white-hot core of a tragedy that would shake the world. It is also the minute-by-minute chronicle of how reporters collected the facts of the major news story of the 20th century.
