President Kennedy Has Been Shot: Experience the Moment-To-Moment Account of the Four Days That Changed America [Anglais] [Relié]

Combining original interviews with previously available material, this volume by the Newseum (a museum of news sponsored by the Freedom Forum foundation) guides readers through the assassination of John F. Kennedy from his arrival in Dallas the morning of November 22, 1963, to the funeral four days later, including the arrest and murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. The emphasis on how the journalists covering the story perceived it adds an illuminating perspective to well-known events, communicating with immediacy the chaos of the moment. Journalists had to draw on all their resourcefulness to report the story while struggling to maintain their professional distance. The account is filled with fascinating details, from a description of the AP and UPI reporters fighting over a car phone to Dallas reporter Tom Alyca's recollection of staying inside the Texas School Book Depository after investigators closed it off, then smuggling out photos of the shooter's perch. The companion CD includes audio excerpts from radio and TV coverage and snippets of Dallas police communications, radio transmissions between the White House and the airborne, Tokyo-bound press secretary, Pierre Salinger, even a phone call from Lyndon Johnson to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Those who were alive 40 years ago remember the events so clearly because of the journalism commemorated here, but readers of all ages will be moved by the powerful testimony. 120 b&w photos.
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Adult/High School-A powerful, multimedia reliving of Kennedy's assassination, beginning with Air Force One landing at Love Field and ending with the president's internment at Arlington National Cemetery. The commentaries from some of the nation's foremost journalists, including Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, and Walter Cronkite, have a clarity, drama, and intensity that only newsmen of their stature can provide. An audio CD narrated by Rather provides actual news broadcasts, phone calls, police radio transmissions, and aircraft radio communication. The book-CD combination is so well done that many readers will feel as if they have experienced that fateful day.
John Kiefman, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
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Though countless books have been written about the assassination of President Kennedy, few have provided the minute-by-minute details that this volume does. Combining the actual print reports, photos, and broadcasts of journalists on the scene with police-radio transmissions and White House communications, this dramatic re-creation of historic events incorporates both the assassination of JFK and the arrest and subsequent murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Since no comprehensive media chronicle would be complete without sound accompaniment, an audio CD narrated by Dan Rather and containing a series of riveting original broadcasts has been included to round out the entire package. Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, the publication of this stunning print and audio documentary will arouse readers' attention and incite immediate demand. Margaret Flanagan
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Relive the JFK assassination with the accounts of top reporters in text, photos, broadcasts and rare archival audio.

On November 22, 1963, one of the most shocking events in history jolted a nation and signaled the end of an era. President Kennedy Has Been Shot tells the minute-by-minute story of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the dramatic days that followed.

Brought to you by the Newseum, the world’s first interactive museum of news, President Kennedy Has Been Shot recounts those four days in November, including:

--President Kennedy’s assassination and the confusion that followed

--Lee Harvey Oswald’s capture, arrest and murder

--The moving presidential procession and funeral

This book and accompanying audio CD bring you the events as they happened, featuring:

--Remarkable eyewitness accounts of the reporters, photographers and White House staffers who were there

--Stunning and award-winning photos of the tragedy and a nation in grief

--The actual broadcasts that told America the news, plus rarely heard Dallas police-radio transmissions, White House communications and more

President Kennedy Has Been Shot takes you inside one of the country’s defining and most debated moments. Now you can read and listen to the story as it unfolded, filling in parts of the story you may have never heard and re-creating the story for generations to come.

The audio CD included with the book lets you hear:

--The actual broadcasts of the earliest reports of the shooting

--An emotional Walter Cronkite announce the tragic news

--Chilling Dallas police-radio transmissions calling all units to the scene of the assassination

--Dramatic communication between the White House and Air Force One as it races toward Washington with newly sworn-in President Johnson

--Rarely heard phone calls from Johnson to Kennedy family members and government and civic leaders during his first moments in office

--The incredible live broadcast of Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder

Hear the actual broadcasts that shocked a nation and read the story from the vantage of the men and women who chased it down. Experience again, or for the first time, the minute-by-minute story of one of the most important events in American history.

"November 22, 1963 — chaos, confusion and tragedy in Dallas. Yet these journalists were able to get it right — with clarity, intensity and the utmost professionalism." —Tim Russert, NBC News

The Newseum, the world's first interactive museum of news, takes visitors behind the scenes to show how and why news is made. It strives to help the public and news media understand one another better. The Newseum is funded by the Freedom Forum, a non-profit, non-partisan foundation.The Newseum’s President Kennedy Has Been Shot is co-authored by award-winning journalists Cathy Trost and Susan Bennett.

Cathy Trost, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and UPI, is the co-author of the critically acclaimed Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9/11. She was the founding director of the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

Susan Bennett, director of International Exhibits at the Newseum, is a veteran editor and reporter who covered foreign affairs, national politics, and Congress in Washington. She was previously an editor and writer on USA TODAY’s editorial page, national correspondent for Knight-Ridder newspapers, and a bureau chief and state editor for UPI.

We all seem to know exactly where we were and what we were doing when we learned that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. It was a moment seared into memories for a lifetime. For those who reported the shooting and subsequent events to the nation and the world, it was a profoundly transforming experience. This is the story of those who were there, the first witnesses to this infamous piece of history, and how they brought the tragedy to a nation in shock. Here, more than sixty journalistic witnesses describe what they saw, what they learned, and how they reported it. Some would go on to legendary careers—others, indelibly affected, would leave journalism, never to return.

The Kennedy assassination story remains so vivid in the national consciousness, however, because of the work those men and women did under the intense pressure of deadline and the trauma of the tragedy. They left us with words and images so sharp and powerful that remain with us as if we saw and heard it all yesterday—a pained Walter Cronkite choking on the news that the president is dead; the haunting images of the Zapruder film; the crumpling body of Lee Harvey Oswald as he is felled by Jack Ruby’s bullet.

The programs, exhibitions, and publications of the Newseum, the world’s first interactive museum of news, take readers and visitors behind the scenes to explain the news process—the how and why of what journalists do. In this book you will see both the competitive and the compassionate sides of reporters doing a difficult job under difficult circumstances. Journalists typically are forward-looking, anticipating the next story, preparing for the next event. Here, they take a revealing look back at their first rough draft of history and the way they handled a story that would change the nation, themselves, and their profession forever.

Joe Urschel Executive Director and Senior Vice President Newseum