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Summary: An Amazing Book!
Review: An amazing book that transports those of us not living at the time of the assassination to one of the most significant moments in US history. This book makes you feel like you were there!
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Summary: I Felt Like I Was Living Through This Again
Review: Both newspaper reporters and television newscasters provide the reader with a review of the unforgettable four days in 1963 that jolted America. The book provides a nice mixture of photographs that are embedded into the consciousness of those who lived through this tragedy in addition to a text of newspaper and television reporters who were directly involved in informing the public. I, like other readers, found the book hard to put down, and went through the book in two sessions. Throughout the book it is mentioned how easy it was for reporters to gain access to places in 1963 that increased security would deny them nowadays. Memories will come flooding back to you if you lived through this period of American history. If you were too young to remember, or if you weren't alive at the time, this book, through text of those who reported the event, and the photographs will bring you back to the way it was. A CD accompanies the book narrated by Dan Rather to add to its reality. I would highly recommend this book to you.
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Summary: I couldn't put this book down!
Review: Gripping. Get prepared to be completely transported back to 1963. It is fascinating to re-live the events surrounding JFK's assassination through all the journalists and reporters who had unbelievable access to everyone involved. I couldn't put the book down!
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Summary: President Kennedy Has Been Shot
Review: In the 40 years since his assassination, I have never experienced the kind of breathless, consuming, dark pain that I did when I first heard President Kennedy had been wounded and then assassinated in 1963. In 1963, I was an 8-year-old in third grade. Paging through this book and reading the chronology of events, I faintly experienced the awful echoes of Nov. 22, 1963. The book contains photos I had not previously seen. I've read most everything on the John Kennedy's assassination, but the pages reveal new reflections and memories of people who witnessed events during those four days of death. The CD accompanying this book contains sounds of the day I had read about but had not heard. If you think this book is a light piece and has been published just to capitalize on the 40th Anniversary of John Kennedy's death, you'd be wrong. It's a riveting read and a solid piece of historical reflection. P.S. Beware of feeding the conspiracy industry. It was one mentally ill 24-year-old armed with a gun and fate.
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Summary: With an audio cd with actual broadcasts
Review: On November 22, 1963 President Kennedy was assassinated: this collection of images and memories assembled by Newseum (an interactive museum of news), recounts the four days in November which began with his death and charted the nation's confusion and agony. The addition of an audio cd with actual broadcasts accompanies eyewitness accounts, pictures and a unique 'you are there' impression contributed by the numerous news accounts and stories throughout. An excellent survey.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon horribly changed America than the assassination did. I think this is a good book to read, especially for a new generation of Americans because how their parents reacted to the assassination of President Kennedy was how they reacted to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001. It is important to understand that the appalling events that transfixed the U.S. and world on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, was REALLY shocking than the assassination and horrifying, except that the attacks were seen live on television. I think that none of the scenes from the assassination should be broadcast on television because of the violence we witnessed on September 11, 2001 and the warning by the first lady that televisions be turned off because of the attacks.
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Summary: Incredibly COMPELLING: puts you THERE
Review: There has never been and may never be a book like this one. President Kennedy Has Been Shot combines the best of "oral history" (long-quotes from people who were there rather than a long newsmagazine-style narrative account) plus a pull-out-all-stops CD...that puts you BACK in 1963, even if you weren't born yet. Where was I? I had just finished a (terrible) speech to run (unsuccessfully) for jr high school vice president. I was self-absorbed after my first-ever serious public speech. Right after I spoke a teacher got up and said something, there was a gasp and people filed out to the buses (it was time to go). I asked a teacher what happened and he said the title of this book: "President Kennedy has been shot..." It doesn't matter if you lived through this time or not. The highly-detailed reminiscences plus excerpts from things said at time time -- coupled with the effective use in the book of text of key audio-news tracks on the incredible CD -- make this highly compelling. And you're shoved into 1963, whether you were alive then or not, when you hear the CD's radio and television news bulletins, the shooting of Oswald -- but especially the loud, shocked GASP from the crowd when the Boston Symphony's conductor tells the crowd that the President was assasinated. And then you hear the mournful gasp as he says he will play a funeral march... It's all there in the text and the CD. Including things you didn't know at the time: authentic audio of Lady Bird Johnson's dramatic diary dictations, tapes of private phone calls by Johnson to J Edgar Hoover, Rose Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, and a slew of news correspondents trying to cover a story. In the text you see how they covered it; in the CD you hear how some of them emotionally lost it. This is THE amazingly-priced multimedia packet to get anyone who wants to learn more, recall, or learn for the first time about what happened on that awful Nov. 22, 1963 and on those wrenching days after it. The CD is worth the price of the book and CD; the book is worth the price of the book and CD. I was reluctant to buy this at first. I thought it'd be seriously deficient and not do justice to the man or the tragedy. I was wrong on all counts.
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Summary: Incredibly COMPELLING: puts you THERE
Review: There has never been and may never be a book like this one. President Kennedy Has Been Shot combines the best of "oral history" (long-quotes from people who were there rather than a long newsmagazine-style narrative account) plus a pull-out-all-stops CD...that puts you BACK in 1963, even if you weren't born yet. Where was I? I had just finished a (terrible) speech to run (unsuccessfully) for jr high school vice president. I was self-absorbed after my first-ever serious public speech. Right after I spoke a teacher got up and said something, there was a gasp and people filed out to the buses (it was time to go). I asked a teacher what happened and he said the title of this book: "President Kennedy has been shot..." It doesn't matter if you lived through this time or not. The highly-detailed reminiscences plus excerpts from things said at time time -- coupled with the effective use in the book of text of key audio-news tracks on the incredible CD -- make this highly compelling. And you're shoved into 1963, whether you were alive then or not, when you hear the CD's radio and television news bulletins, the shooting of Oswald -- but especially the loud, shocked GASP from the crowd when the Boston Symphony's conductor tells the crowd that the President was assasinated. And then you hear the mournful gasp as he says he will play a funeral march... It's all there in the text and the CD. Including things you didn't know at the time: authentic audio of Lady Bird Johnson's dramatic diary dictations, tapes of private phone calls by Johnson to J Edgar Hoover, Rose Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, and a slew of news correspondents trying to cover a story. In the text you see how they covered it; in the CD you hear how some of them emotionally lost it. This is THE amazingly-priced multimedia packet to get anyone who wants to learn more, recall, or learn for the first time about what happened on that awful Nov. 22, 1963 and on those wrenching days after it. The CD is worth the price of the book and CD; the book is worth the price of the book and CD. I was reluctant to buy this at first. I thought it'd be seriously deficient and not do justice to the man or the tragedy. I was wrong on all counts.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: You cannot compare the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. I'm not saying one event is more horrible than the other. I'm just saying you cannot compare them. I was a little girl when Kennedy was killed, and I remember how it was. I also remember how I felt on September 11, 2001. I did not feel fear on or after November 22, 1963. I did not feel anger at foreigners, or wonder who or what else was going to be attacked. I and so many millions of Americans just felt shock, horror, and heartbreak for ourselves and for Mrs. Kennedy and her two children. This book would be a good addition to any library on the JFK assassination.
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