LIFE The Day Kennedy Died (Life (Life Books))
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Fifty years in the past on November 22, 1963, in Dallas's Dealey Plaza, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty fifth President of the US, was assassinated whereas touring in a motorcade together with his spouse, Jacqueline. LIFE journal, the weekly pictorial chronicle of occasions in America and all through the world, was rapidly on the scene. The Kennedys had been our story: Jack and Jackie made the duvet in his sailboat earlier than they had been married and he was a fresh-faced senator from Massachusetts, and the White Home doorways had remained open to LIFE all through his presidency: Cecil Stoughton's images of Caroline and John-John within the Oval Workplace, Jackie's tour of the renovation, tense behind-the-scenes moments throughout 13 days of the Cuban Missile Disaster — all of this appeared in LIFE. We would have liked to be in Dallas.
The well-known Zapruder movie first appeared in LIFE, after being acquired by LIFE's Richard B. Stolley. Stolley additionally interviewed on the time Dallas police, Kennedy administration officers, members of the Oswald household, employees at Jack Ruby's bar. Jackie's first dialog after the homicide was with Theodore H. White for LIFE, and in it she instructed the American individuals, for the primary time, in regards to the Camelot her late husband had imagined.
All of that’s revisited on this commemorative e book, together with:
The well-known Zapruder movie first appeared in LIFE, after being acquired by LIFE's Richard B. Stolley. Stolley additionally interviewed on the time Dallas police, Kennedy administration officers, members of the Oswald household, employees at Jack Ruby's bar. Jackie's first dialog after the homicide was with Theodore H. White for LIFE, and in it she instructed the American individuals, for the primary time, in regards to the Camelot her late husband had imagined.
All of that’s revisited on this commemorative e book, together with:
- All 486 frames of the Zapruder movie in print for the primary time
- An essay by Richard B. Stolley on how he completely obtained the long-lasting movie for LIFE
- An essay by Abraham Zapruder's granddaughter, Alexandra, who writes for the primary time about how the movie affected her household over the generations
- Private tales about the place they had been after they heard the information from Barbra Streisand, Maya Angelou, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Willie Mays, Sergei Khrushchev, James Earl Jones, John Boehner, Tom Brokaw, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alec Baldwin, Invoice O'Reilly, Dan Somewhat and lots of extra
- Not often seen photographs from the TIME/LIFE archive of Allan Grant's photograph essay of the Oswald household on the night time of the assassination
- A foreword that includes a dialog with historian David McCullough
- A full reprint of LIFE's 1963 situation protecting the tragic occasions in Dallas
- LIFE's Theodore H. White's well-known "Camelot" interview with Jackie (which she gave shortly after the assassination), in addition to the story behind the interview and the phrases that by no means ran
- A brand new essay on 50 years of conspiracy theories by J.I. Baker, creator of The Empty Glass
The Kennedys: A LIFE story for greater than 50 years, and nonetheless in the present day.
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