| Dallas 50 Years on: The Murder of John F. Kennedy Contributor(s): Taylor, Blaine (Author) |
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ISBN: 162545001X ISBN-13: 9781625450012 Publisher: Fonthill Media OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 976 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Locality - Dallas, Texas - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
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| Publisher Description: JFK had won the Presidency in 1960 by a razor thin majority, and his reelection campaign for 1964 was expected to be as close. He began it in November 1963 with a kick-off multi-city, four-day swing across the important state of Texas. It was going unexpectedly well when shots were fired into his triumphant motorcade in downtown Dallas that ripped history apart, changing it forever The assassination of American President John F. Kennedy in 1963 came at the very height of both the Cold War following the Second World War and the Pax Americana that was thought to exist at the war's conclusion in 1945. The United States and its allies possessed a far greater number of nuclear weapons than their Soviet adversaries, but the latter could unleash World War 3 and a nuclear Armageddon that would destroy them all. The sudden and totally unexpected murder in broad daylight in an American city of one of the most popular presidents in history was the murder mystery of the 20th century. The Cold War could have become hot and nuclear within minutes. The murderer had to be found and vital questions had to be answered quickly. Who did it, why and who ordered Kennedy's assassination? Was the deed part of a conspiracy: foreign, domestic or both? Were none of the these questions part of the bloody puzzle and was it entirely possible that only one man was responsible? The questions remain to this very day and Dallas Fifty Years On: The Murder of John F. Kennedy reveals sensational new evidence, eyewitness accounts and top secret documentation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Taylor, Blaine: - Blaine Taylor is the American author of 12 histories on war, politics, automotives, biography, engineering, architecture, medicine, photography, and aviation. The well-read historian is a former Vietnam War soldier and Military Policeman under enemy fire, political and crime newspaper reporter, award-winning medical journalist, international magazine writer, winner of four political campaigns as a press secretary, and a US Congressional aide on Capitol Hill, Washington, 1991-92. |