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Documentary Review: 'Peter Jennings Reporting - The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy'

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On the afternoon of November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, the youngest Chief Executive ever elected, was mortally wounded by a series of rifle shots fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas' Dealey Plaza. Within an hour, the President was declared dead at Parkland Hospital, and Lyndon Johnson, having been sworn into office aboard Air Force One, flew back to Washington, D.C. believing the assassination was part of a larger Soviet-led conspiracy to wipe out America's top leaders as a prelude to World War III. Later that afternoon, Dallas police officers arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old ex-Marine and avowed Communist sympathizer who had once defected to the Soviet Union, for the murder of Officer J.D. Tippett. Later it was determined that he was the only employee at the School Book Depository unaccounted for after JFK's shooting, and he became the prime suspect for the murder of the President. Sadly, before Oswald cou...

The Day Kennedy Was Shot: A short book review

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(This review was originally written for Amazon.com in November 2003 by Alex Diaz-Granados...me.  I've altered it slightly to mark the fact that 2013 will be the 50th Anniversary of JFK's assassination.)  Over the past 50 years, no event in American history has been so scrutinized or conjectured about than the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Millions of words have been written about that tragic day in Dallas: Some point the finger of blame solely at Lee Harvey Oswald, while others weave a confusing web of conspiracy theories that accuse the Mafia, French criminals, Fidel Castro, anti-Castro Cuban exiles and/or militarists in the government who wanted to expand America's role in Vietnam.  One of the best books on the Kennedy assassination is the late Jim Bishop's gripping The Day Kennedy Was Shot, a detailed hour-by-hour account of the events of November 22, 1963, starting with the President's 7:00 AM wake-up at Fort Worth's Hotel Texas and ends 20...