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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Recounts the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A historical narrative of the events surrounding the death of the 35th president is set against the backdrop of an escalating Cold War and describes the many political challenges Kennedy was facing before his assassination, in an account that also describes Lee Harvey Oswald's story and the events surrounding his death.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nationally best-selling author Robert Dallek is one of the most respected historians in America. He has won the American Book Award and the Bancroft Prize for his excellent biographies of U.S. presidents. In An Unfinished Life, Dallek offers the first authoritative, single-volume story of the life of John F. Kennedy.
Drawing from an archive of the previously unavailable information, Dallek paints a brilliant portrait of a legendary president who...
4) 11/22/63
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco
ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK?
In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture...
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco
ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK?
In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy's change of heart was a direct threat to their...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the Zapruder film. Includes several versions of the film. Includes interviews with Zapruder's business associates, friends, as well as archivists at the National Archives and the photography experts who made the digital replicas of the original film.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this scintillating audiobook from New York Times bestselling author Michelle Gable, listeners are asked to imagine the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark - and the child they may have had.
In 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts to work as a maid for one of the wealthiest families in America. Alicia is at once dazzled by the large and charismatic
11) Oswald's ghost
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A look at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and how many people still believe that there wasn't a lone gunman involved. Features rarely seen archival footage; interviews; government investigations; and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Learn about John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States: explore his privileged childhood and tight-knit family, wartime heroism, and political accomplishments, which began in Congress and eventually led him to the U.S. presidency, the youngest man ever elected to the Oval Office.
16) Parkland
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Takes a look at he various theories that surround the assassination of John Kennedy. The video includes the Zapruder film, interviews with many people who knew and worked with Kennedy, and a variety of rare images including Lyndon Johnson on camera discussing the possibility of a conspiracy. It also attempts to explain the tragedy within the context of the existing U.S. political ans cultural climate, and the global context of the Cold War.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dual portrait of two of America's most popular presidents describes the different ways they grew up, their respective political approaches, the historical events they helped shape, and the things they shared in common.
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