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Kennedy Assassinated! the World Mourns

A Reporter's Story

by Wilborn R. Hampton
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The astonishing story of a cub reporter who was there on the day that the President died.
On November 22, 1963, the phone rang in the Dallas U.P.I. office. Wilborn Hampton, a cub reporter, answered and heard these words: "Three shots fired!" It was the voice of the U.P.I. White House reporter. The gunshots had been fired at President Kennedy—and young Hampton was the first to receive the news. This is his story, a riveting account of a young man swept into the white-hot core of a tragedy that would shake the world. It is also a minute-by-minute chronicle of how reporters collected the facts of the major news story of the twentieth century. Kennedy Assassinated! will leave readers with an unforgettable sense of the shock, grief, and enduring loss that every American experienced that day.
Back matter includes a bibliography and an index.

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  • Release date

    November 1, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780763670191

    • PDF ebook

      • ISBN: 9780763670191
      • File size: 56818 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 6.6
    • Lexile® Measure: 1040
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 5-8

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 12, 2001
      "Hampton writes an engrossing blow-by-blow account of November 22, 1963, when, as a cub reporter for UPI, he was drafted to cover JFK's assassination," said PW
      in a Best Books citation. Ages 10-15.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 1, 1997
      Hampton, an editor at the New York Times, was working as a cub reporter for the UPI office in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and gives a unique view of President Kennedy's assassination and the days that followed. His taut narrative is absorbing enough to keep pages turning, but readers will want to pause from time to time to scrutinize the now famous photographs--of the motorcade, Johnson's hurried inauguration, JFK's funeral and Oswald's execution--which are strategically placed throughout the volume. In addition to the larger events surrounding Kennedy's death, Hampton details how journalists uncovered and passed along the facts of the unfolding drama, each racing to scoop the other. He evokes the excitement undercut by the grief which permeated the newsroom and explains how his own involvement with the story "changed the direction" of his life and career. While information is presented in an objective, journalistic manner, the newsman's personal responses to the tragedy are charged with emotion: "President Kennedy was dead. I stopped by a giant live oak tree on that vast front lawn of Parkland Hospital and cried." Hampton directs his writing toward the younger set, yet parents and grandparents who remember the assassination as a "benchmark in their lives" may want first crack at this riveting you-are-there reenactment. Ages 10-15.

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • PDF ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:6.6
  • Lexile® Measure:1040
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:5-8

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