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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 26
Language
English
Description
A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. A sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she's worked her entire...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this travelogue, journalist Sarah Vowell explores the history of American presidential assassinations. From the Florida Keys all the way to Alaska, Vowell visits assassination sites, museums, prisons, monuments, and even a religious commune. Along the way she shares strange-but-true historical facts -- for instance, did you know that Robert Todd Lincoln, "a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath," was present at several presidential assassinations? -- and offers keen...
Author
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dublin, some years from now, and the President of the United States has just been assassinated during a state dinner in his honour. The official account has already taken hold but a hawk-eyed octogenarian named Monk, believing that there's nothing that cannot be known, has a version of his own -- a dark and twisted tale of both the watcher and the watched.
12) Abraham Lincoln
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
This in-depth documentary explores the death of Abraham Lincoln, the first American president to be assassinated.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and the deceit of Camelot. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xix, 167 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A unique collection of firsthand accounts from the doctors and staff on scene at the hospital where JFK was immediately taken after he was shot. With the help of his former fellow staff members at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Childs recreates the horrific day, from the president's arrival in Dallas to the public announcement of his death. He also offers insights on conspiracy theories revolving around the president's assassination, and recollections...
Author
Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xx, 377 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of Lincoln's assassination: the forty-six stage hands, actors, and theater workers on hand for the bewildering events in the theater that night, and what each of them witnessed in the chaos-streaked hours before John Wilkes Booth was discovered to be the culprit"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
History Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the story of John Wilkes Booth's closest associate prior to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It traces Surratt's worldwide flight from Ford's Theatre to Italy and shows that he was a conspirator who may be the missing link between Jefferson Davis and Lincoln's death. The book culminates in the trial of Surratt after he was brought back to America from Italy and was set free due to the trial ending in a hung jury.--Publisher.
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