Examines the events leading up to and following the assassination of JFK, as told by Secret Service agents who were there and who have lived with the guilt and grief from that day.
Record details
ISBN:9781439192993 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN:9781439192962 (alk. paper)
ISBN:1439192960 (alk. paper)
Physical Description:xvii, 427 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm print
Edition:First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publisher:New York : Gallery Books, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
On the detail -- The president-elect detail -- The threats -- The advance -- The risks -- The First Lady's detail -- The summer of '63 -- The reelection campaign -- Rising tensions -- Texas -- The final hours -- Seconds in Dallas -- Breakdown -- The unimaginable -- Darkness falls -- No time for tears -- Burial -- The end of Camelot -- The Johnson detail -- The pendulum falls -- The verdict -- Confronting conspiracies -- Clint Hill : witness to history -- Clint Hill : don't call me hero.