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our Days in November contains the complete New York Times reportage on the assassination in November 1963 of Pre-sident John F. Kennedy. From Kennedy's death to Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest and murder, to the swearing-in of Lyndon Johnson, to reaction at home and around the world, to the president's funeral, the Times' coverage was arguably the most compendious and revealing of any news organ-ization, tracking every possible angle of the drama that held the nation in stunned thrall for four days. This commemorative volume pro-vides a haunting, first-hand, and detailed chron-ology of the nation's experience as it struggled to compre-hend the unthink-able. With a full introduction by Tom Wicker, who was in Dallas in 1963 and covered the story, Four Days in November will enable readers to relive these unforgettable, shattering days, and will serve as an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to know what it was like, minute by minute, revela-tion by revela-tion, as events unfolded.Semple, Robert B., Jr. is the author of 'Four Days in November The Original Coverage of the John F. Kennedy Assassination', published 2003 under ISBN 9780312321611 and ISBN 0312321619.
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