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Countdown to Dallas : the incredible coincidences, routines, and blind "luck" that brought John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald together on November 22, 1963 / Paul Brandus.
Traces the background of both John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, discusses Oswald's love of violence and desire for fame, and examines the string of coincidences that saw them cross paths on one fateful day in Dallas.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781637581940 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 341 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Post Hill Press, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-341). |
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| Subject: | Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 > Assassination. Oswald, Lee Harvey. Assassins > Texas > Dallas. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 973.922092 Bra | 31681010330447 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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Traces the background of both John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, discusses Oswald's love of violence and desire for fame, and examines the string of coincidences that saw them cross paths on one fateful day in Dallas. - Simon and Schuster
John F. Kennedyâs fascination with deathâparticularly his ownâand Lee Harvey Oswaldâs love of violence and desire for fame made November 22, 1963 practically inevitable.
With new details from the very latest documents declassified by the CIA and FBI!
The so-called âcrime of the centuryââthe assassination of President John F. Kennedyâwas almost preordained to happen. Like all presidents from decades before him, JFK played it loose with securityâopen cars, Secret Service agents at a distance, and a desire to be seen. Yet conspiracy buffs are certain the security setup on November 22, 1963 was unusual and suspicious. It wasnât.
And what of Lee Harvey Oswald, the drifter, the vicious wife-beating, fame-seeking narcissist? Everything in his backgroundâdating back to his violent, disturbing grade school years, including his stated desire to murder President Dwight Eisenhowerâdefines the real Lee Oswald. The Oswald that conspiracists rarely talk aboutâthe Oswald who was perched in the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as JFK drove byâwas headed for this moment of infamy years before he pulled the trigger.
In Countdown to Dallas, author Paul Brandus tracks the backgrounds of both Kennedy and Oswald, the very different era in which they lived, and the incredible string of circumstances that brought them together for a few fateful moments in Dallas. He reveals:
- There was indeed a second person on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository in the minutes prior to the assassinationâbut itâs not what you think.
- How Oswald REALLY got his job at the Depository.
- The OTHER president that Oswald previously discussed wanting to kill.
- What Oswaldâs favorite TV show and favorite opera reveal about his personality and his willingness to use violence.
- The sinking of the Titanicâand how we process it more than a century laterâis an example of how we continue to process information about the Kennedy assassination.
