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JFK: The Breaking News
A Reporter's Eyewitness Account of the Assassination and It's Aftermath
by Hugh Aynesworth
Hugh Aynesworth, four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, was the only reporter to witness the assassination of President Kennedy, the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the murder of Oswald. Famous among his fellow investigative journalists, he now breaks new stories in the book reporters have asked him to release for decades.
If you thought you knew everything interesting to know about the Kennedy assassination, then think again. Breaking the News is the definitive story of the assassination and its aftermath.
- Eager to appear on top of the JFK story, which Dallas newspaper fooled its readers with a bogus interview with J. Edgar Hoover?
- How did defense attorney Melvin Belli concoct the famous epilepsy defense for Jack Ruby?
- Why didn't the FBI tell the Dallas police that Lee Harvey Oswald worked in a building directly in the path of JFK's motorcade?
- What was New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's secret code and how did his investigators bribe a witness?
The first print reporter to interview Marina Oswald and first to establish her husband's escape route, Aynesworth also uncovered Oswald's Russian diary and was involved in first reporting how the high-profile defector paid a threatening visit to the FBI office in Dallas only days before the assassination.
Breaking the News provides 225 photographs and artifacts from Aynesworth's personal archive, including: his reporter notes the day of the assassination; letters from British philosopher Bertrand Russell; then Congressman Gerald Ford; and the Jack Ruby family.
Author Notes: Four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author, including, The Only Living Witness, the definitive study of serial killer Ted Bundy that the New York Daily News called one of the "ten best true-crime books ever written." Aynesworth is the national correspondent for the Washington Times and was formerly the investigative team leader for ABC's 20/20 and a bureau chief for Newsweek.
"No one - repeat, no one - in America knows
more about the Kennedy assassination"
Michael Ruby, former co-editor
US News & World Report
"Fascinating. . ."
Wall Street Journal
Hardcover, 186 photographs, 263 pages.
ISBN: 09639103-6-1
Price: $27.95
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