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John Jr., nicknamed "John-John" by the press as a child, was born in late November 1960, 17 days after his father was elected. John Jr. died in 1999 when the small plane he was piloting crashed. [417] In August 1963, Jackie gave birth to a son, Patrick. However, he died after two days due to complications from birth. [418]
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 is a 2003 biography of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy (JFK), who was assassinated in 1963. It was written by Bancroft Prize-winning historian Robert Dallek, a prominent History professor at Boston University. The author is a presidential historian who taught at Columbia ...
The book is dedicated: "For all in whose hearts he still lives—a watchman of honor who never sleeps".[1]The book chronicles several days in late November 1963, from a small reception the Kennedys hosted in the White House on Wednesday, November 20, the evening before the visit to Dallas, Texas, through the flight to Texas, the motorcade, the assassination, the hospital, the airplane journey ...
On the 25th anniversary of John's death, JFK Jr: An Intimate Oral Biography offers untold memories, never-before-seen photos, and revelations about John from the people who knew him best.
JFK and the Unspeakable is drawn from many sources, ranging from the Warren Report to works strongly critical of the Warren Report. In his research, Douglass conducted dozens of interviews, synthesized information from the vast assassination literature, and also made use of little-known writings on JFK's presidency and death. [3]
New York Times Book Review (October 22, 2013). Notes that thus far about 40,000 books have been published about JFK. Brandimarte, Cynthia A. "Review: The Sixth Floor: John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation," Journal of American History 78#1 (1991), pp. 268-274 online; Craig, Campbell. "Kennedy's International Legacy, Fifty Years On."
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass is a 2021 documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy directed by Oliver Stone, based on the 1992 non-fiction book Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case by James DiEugenio and on newly declassified evidence about the case.
John F. Kennedy's assassination was the first of four major assassinations during the 1960s, coming two years before the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and five years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. [309] For the public, Kennedy's assassination mythologized him into a heroic figure. [310]