*Kennedy Assassinated! the World Mourns: A Reporter's Story
(Paperback) *
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**New York Times* editor Wilborn Hampton was a cub reporter in UPI's Dallas
office at the time of President Kennedy's assassination and the first person
there to receive the news. In *Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns, *Hampton
provides a riveting moment-by-moment account of this historic day, adeptly
capturing the history and meaning of the fateful event. "An entire
generation that was not even born when those shots were fired in Dallas has
now reached adulthood," Hampton explains. "It seemed time for me to attempt
to put on paper, from my limited view in the eye of the swirl of history,
what a sense of loss that day brought to those of us who were then young
adults."
When Hampton answered the phone at UPI, he was a few months out of college
and was mostly trying to stay out of the way of the various reporters who
were covering Kennedy's visit to Dallas. "Three shots were fired at the
motorcade!" were the words he heard on the other end of the receiver from
the senior UPI White House reporter who was tailing the President's
limousine through the streets of Dallas. Hampton immediately typed the
bulletin that then appeared on the wire. From that moment he was drawn into
the white-hot core of a tragedy that would shake the world, reporting from
the hospital as they announced the death of President Kennedy and from the
Dallas police headquarters as they questioned Lee Harvey Oswald.
In addition to providing a fascinating account of his own experiences,
Hampton presents a dramatic inside look at how reporters chronicled the news
story as it was breaking. Complete with well-researched, relevant pictures,
*Kennedy Assassinated!* offers additional perspective and meaning to the
shock, grief, and loss every American felt that day. Includes B&W photos.
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