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Kennedy Assassinated! the World Mourns: A Reporter's Story
Wilborn Hampton
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1:00PM NEWSFLASH...PRESIDENT KENNEDY DEAD. On 22nd November, 1963, the phone rang in the Dallas U.P.I. (United Press International) office. Wilborn Hampton, a cub reporter only months out of college, answered and heard these words: "Three shots were fired at the motorcade!" It was the voice of the senior U.P.I. White House reporter, tailing John F. Kennedy's limousine through the streets of Dallas. The gunshots had been fired at the thirty-fifth President of the United States and Hampton was the first to receive the news. This is his story, a remarkable account of a young man swept into the white-hot core ... Read more
1:00PM NEWSFLASH...PRESIDENT KENNEDY DEAD. On 22nd November, 1963, the phone rang in the Dallas U.P.I. (United Press International) office. Wilborn Hampton, a cub reporter only months out of college, answered and heard these words: "Three shots were fired at the motorcade!" It was the voice of the senior U.P.I. White House reporter, tailing John F. Kennedy's limousine through the streets of Dallas. The gunshots had been fired at the thirty-fifth President of the United States and Hampton was the first to receive the news. This is his story, a remarkable account of a young man swept into the white-hot core ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Walker Books Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780763615642
SKU
KRF0009936
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Wilborn Hampton
Wilborn Hampton was born in Dallas in 1940. Two years after the assassination of President Kennedy he was transferred to the New York U.P.I. office and subsequently assigned to London and Rome as a foreign correspondent. Wilborn Hampton is now an editor at the New York Times and lives in New York City.
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