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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) Paperback – May 10, 2016

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A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln.

The basis for the 2013 television movie of the same name starring Rob Lowe as JFK.

More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's
Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy―and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.

In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, powerful elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting the president and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene, only to be caught and shot dead while in police custody.

The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself.
Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader.

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BILL O'REILLY is a trailblazing TV journalist who has experienced unprecedented success on cable news and in writing eighteen national number-one bestselling nonfiction books. There are more than eighteen million books in the Killing series in print. He lives on Long Island.

MARTIN DUGARD is the
New York Times bestselling author of several books of history, among them the Killing series, Into Africa, and Taking Paris. He and his wife live in Southern California.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (May 10, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250092337
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250092335
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.45 x 0.85 x 8.2 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2013
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First, (some personal thoughts and recollections) that day....

November 22, 1963. It was one of those rare days that (unfortunately) get imprinted onto our cogitative memory like 9-11-2001, or myriad other things that for one reason or another we always remember. I have never forgotten that day, nor that moment, (having just returned from lunch with my high school sophomore classmates to Miss Curtis' homeroom and waiting to go to the first afternoon's class) when our principal, John Abbott, came over the intercom with the news from Dallas. I do not believe that any of us actually thought what we were hearing was true. We were young, untouched by any kind of tragedy in our lives, and thus, it had some kind of unreality; difficult for us to absorb. I was left simply not knowing how to act, or react, to this news, and still remember that all I could muster was a smile (to my horror), but truthfully, I did not know how to act or react, nor what I really was feeling at that moment, trying to process something unimaginable to my young self. Much later I would learn that usually response to this sort of thing is either tears or a smile (or something like it) is quite normal. This was the United States, this just couldn't happen here. We were dismissed and I remember the walk home from school, through town, seeing people everywhere, all asking or declaring what had happened, or how, in Texas, so many, many, miles away, just an hour ago. And, then, of course, the uninterrupted broadcasts of never-ending coverage from the saddest possible news and images to scenes of unbelievably and outrage that were still playing out there in Dallas, Texas, throughout that sad weekend.

Time, of course moves on, and with that time, things settle out, become sifted to their proper level of importance or memory to the times. It takes this time for history to sort itself out.

***

"Killing Kennedy" review:

Last year I bought "Killing Lincoln" as I have had a life-long interest in both the man and the Civil War and it's times. Of course, with a lifetime of prior readings and studies, I knew the story inside out (I thought). Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard certainly had to have done their homework very well and have produced one of the finest books I have ever had the pleasure to read about Lincoln and his times. It is a magnificent achievement, and if you have not read it, I heartily recommend it to you for your enlightenment. It moves in real-time and is so clearly written and articulated that you literally feel that you are "there"....which I have never experienced before. That book can be found by clicking this link: 
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

As I was finishing up "Killing Lincoln", I saw the announcement for "Killing Kennedy", and thus since it was relevant to my or "our" time, I pre-ordered it here and awaited its publication and release. Other life obligations prevented my reading it until about two weeks ago, but I must say it, also, is one of the finest-told (presented), in "real-time" again, "endings of Camelot" that I have read, and as with Lincoln/Civil War, I have read many about Kennedy, Cuban Invasion, Missile Crisis, Cold War, etc.

Again, O'Reilly and Dugard have done incredible homework and worked diligently to piece together this riveting account, hour-by-hour, of the assassination there at Dealey Plaza that "last" sunny autumn day of the Kennedy presidency, and the shattering destruction of "Camelot" as we were just coming to know it. The back story is clear and concise, seemingly not too long, but neither short-ended with its presentation of relevant facts, etc. I was quite fascinated by revelations of JFK and Jackie's "private life" in the White House vs. their "public life" that we of course always knew about.

Of course, we all know the story, (again, it seems), intimately from the "over-and-over" of all the intervening years and the countless "theories" that have come about. I greatly admired O'Reilly's avoidance of these theories, directly, in this presentation of this sad and tragic piece of American history. Mention of all those who have been accused over the years of having had a hand in this brutal killing, but O'Reilly leaves that information "just there", which I was pleased and impressed by.

Details, yes, there are myriad details concerning many things that have not been exactly presented in the "full light of day" so to speak, and they speak much here in this fascinating account of Jack, Jackie, Bobby, even the rise of Teddy, and more; --revealing and personal insights into their lives, personal and public, shining new light onto and into their situation during JFK's "reign" as this country's chief executive.

You will get insights into the introductory chapter(s) of the Viet Nam Conflict, the Mafia, Marilyn Monroe, the Lawford's, Onassis (and how he first came into the picture), Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Greta Garbo, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the CIA, the Secret Service, and the police force there in Dallas that day. And, of course, the last character in this story, the strip-joint operator, Jack Ruby. There also are wonderful "afterwards" to all concerned characters here in this "Saddest of Stories".

This, of course, has always been one of the biggest and so-called best stories of the past century, and O'Reilly and Dugard have magnificently re-told it here, enhanced greatly by details and information that we have not previously been exposed to before. Because of the news-coverage and the immediacy of the electronic age that was just coming into being, the notoriety and instantaneous presentation of events, both tragic, horrifying, and ceaselessly amazing to us, the people who either were there that day in person or were there because of television, it will long remain in the memory of the history of the citizens of the `60s and too, the history of this country and of it's leaders and the movement just out of sight of us as ordinary citizens.

This surely is a "must read" book for every person in this country who lived during those days or who is interested in this country's history, both in and of itself, and also of it's leadership over the years. I cannot recommend Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's magnificent presentation to us of "The End of Camelot" (as we knew it) highly enough. You are SURE to love this book!

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The strength of O'Reilly's "Killing Kennedy," like "Killing Lincoln" before it, is its pace and brevity: this is the clipped, streamlined story and lean prose you'd expect from this veteran newsman, unencumbered by lofty rhetoric or inflated opinion. This is the Sergeant Joe Friday in the overstocked shelves of JFK lore: "Just the facts, m'am."

And like its predecessor outlining Lincoln's assassination, by penning such an approachable, easily-read history of the early years of the 1960s - that seminal decade that, when understood, explains so much about America today, O'Reilly touches a much broader audience than the combined reach of weightier tomes, exposing the important chapter of world history in a time when reading has taken an unfortunate back seat to YouTube and video games in a culture all but ignorant of our heritage. So while this is story of Kennedy's death, it cannot be told out of context, which O'Reilly efficiently sets in the events of the day, from the young president's disastrous and ham-fisted "Bay of Pigs" invasion to the other end of the spectrum, where a steely-eyed JFK stares down Soviet tyrant Nikita Khrushchev in a game nuclear holocaust brinkmanship in the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is a period of explosive Civil Rights marches and demonstrations, the early days of the Viet Nam War and the all but forgotten South Vietnamese president-thug Ngo Dinh Diem, of self-emolliating monks, and J. Edgar Hoover honing his now legendary skills of extortion. While O'Reilly's portrait of Kennedy is respectful, giving all due credit for JFK's heroism in WWII, and his bipartisanship and leadership as president, it is hardly fawning adoration. JFK's many dalliances - Marilyn Monroe only one conquest of a myriad - his connections with mobsters, mistrust of VP Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King, and various missteps add balance to a man all too easily martyred. If O'Reilly was smitten by any of the players, it is certainly Jackie, who emerges as a doting mother with a steel spine; a steadfast and loving companion hurt by her husband's infidelity, but willing to look the other way.

The profile of the infamous Lee Harvey Oswald is worth mentioning. Much has been written about Oswald's connections with shadowy figures like George de Mohrenschildt, and Oswald's failed attempted murder of right-winger Ted Walker, which get only a passing mention here. But since O'Reilly essentially dismisses five decades of conspiracy theory speculation - one can assume that O'Reilly's dismissive treatment of Oswald is wholly intentional - a conscious ploy to insure this miscreant is never given credit for being anything other than a misguided and deranged murderer. Unlike the well organized conspiracy crafted by John Wilkes Booth nearly a century earlier, O'Reilly is firmly in the camp, as am I, that JFK was the victim of the lucky shot of a single madman acting alone.

In short, a vigorous and wholly engaging read - a great example of history the way it ought to be told. Even if you think you already know this story, you'll do yourself a disservice by not hearing O'Reilly's take on this remarkable man in a fascinating slice of Americana. Bravo Zulu!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024
I like that the author was able to put a lot of information into a fairly easy to read book. There is a lot of JFK's background and history that I hadn't been aware of before reading. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys history, especially American history.

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Dingemanse
3.0 out of 5 stars Bit disappointing
Reviewed in the Netherlands on October 27, 2020
I like the series al lot but this one was below par. Ending almost every charter with his countdown to the murder was annoying. Oswald is quite a flat character and his motive is not very believable in my view.
Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for political views
Reviewed in India on October 23, 2020
Great book.. gives a complete background on the mysterious death of Kennedy.. but still remains retains the mystery..
Cliente Kindle
5.0 out of 5 stars 1000 dias
Reviewed in Brazil on February 20, 2018
Um excelente livro sobre os mil dias da presidência Kennedy, com maestria e elegância, é comentado sobre a administração breve, porém, que foi o embrião de grandes desdobramentos da vida política americana, como a Guerra do Vietnã, os movimentos civis e a chegada do homem à Lua.
DA
5.0 out of 5 stars I really like the style of the "Killing of" series
Reviewed in Canada on January 20, 2015
I really like the style of the "Killing of" series. I particularly enjoy the directness of the book - no hinting around about controversial segments of a great Presidents life. A very good read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Applause for Bill O'Reilly
Reviewed in Germany on January 11, 2014
Since I am not a fan of Fox News and certainly not of Bill O'Reilly, a positive review of his book by me is doubly positive. I was fascinated by the deep research that preceded the writing of this book, by the facts, largely known, but very well presented, and the easily readable style of writing.