Bulletins from Dallas, Bill Sanderson
Bulletins from Dallas, Bill Sanderson
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Bulletins from Dallas
Reporting the JFK Assassination

Author: Bill Sanderson

Narrator: James Foster

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/13/2017


Synopsis

An in-depth look at one of the twentieth century's star reporters and his biggest story.Thanks to one reporter’s skill, we can fix the exact moment on November 22, 1963 when the world stopped and held its breath: At 12:34 p.m. Central Time, UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith broke the news that shots had been fired at President Kennedy's motorcade. Most people think Walter Cronkite was the first to tell America about the assassination. But when Cronkite broke the news on TV, he read from one of Smith’s dispatches. At Parkland Hospital, Smith saw President Kennedy’s blood-soaked body in the back of his limousine before the emergency room attendants arrived. Two hours later, he was one of three journalists to witness President Johnson’s swearing-in aboard Air Force One. Smith rightly won a Pulitzer Prize for the vivid story he wrote for the next day’s morning newspapers.Smith’s scoop is journalism legend. But the full story of how he pulled off the most amazing reportorial coup has never been told. As the top White House reporter of his time, Smith was a bona fide celebrity and even a regular on late-night TV. But he has never been the subject of a biography.With access to a trove of Smith’s personal letters and papers and through interviews with Smith’s family and colleagues, veteran news reporter Bill Sanderson will crack open the legend. Bulletins from Dallas tells for the first time how Smith beat his competition on the story, and shows how the biggest scoop of his career foreshadowed his personal downfall.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Reviews

A really fascinating look at how one of the biggest stories ever was reported. We don't often think about the details of how information gets to the public; we take for granted that someone has a job of informing the world of what is going on, and doing so accurately in moments of chaos and confusio......more

Before I started reading Bulletins from Dallas: Reporting the JFK Assassination, I considered myself fairly well-schooled in the events surrounding that terrible event. What I had never considered (or learned about) is that the reporting of the tragedy is a story in itself. Bulletins tells the story......more

Goodreads review by Roxie

I read this as a book club pick and while I would t have picked it on my own I’ll be forever glad I read it. What I thought was going to be a retelling of JFKs assassination was so much more. It is the story of Merriman “Smitty” Smith, his life and career as a White House journalist. This book paint......more

Goodreads review by Frank

Terrific account of one of history's biggest moments, as the news broke . . . and HOW the news broke. The book is a time capsule, as news now "breaks" via tweets and text messages. "Way back" in 1963, human beings had to find telephones (with wires!) and connect with responsible writers/editors/publ......more

Goodreads review by Ken

A story about old school journalism. About drinking, smoking, poker-playing journalists. Guys who would push each other off a cliff to get the story first. More specifically it’s about Merriman Smith, UPI White House correspondent for 26 years. He covered six Presidents, starting with FDR and ending......more