For Alison, Andy Parker
For Alison, Andy Parker
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For Alison
The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father's Fight for Gun Safety

Author: Andy Parker, Ben R. Williams, Senator Tim Kaine

Narrator: Andy Parker, Keith Sellon-Wright

Unabridged: 10 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/20/2019

Synopsis

On August 26, 2015, Emmy Award–winning twenty-four-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television, along with her colleague, photojournalist Adam Ward. Their interviewee was also shot but survived.

In the wake of his daughter's murder, Andy Parker became a national advocate for commonsense gun safety legislation. The night of the murder, with his emotions still raw, he went on Fox News and vowed to do "whatever it takes" to end gun violence in America. Today he is a media go-to each time a shooting rocks the national consciousness, and has worked with a range of other crusaders, like Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Lenny Pozner, whose son was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School and brought suit against Alex Jones and Infowars, who claimed the shooting was staged. In For Alison, Parker shares his work as a powerhouse battling gun violence and gives a plan for commonsense gun legislation that all sides should agree on. He calls out the NRA-backed politicians blocking the legislation, shares his fight against "truthers," who claim Alison's murder was fabricated, and reveals what's ahead in his fight to do whatever it takes to stop gun violence.

Parker's story is one of great loss, but also resilience, determination, and a call to action.

About Andy Parker

Andy Parker is the father of Alison Parker, a journalist killed on live television, and a national gun reform advocate who has appeared on all major news networks-CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox News-on programs such as CBS Sunday Morning, Face the Nation, Anderson Cooper 360, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, and many more; he has written op-eds for a variety of publications, such as Washington Post, New York Daily News, Medium, CNN.com, Huffington Post, and Newsweek; and has been interviewed for publications ranging from the New York Times to Time magazine. Together with his wife, Barbara, Parker runs the For Alison Foundation, which creates opportunities for children in southern Virginia to experience the arts. He lives in Martinsville, Virginia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on November 12, 2022

On August 26, 2105, Allison Parker, Adam Ward, and Vicki Gardner were shot by a disgruntled ex-employee while doing a live news broadcast. Allison and Adam died. The killer had installed a Go-Pro on top of his head and uploaded the video of the killing to Facebook and provided the link on Twitter. An......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on January 18, 2019

One of the most famous lines in The Shawshank Redemption is "Get busy living or get busy dying." The easiest way to describe this book is that Andy Parker took that quote and turned it into "Get busy fighting or get busy dying." You know who Alison Parker is. She and her cameraman (or "photog," for a......more

Goodreads review by Reader on February 20, 2019

I truly believe this is one of the most important books of our time. I was able to read an advance copy of For Alison in exchange for an honest review, and I was genuinely blown away by the book. Gun violence is devastating America and the author shares his journey to do everything in his power to p......more

Goodreads review by Angela on March 09, 2019

Alison Parker and Adam Ward were gunned down on live tv by a mentally ill former employee of WDBJ 7 where Alison and Adam worked. For Alison is the story of a father who lost his daughter and reluctantly began fighting for gun reform. This book, as Parker says, is part memoir, part current affairs,......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on January 29, 2019

Andy Parker is the father of murdered journalist Alison Parker, who was shot to death in August 2015 on live television. This is his plea to the masses to vote for common-sense gun laws and to decouple the NRA from American politics. This book is gut-wrenching. It intimately explores the relationship......more

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