Bulletins from Dallas: Reporting the JFK Assassination
Written by Bill Sanderson
Narrated by James Foster
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
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.
Related to Bulletins from Dallas
Related audiobooks
A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Watergate Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kennedy: A Captivating Guide to the Life of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under This Roof: The White House and the Presidency--21 Presidents, 21 Rooms, 21 Inside Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/51932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR-Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Public Enemies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the President 1960 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Alger Hiss and the Battle for History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cronkite Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Biography & Memoir For You
From Blood and Ash Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairy Tale Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hang the Moon: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Divine Rivals: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing to See Here Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twisted Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Local Woman Missing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dead Zone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Five Years: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ivy League Counterfeiter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Later Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Bulletins from Dallas
12 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enthralling. I couldn't stop listening. Finished in one sitting. Highly recommend.