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John F. Kennedy assassination expert Russell here compiles a selection of his latest research into the assassination of our thirty-fifth president. These pieces cover every aspect of the JFK assassination, from the shots, to the subsequent investigation, to the Warren Report. Russell's research analyzes newly declassified information and continues to build upon his painstakingly detailed investigations.--From publisher description.
3) JFK
Pub. Date
2003
Description
The story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison whose investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy became an obsession.
5) JFK
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
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Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 3
Pub. Date
c1991
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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Famed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Domínguez-Escalante expedition. In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Japanese woodblock print artist Utagawa Hiroshige is famous for his series of prints entitled The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (1832-33) depicting scenes along the ancient roadway linking Tokyo and Kyoto. Two hundred years after Hiroshige's prints were published, French artist Philippe Delord makes his own journey of discovery along this mythical road on a motor scooter, with Hiroshige's fifty-three prints in hand. The result is this stunning...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Since the early twentieth century, scientists have been trying their best to prove that the ivory-bill is extinct. But every time they think they've finally closed the door, the bird makes an unexpected appearance. To unravel the mystery, author Gallagher heads south, deep into the eerie swamps and bayous of the vast Mississippi Delta, searching for people who claim to have seen this rarest of birds and following up--sometimes more than 30 years after...
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Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
"The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in Barolo was all it took to lead Rowan Jacobsen down a rabbit hole into a world of secretive hunts, misty woods, black-market deals, obsessive chefs, quixotic scientists, muddy dogs, maddening smells, and some of the most memorable meals ever created. Truffles attract dreamers, schemers, and sensualists. People spend years training dogs to find them underground. They plant forests of oaks and wait...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Nathan Raab, America's preeminent rare documents dealer, describes his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts, questing after precious finds and determining their authenticity, and he shows us what the past can tell us about the present. A box uncovered in a Maine attic with twenty letters written by Alexander Hamilton; a handheld address to Congress by President George Washington; a long-lost Gold Medal that belonged to an American...