{"product_id":"jfks-final-hours-in-texas-an-eyewitness-remembers-the-tragedy-and-its-aftermath-9780988508323","title":"JFK's Final Hours in Texas: An Eyewitness Remembers the Tragedy and Its Aftermath","description":"\u003cp\u003eJulian Read  a Texas political insider who delivered the first eyewitness report of President John F. Kennedys assassination to the media  has authored a behind-the-scenes account that chronicles the tragedy and its fifty-year legacy. In JFKs Final Hours in Texas  Read documents not only the immediate agony endured by the people in the epicenter of the tragedy but also the continuing experience of a wounded community recovering from its aftermath. In 1963  Read was the media representative for Governor John B. Connally  host of the presidents November visit to Texas. On the day Kennedy was killed  Read was aboard the chartered White House Press bus  just a few vehicles behind the presidential limousine in the motorcade through downtown Dallas. After hearing the shots and watching the limousine lurch forward amid panicking onlookers  Read raced to nearby Parkland Hospital  where the president and Connally had been rushed to emergency rooms. There  immediately after White House Deputy Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff announced that the president was dead  Read briefed journalists based on what Nellie Connally  wife of the governor  had hurriedly reported to him. Beyond capturing the drama of the immediate hours following the assassination  Read illuminates the previously overlooked consequences of the aborted portion of the trip. The author also traces the long aftermath of the assassination  including the intensity of the bitterness against Dallas and Texas. And  in what he calls \"the long journey from anguish to reconciliation \" Read follows the decades-long struggle to create the Sixth Floor Museum in downtown Dallas  located in the space where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shots.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279997329461,"sku":"ByrdShop_098850832X","price":65.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780988508323.jpg?v=1780617348","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/jfks-final-hours-in-texas-an-eyewitness-remembers-the-tragedy-and-its-aftermath-9780988508323","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}