Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns

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Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns is written by Wilborn R. Hampton and published by Candlewick Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0763670197 (ISBN 10) and 9780763670191 (ISBN 13).

The astonishing story of a cub reporter who was there on the day that the President died. On November 22, 1963, the phone rang in the Dallas U.P.I. office. Wilborn Hampton, a cub reporter, answered and heard these words: "Three shots fired!" It was the voice of the U.P.I. White House reporter. The gunshots had been fired at President Kennedy—and young Hampton was the first to receive the news. This is his story, a riveting account of a young man swept into the white-hot core of a tragedy that would shake the world. It is also a minute-by-minute chronicle of how reporters collected the facts of the major news story of the twentieth century. Kennedy Assassinated! will leave readers with an unforgettable sense of the shock, grief, and enduring loss that every American experienced that day. Back matter includes a bibliography and an index.