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John F. Kennedy

Politics

A Death in Emergency Room One

How doctors tried, and failed, to save President Kennedy.

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Our archive of articles by Jimmy Breslin.

Jimmy Breslin New York Herald Tribune Nov 1963 10min Permalink

Crime Health

The Day Kennedy Died

The doctor who worked on both Kennedy and Oswald tells his story.

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Mooney on the Longform Podcast

Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Nov 2008 15min Permalink

A Clash of Camelots

Jacqueline Kennedy, William Manchester, and the battle over the authorized account of J.F.K.’s assassination.

Sam Kashner Vanity Fair Aug 2009 40min Permalink

History

Kennedy Is Killed By Sniper As He Rides In Car In Dallas; Johnson Sworn In On Plane

Tom Wicker was without a notebook on November 22, 1963. Instead, reported Gay Talese, he “scribbled his observations and facts across the back of a mimeographed itinerary of Kennedy’s two-day tour of Texas.”

Here’s the 3,700-word masterpiece he filed.

Tom Wicker New York Times Nov 1963 15min Permalink

History Politics

From That Day Forth

A quasi-oral history of the party that was JFK’s 1961 inauguration.

Todd S. Purdum Vanity Fair Feb 2011 25min Permalink