Description: Behind the Scenes : Covering the JFK Assassination, Hardcover by Payne, Darwin, ISBN 1574419110, ISBN-13 9781574419115, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "On November 22, 1963, the author of Behind the Scenes was a young Dallas Times Herald reporter who sprinted from his newspaper desk to Dealey Plaza minutes after shots were fired at President John F. Kennedy. Thus began Darwin Payne's close involvement in covering one shocking event after another on this history-making weekend. Eyewitnesses he found at Dealey Plaza included Abraham Zapruder, who insisted from the first moments that the president could not have survived the serious wounds he had seen so clearly through his camera viewfinder. Payne interviewed detectives outside the School Book Depository that early afternoon as they brought down evidence of the shooter's location, as well as his rifle, and he was among several journalists taken to the assassin's sixth-floor window from where fatal shots had been fired. Before the day ended, Payne was in the Oak Cliff rooming house where the suspect had been living briefly apart from his Russian wife, Marina. Payne learned that the alleged assassin, now in police custody after being charged with the murder of officer J. D. Tippit, was known as O. H. Lee instead of Lee Harvey Oswald. On Payne's regular Saturday night police-beat duty, he was among the growing number of assertive journalists from throughoutthe nation who saw and heard Oswald being led to and from his jail cell to the homicide office for interrogation. As detectives pushed their way with him through the crowd of reporters, he responded to their questions with defiant claims of innocence. The mind-boggling weekend was still not over, for the next morning nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald. Behind the Scenes presents a compelling, intimate account of a hometown reporter who found himself involved in one of America's greatest tragedies"--
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Book Title: Behind the Scenes : Covering the Jfk Assassination
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Journalism, United States / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Weight: 10.5 Oz
Author: Darwin Payne
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
