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Informationen zum Autor James L. Swanson (1959-2025) is the author of the New York Times bestseller Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, which won an Edgar Award and was adapted into an acclaimed Apple TV+ series. His other books include Bloody Crimes: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Chase for Jefferson Davis . Swanson served on the advisory council of the Ford's Theatre Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Campaign and was a member of the advisory committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. Richard Thomas, in addition to his Emmy-award winning work on The Waltons , has starred in well over 40 television series and specials, among them Roots: The Next Generation, Law and Order SVU, and The Practice ; he has also starred in numerous classic and contemporary plays around the country and on the London and Broadway stage, most recently in Richard Greenbergs A Naked Girl on the Appian Way . Klappentext Here, for the first time in decades, is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. In End of Days, James Swanson reveals Lee Harvey Oswald's bizarre history of violence and follows John and Jacqueline Kennedy on their fateful Dallas motorcade ride. Swanson takes us to the sixth-floor Texas Book Depository window to look through Oswald's rifle sights, re-creates the last hours of the doomed assassin, and the day of national mourning for the president that followed, culminating in a funeral that united the country. Combining extensive research with his unparalleled storytelling abilities, Swanson turns the events of one of the darkest days of the twentieth century into a pulse-pounding thriller that will remain the definitive account of the assassination for years to come. Zusammenfassung In End of Days ! James L. Swanson! the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer ! brings to life the minute-by-minute details of the JFK assassination—from the Kennedys' arrival in Texas through the shooting in Dealey Plaza and the shocking aftermath that continues to reverberate in our national consciousness fifty years later. The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22! 1963! has been the subject of enduring debate! speculation! and numerous conspiracy theories! but Swanson's absorbing and complete account follows the event hour-by-hour! from the moment Lee Harvey Oswald conceived of the crime three days before its execution! to his own murder two days later at a Dallas Police precinct at the hands of Jack Ruby! a two-bit nightclub owner. Based on sweeping research never before collected so powerfully in a single volume! and illustrated with photographs! End of Days distills Kennedy's assassination into a pulse-pounding thriller that is sure to become the definitive popular account of this historic crime for years to come. ...
