The Last Day Of JFK

Jan 14, 2025 6:37 PM

Author:BBC,Alistair Cooke

The Last Day Of JFK

Two BBC Radio programmes exploring President John F. Kennedy's shocking assassination on 22 November 1963. In Something Is Terribly Wrong, first broadcast in 2003, Alan Thompson charts the confusion and disbelief after the assassination. He returns to key sites in Dallas, and talks to eyewitnesses including Nellie Connally (ex-First Lady of Texas), Jim Leavelle (ex-Dallas detective), Jim Ewell (ex Dallas Morning News correspondent), Aubry Rike (ambulance driver/witness), and Ken Dowe, from Dallas radio station KLIF. Using rare, vivid archive material, he relives the events as they unfolded over three days that shocked the world. In Letter from America, first broadcast two days after the President's assassination, renowned broadcaster Alistair Cooke uses his weekly radio missive to reflect upon the legacy of John F. Kennedy, and to observe that the American nation feels it has been robbed of a brother.

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—— Financial Times

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—— Observer

To overlook Sinclair is to ignore one of the most distinctive voices in Britain

—— GQ

One of the finest writers alive

—— Alan Moore

London's own poet laureate

—— Time Out

I’ve never read a history book that is as insightful and at the same time as funny as this one.

—— Steven Johnson

This is a blockbuster of a book. Kurt Andersen is a dazzling writer and a perceptive student of the many layers of American life. Take a deep breath and dive in.

—— Tom Brokaw

Riveting…hugely entertaining.

—— Francis Wheen , Mail on Sunday

Charged with enough anger and wit to become necessary reading.

—— Observer

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