JFK - Breaking the News: A Reporter's Eyewitness Account of the Kennedy Assassination and It's Aftermath

by Hugh Aynesworth

Hugh Aynesworth, four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, was the only reporter to witness the assassination of President Kennedy, the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the murder of Oswald. Famous among his fellow investigative journalists, he now breaks new stories in the book reporters have asked him to release for decades. If you thought you knew everything interesting to know about the Kennedy assassination, then think again. Breaking the News is the definitive story of the assassination and its aftermath. - Eager to appear on top of the JFK sotry, which DAllas newspaper fooled its readers with a bogus interview with J. Edgar Hoover?
- How did defense attorney Melvin Belli concoct the famous epilepsy defense for Jack Ruby?
- Why didn't the FBI tell the Dallas police that Lee Harvey Oswald worked in a building directly in the path of JFK's motorcade?
- What was New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's secret code and how did his investigators bribe a witness? The first print reporter to interview Marina Oswald and first to establish her husband's escape route, Aynesworth also uncovered Oswald's Russian diary and was involved in first reporting how the high-profile defector paid a threatening visit to the FBI office in Dallas only days before the assassination. Breaking the News provides over 200 photographs and artifacts from Aynesworth's peronal archive, his notes the day of the assassination, letters from British philospher Bertrand Russell, then Congressman Gerald Ford, and the Jack Ruby family.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

296 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2003

About the author

Four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bureau chief of both Newsweek and the Washington Times, and investigative team leader for ABC’s 20/20, Hugh Aynesworth was a thirty-two-year-old reporter for the Dallas Morning News when JFK’s visit to Dallas ended in tragedy. His coverage of the assassination, the trial of Jack Ruby, and the conspiracy flurry that followed earned him two Pulitzer nominations and recognition as one of the most respected authorities on the Kennedy assassination.

Hugh Aynesworth lives in Dallas with his wife Paula, a sales executive at KERA and KXT North Texas Public Media.

Reviews

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Borrowed from library.

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[Jaclyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent book if you like JFK history, written from the reporters that were first on the seen.