assassination

"Describes the life, accomplishments, and assassination of John F. Kennedy"--Provided by publisher.

Dramatic reenactments detailing how John Wilkes Booth evaded capture for two weeks and the extensive reach of his conspiracy.

Recreates the events surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and examines the lasting impact it had on the American people.

Posits that John F. Kennedy was not killed by a lone assassin.

A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans to assassinate him on the Ides of March.

A detailed look at many aspects of the Kennedy assassination, including JFK's autopsy, the single-bullet theory, and the activities of Lee Harvey Oswald.

A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.

April, 1967: a prison escape. James Earl Ray, nondescript thief and con man, drifts through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he is galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. February, 1968: a Memphis garbage strike. Martin Luther King joins the sanitation workers' cause, but their march turns violent. King vows to return to Memphis in April. Historian Sides follows Ray and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the drifter catches up with his prey. Against the backdrop of the resulting nationwide riots and the pathos of King's funeral, Sides gives us a cross-cut narrative of the assassin's flight and the 65-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England--a massive manhunt ironically led by Hoover's FBI. Drawing on previously unpublished material, this nonfiction thriller illuminates how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great--From publisher description.