Five Days in November [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Hill, Clint; McCubbin, Lisa

Published by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, New York, 2013

About this Item

As new condition light blue boards/dark blue spine/gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Introduction by Clint Hill; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; and Photo Credits. Profusely illustrated with both color photographs and black-and-white photographs. "On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence. That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate attempt to protect the President and Mrs. Kennedy. That agent was Clint Hill. Now Secret Service Agent Clint Hill commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by Hill's incomparable insider account of those terrible days. With poignant narration accompanying rarely seen images, we witness three-year-old John Kennedy Jr.'s pleas to come to Texas with his parents and the rapturous crowds of mixed ages and races thtat greeting the Kennedys at every stop in Texas. We stand beside a shaken Lyndon Johnson as he is hurriedly sworn in as the new president. We experience the first lady's steely courage when she insists on walking through the streets of Washington, D.C., in her husband's funeral procession. A story that has taken Clint Hill fifty years to tell, this is a work of personal and historical scope. Besides the unbearable grief of a nation and the monumental consequences of the event, the death of JFK was a personal blow to a man sworn to protect the first family, and who knew, from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the same." - from the inner front jacket flap. Seller Inventory # 005079

Bibliographic Details

Title: Five Days in November [FIRST EDITION, FIRST ...

Publisher: Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, New York

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition