- Title : Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination
- Author : Jim Lehrer
- Rating : 4.97 (768 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-8-24
- Format : Audio CD
- Pages : 134 Pages
- Asin : 1480591866
- Language : English
Agent: Will Lippincott, Lippincott Massie McQuilken. Fact-checking his story, Jack asks a Secret Service agent if the president's limousine will be traveling through Dallas with the plastic bubble top up or down. From Publishers Weekly Lehrer (formerly the anchor of PBS's NewsHour) draws upon his experiences as a reporter in Dallas on November 22, 1963, for this unusual take on the Kennedy assass
Agent: Will Lippincott, Lippincott Massie McQuilken. Fact-checking his story, Jack asks a Secret Service agent if the president's limousine will be traveling through Dallas with the plastic bubble top up or down. From Publishers Weekly Lehrer (formerly the anchor of PBS's NewsHour) draws upon his experiences as a reporter in Dallas on November 22, 1963, for this unusual take on the Kennedy assassination. Lehrer doesn't say anything particularly profound here about the tragedy's long-lasting aftereffects, but his premise does make for a refreshing change from the usual conspiracy thrillers about the J.F.K. (Oct.) . Five years later, Van's 20-year-old daughter, Marti, asks for Jack's help reversing her father's depression, leading to a macabre reenactment in which the former agent tries to prove to himself that there's nothing he could have done differently. That reasonable choice (the top was neither bulletproof nor intended to protect Kennedy) naturally leads to feelings of profound guilt on Van's part after the fatal shots are fired in Dealey Plaza. Since the top is intended only for use in the rain, and clear skies are expected, agent Van Walters indicates thatThe decision to leave the top down and expose JFK to fire from above will weigh on Van’s conscience for decades. Van Walters is ravaged by guilt, so convinced that his actions led to JFK’s death that he has lost the will to live. In a riveting novel rooted in one of American history’s great “what ifs,” Jim Lehrer tells the story of two men haunted by the events leading up to John F. But for Van the stakes are even higher. Drawing on his own experience as an eyewitness to the events described, one of America’s most respected journalists has crafted an engrossing story out of the emotional aftershocks of a national tragedy.. Will the bubble top on the presidential limousine be up or down? Down, according to veteran Secret Service agent Van Walters. But will it also change the course of history?Five years after the assassination, Jack gets an anguished phone call from Van’s daughter Marti. The outcome of a ballistics test conducted on the grounds of a secluded estate in upstate New York might just save his lifeor push him over the edge.A compelling historical novel with the beating heart of a thriller, Top Down could only have sprung from the fertile imagination of Jim Lehrer. As Air Force One touches down in Dallas, ambitious young newspaper reporter Jack GilmorAs a teenager from a wealthy Jewish family, he had what he believed (and still believes) to be a visitation from Christ. Also, the romance and the plot are woven together nicely; neither one detracts from the other. From there, the story-telling goes downhill quickly. This story contains fighting, betrayal, rescuing, sexy hot aliens & lots of sex scenes. Potential readers just need to keep in mind that the vast majority of her focus here is on those with high functioning autism like herself.That said, interestingly enough Grandin is probably among the most optimistic writers with regard to the potential of those with autism. I would recommend it to people who like old motorcycles, especially like me who owned one.. This book has an excellent chapter on injections. This book only tries to justify rejecting what we have learned for a supernatural myth. I read between 250 and 300 books per year and most are enjoyed and quickly forgotten. It falls in the bottom 10 of the 41 book series for me.. The pictures alone are worth the price of the book. I found myself reading these poems aloud to myself, by myself. But always on the edge wanting more. It is also (probably because we understand so little about it) a hellish
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