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Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAK

Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KEN

Summary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRE

Holler, Dick.

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Roznique Music, Inc. 1968

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Summary: Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audio 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F & JACQUELINE ONA

Talbot, David

Summary: Journalist Talbot sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath. The book begins on the shattering afternoon of November 22, 1963, as a grief-stricken Robert Kennedy urgently demands answers about the assassination of his brother, then shifts back in time, revealing the shadowy conflicts that tore apart the Kennedy administration,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 TAL

Summary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFK

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFK

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFK

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Summary: Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F. & JACQUELINE ONA

Kendrick, Stephen

Summary: "A history of the 1960 US presidential election with a focus on the role played by the imprisonment of Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of an Atlanta sit-in"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.0973 KEN

Bader, Bonnie

Summary: "Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected rooms of the White House to their former glory, and through her charm and elegance became a style icon whose...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016

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Summary: Oliver Stone's chronicle of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the mystery enshrouding it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER JFK

Baldrige, Letitia.

Summary: Letitia Baldrige, social secretary for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, presents photographs and recollections of six memorable occasions at the White House, including a luncheon for Princess Grace, and an alfresco dinner at Mount Vernon; and includes menus and recipes from the entertainments by White House chef René Verdon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 642 BAL

Lincoln, Evelyn

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1968

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 LIN

Bayard, Louis

Summary: "A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAY

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAY

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAY

Kaiser, David E.

Summary: Fought as fiercely by politicians and the public as by troops in Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War, its origins, its conduct, its consequences, is still being contested. In what will become the classic account, based on newly opened archival sources, David Kaiser rewrites what we know about this conflict. Reviving and expanding a venerable tradition of political, diplomatic, and military history,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 KAI

VanDeMark, Brian

Summary: Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly, until now.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 VAN

Andersen, Christopher P.

Summary: An account of Jack and Jackie Kennedy's final year together reveals details of their complex marriage, including rumored infidelities, the president's hidden medical problems, and the tragic death of their infant son.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F AND

Klein, Edward

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KLE

Levingston, Steven

Summary: An account of the contentious relationship between the thirty-fifth president and Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement explores their influence on one another and the important decisions that were inspired by their rivalry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 LEV

Kempe, Frederick.

Summary: Shares controversial perspectives on a defining event in the Cold War, revealing how nearly American and Soviet troops came to waging nuclear war while citing the specific challenges that were faced by international leaders.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.155 KEM

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