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100	1		_aPayne, Darwin, _eauthor. _920612
245	1	0	_aBehind the scenes : _bcovering the JFK assassination / _cDarwin Payne.
246	3	0	_aCovering the JFK assassination
263			_a2310
264		1	_aDenton, Texas : _bUniversity of North Texas Press, _c[2023]
300			_aix, 306 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aEarlier Presidential Visits -- My Journey into Journalism -- "The Prettiest Bunch of Women I Ever Saw" -- "What the Hell's the United Nations for, Anyway?" -- "Welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas" -- "Can You Get Me Some Macanudo Cigars?" -- At the Assassin's Lair -- At the Assassin's Room -- "This Case Is Cinched" -- My Call to Chief Curry -- "Absolute Panic, Absolute Panic ..." -- Ruby Did Not Lunge from a Cluster of Newsmen -- What Motivated the Assassin? -- Reinventing Dallas -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Review of the Earlier Presidential Assassinations.
520			_a"On November 22, 1963, the author of Behind the Scenes was a young Dallas Times Herald reporter who sprinted from his newspaper desk to Dealey Plaza minutes after shots were fired at President John F. Kennedy. Thus began Darwin Payne's close involvement in covering one shocking event after another on this history-making weekend. Eyewitnesses he found at Dealey Plaza included Abraham Zapruder, who insisted from the first moments that the president could not have survived the serious wounds he had seen so clearly through his camera viewfinder. Payne interviewed detectives outside the School Book Depository that early afternoon as they brought down evidence of the shooter's location, as well as his rifle, and he was among several journalists taken to the assassin's sixth-floor window from where fatal shots had been fired. Before the day ended, Payne was in the Oak Cliff rooming house where the suspect had been living briefly apart from his Russian wife, Marina. Payne learned that the alleged assassin, now in police custody after being charged with the murder of officer J. D. Tippit, was known as O. H. Lee instead of Lee Harvey Oswald. On Payne's regular Saturday night police-beat duty, he was among the growing number of assertive journalists from throughout the nation who saw and heard Oswald being led to and from his jail cell to the homicide office for interrogation. As detectives pushed their way with him through the crowd of reporters, he responded to their questions with defiant claims of innocence. The mind-boggling weekend was still not over, for the next morning nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald. Behind the Scenes presents a compelling, intimate account of a hometown reporter who found himself involved in one of America's greatest tragedies"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aKennedy, John F. _q(John Fitzgerald), _d1917-1963 _xAssassination. _921499
600	1	0	_aPayne, Darwin. _920612
650		0	_aPresidents _xAssassination _zUnited States. _987040
650		0	_aPresidents _xAssassination _xPress coverage _zTexas _zDallas.
650		0	_aReporters and reporting _zTexas _vBiography.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		7	_aPersonal narratives. _2lcgft _9268853
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