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Dallas 1963: Patriots, Traitors, and the Assassination of JFK
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Dallas 1963: Patriots, Traitors, and the Assassination of JFK
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Dallas 1963: Patriots, Traitors, and the Assassination of JFK

Written by Steven L. Davis

Narrated by Tony Messano

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Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Research NonfictionNamed one of the Top 3 JFK Books by Parade Magazine.

Named 1 of The 5 Essential Kennedy assassination books ever written by The Daily Beast.

Named one of the Top Nonfiction Books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews.

In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world, W.A. Criswell; and the media mogul Ted Dealey, who raucously confronted JFK and whose family name adorns the plaza where the president was murdered. On the same stage was a compelling cast of marauding gangsters, swashbuckling politicos, unsung civil rights heroes, and a stylish millionaire anxious to save his doomed city.

Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas. Breathtakingly paced, DALLAS 1963 presents a clear, cinematic, and revelatory look at the shocking tragedy that transformed America. Countless authors have attempted to explain the assassination, but no one has ever bothered to explain Dallas-until now.

With spellbinding storytelling, Minutaglio and Davis lead us through intimate glimpses of the Kennedy family and the machinations of the Kennedy White House, to the obsessed men in Dallas who concocted the climate of hatred that led many to blame the city for the president's death. Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened in the weeks and months leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. DALLAS 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city-and a nation.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 8, 2013
ISBN9781619692794
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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent book. Well researched and well written. It also came across as being non-partisan, not an easy feat given the atmosphere in Dallas in 1963, which was definitely radical right. What is most amazing about this book is that most of the vitriol aimed at JFK sounds almost word for word like the hate currently being spewed at Obama by the far right. It seems like the political scene really never changes much. This is a must read for anyone with an interest in the political climate in Dallas leading up to the assassination of JFK.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    An astounding, brilliantly written journalistic tour de force. Anyone who lived during the sixties, and especially in the South, will recognize the atmosphere and the players. The past is not always beautiful, and this shows the ugly side of Southern hospitality..
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Dallas 1963 is a fascinating look not so much of the Kennedy assassination itself, but of a handful of Dallas residents who were either pro or violently anti-Kennedy. Some residents such as civil rights crusaders Juanita Craft and Rhett James or elegant merchant Stanley Marcus were great fans of JFK and hopeful that his civil rights policies would have a positive effect on the city of Dallas. Others, such as newspaper owner Ted Dealey, Senator Bruce Alger and former general Edwin Walker despised Kennedy and the entire civil rights movement. Unfortunately the worst elements of the city all too often took control. LBJ and Lady Bird were harassed and spit on by a mob of upper middle class housewives during an earlier visit to Dallas. U.N. ambassador and two time Presidential nominee Adalai Stevenson and was also spit on and attacked by radical mobs within the city.Most striking about this novel is how little seems to have changed. The John Birch society has morphed into the Tea Party. Arch conservatives still rail against universal health care and death panels. It's very easy to read entire passages of this book and forget that the events discussed took place in the 1960's instead of today. Dallas 1963 is a warning on what can happen when the worst impulses are allowed to flourish unchecked.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I received Dallas 1963 as part of a Goodreads giveaway.

    Dallas 1963 is less about the JFK assassination than it is about the social and political climate of Dallas in the years leading up to the shooting, in particular the far-right forces that loathed Kennedy and his appointees for their "Communist" and civil rights agendas.

    A really fascinating look at Dallas' social, religious, and political leaders in the early 1960s. On one side, General Edwin Walker, WWII hero turned right-wing leader, oil baron H.L. Hunt, Ted Dealey, owner of the then-staunchly conservative Dallas Morning News, and W.A. Criswell, leader of the world's largest Baptist church. On the other side are Stanley Marcus, head of the Dallas-based Neiman Marcus department store and a supporter of both Kennedy and the "communist" fine arts, civil rights activist Juanita Craft, and Reverend Rhett James, leader of a large African-American congregation.

    The story is told in relatively short month-by-month chapters beginning in January 1960. Watching the tensions grow and time tick down to the fateful day of November 22, 1963, the book reads like a novel with strange, intriguing, and all too often villainous characters whose names haven't made it into mainstream history books. Anyone who followers modern-day politics even casually can fail to hear the Tea Party in much of the anger and rhetoric spouted by the far-right extremists of Dallas 1963.

    Highly recommended.