Thirtieth anniversary of Kennedy assassination, 1993
Searching for a fair evaluation of John F Kennedy's life, 30 years after his assasination and how the significance of anniversaries is transformed by historical revisions.
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Assassination of J F Kennedy, 1963
The death of J F Kennedy (1917-1963), the first president of the television age.
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Bobby Kennedy's assassination, 1968
Cooke's eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy (1925-1968).
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- Fri 26 Nov 1993 21:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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JFK
A collection to mark the anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
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See the scripts at the Boston University Archive—Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Link through to Alistair Cooke's original scripts, at Boston University's HGARC.
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Presidents of the United States—Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, President Bush II has never been busier, 2002
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