1:00PM NEWSFLASH...PRESIDENT KENNEDY DEAD. On 22nd November, 1963, the phone rang in the Dallas U.P.I. (United Press International) office. Wilborn Hampton, a cub reporter only months out of college, answered and heard these words: "Three shots were fired at the motorcade!" It was the voice of the senior U.P.I. White House reporter, tailing John F. Kennedy's limousine through the streets of Dallas. The gunshots had been fired at the thirty-fifth President of the United States and Hampton was the first to receive the news. This is his story, a remarkable account of a young man swept into the white-hot core of a tragedy that would shake the world. It is also a riveting minute-by-minute chronicle of how reporters collected the facts of this major news story, as it was breaking.

 

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Walker Books Ltd .

Wilborn Hampton is an editor and writer for the "New York Times" and the award-winning author of "Kennedy Assassinated!, Meltdown, " and "September 11, 2001. " He lives in New York City.