Jim Bishop - The Day Lincoln Was Shot

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(12-08-2014 06:46 AM)Thomas Thorne Wrote:  I presume most people of a certain age myself included cut their teeth on the LA reading Jim Bishop. He also wrote books about the deaths of Jesus and JFK. Bishop did the latter despite being rejected for the position of Kennedy court historian by Jackie Kennedy who deemed him a dreadful hack. The assignment went to William Manchester.
Tom

I can see where the very literate and instinctive historian, Jacqueline Kennedy, would have preferred the better regarded William Manchester. I want to say that it was James O. Hall who had spoken with Jim Bishop and had learned that Bishop did not consider himself a true historian (and I would agree - no matter how much I enjoyed his book as a teenager).