The Last Day Of JFK

By: BBC

Narrated by: Alistair Cooke

Two BBC Radio programmes exploring President John F. Kennedy's shocking assassination on 22 November 1963. In Something Is Terribly Wrong, first broadcast in 2003, Alan Thompson charts the confusion and disbelief after the assassination. He returns to key sites in Dallas, and talks to eyewitnesses including Nellie Connally (ex-First Lady of Texas), Jim Leavelle (ex-Dallas detective), Jim Ewell (ex Dallas Morning News correspondent), Aubry Rike (ambulance driver/witness), and Ken Dowe, from Dallas radio station KLIF. Using rare, vivid archive material, he relives the events as they unfolded over three days that shocked the world. In Letter from America, first broadcast two days after the President's assassination, renowned broadcaster Alistair Cooke uses his weekly radio missive to reflect upon the legacy of John F. Kennedy, and to observe that the American nation feels it has been robbed of a brother.

The Day The World Cried

I was only 9 years old when this tragedy occurred but I still remember...it was the first time I ever witnessed my father cry...and those drums...those terrible drums..

We wonder why the world doesn't understand America

Would you try another book from BBC and/or Alistair Cooke?

No

What do you think your next listen will be?

Don't know

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Alistair Cooke?

Don't know

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Anger and frustration

Any additional comments?

The book was filled from start to finish with bad facts, bad chronology, bad information and bad conclusions. No one should even waste their time and money on this book.