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Title: Bulletins from Dallas

Subtitle: Reporting the JFK Assassination

Author: Bill Sanderson

Narrator: James Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

An in-depth look at one of the twentieth century's star reporters and his biggest story.

Thanks to one reporter's skill, we can fix the exact moment on November 22, 1963 when the world stopped and held its breath: At 12:34 p.m. Central Time, UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith broke the news that shots had been fired at President Kennedy's motorcade. Most people think Walter Cronkite was the first to tell America about the assassination. But when Cronkite broke the news on TV, he read from one of Smith's dispatches. At Parkland Hospital, Smith saw President Kennedy's blood-soaked body in the back of his limousine before the emergency room attendants arrived. Two hours later, he was one of three journalists to witness President Johnson's swearing-in aboard Air Force One. Smith rightly won a Pulitzer Prize for the vivid story he wrote for the next day's morning newspapers.

Smith's scoop is journalism legend. But the full story of how he pulled off the most amazing reportorial coup has never been told. As the top White House reporter of his time, Smith was a bona fide celebrity and even a regular on late-night TV. But he has never been the subject of a biography.

With access to a trove of Smith's personal letters and papers and through interviews with Smith's family and colleagues, veteran news reporter Bill Sanderson will crack open the legend. Bulletins from Dallas tells for the first time how Smith beat his competition on the story, and shows how the biggest scoop of his career foreshadowed his personal downfall.

Members Reviews:

A great read with new perspectives on Dallas and the story behind the story

Page-turner. Great read. Stayed up late to finish in one sitting. You thought you knew everything about Dallas, but think again. This is the story of how the story got told, from the perspective of a leading journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage and an author who did voluminous research to fill in the blanks. The subsequent research, interviews, etc. tie everything together. The advantages of just-the-facts reporting over today's more opinion-based version are discussed. So, too, is the personal story of Merriman Smith, the reporter involved. His remarkable rise to prominence, longevity on the beat, relationships with Presidents, and then his ultimate unraveling and tragedy are told in a highly readable way.

A Book You Can't Put Aside About a Story You Think You Know

There have been so many stories written about the Kennedy assassination--history and conspiracies, books and magazine articles--that you'd think after over 50 years there's nothing new or interesting to say. You'd be wrong. Bill Sanderson, a veteran newspaper reporter and editor, does for this story what great writers do. He gives his reader a fresh perspective by telling the story from a new and different viewpoint and by presenting facts that no one knew. The perspective is that of Merriman Smith, a deeply flawed and intensely interesting character. Smith was the UPI White House corespondent from Roosevelt to Nixon. For much of that time, he was a celebrity in his own right. He not only produced stories on the President that appeared in papers all over the world, he also wrote books, penned "gossipy" Page 6 stories, and appeared on talk shows and game shows.