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The shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 were fired from the sixth floor of a nondescript warehouse at the edge of Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. That floor in the Texas School Book Depository became a museum exhibit in 1989 and was designated part of a National Historic Landmark District in 1993. This book recounts the slow and painful process by which a city and a nation came to terms with its collective memory of the assassination and its aftermath. Stephen Fagin begins Assassination and Commemoration by retracing the events that culminated in Lee Harvey Oswald’s shots at the presidential motorcade. He vividly describes the volatile political climate of midcent...
"Patrick Fagin, progenitor of the Fagin family treated in this history was born in Ireland and came to the American colony of New Jersey some time around 1740. ... tradition says that he came from northern Ireland -- the "Orange Country" -- ... Patrick Fagin was originally in the colony of Irish settlers of Salem Co., New Jersey, and was apparently a schoolmaster in Elsin Borough, Salem Co. about 1759. Before 1766 he had moved, ... to New Hanover Township, Burlingon Co. ... there Patrick's children were born. ... [there is] no record of his marriage. ... Patrick Fagin and his family left New Jersey before 1790, ... [moving] to western Pennsylvania, and settled in Fayette Co., Menallen Township, on the Monogohela River near Brownsville."--P. 6. "Patrick Fagin died before 1820 ... He may have died in Clermont before 1810"--P.8. It is said that he was buried in the Old Clough Cemetery. Descendants lived in Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, California, Oregon, Washington and elsewhere.
The shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 were fired from the sixth floor of a nondescript warehouse at the edge of Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. That floor in the Texas School Book Depository became a museum exhibit in 1989 and was designated part of a National Historic Landmark District in 1993. This book recounts the slow and painful process by which a city and a nation came to terms with its collective memory of the assassination and its aftermath. Stephen Fagin begins Assassination and Commemoration by retracing the events that culminated in Lee Harvey Oswald’s shots at the presidential motorcade. He vividly describes the volatile political climate of midcent...
Steve Fagin is an artist whose videos incorporate, challenge, and cross over into the realm of literary and cultural studies. Talkin' with Your Mouth Full includes not only scripts of Fagin's works but critical responses to--and meditations on--a variety of his influential videos by a distinguished, if intriguingly disparate, group of artists and scholars. Combining elements of criticism with various modes of artistic expression, these responses take the form of reviews, letters, interviews, and in one case an imaginary TV programming schedule. Interspersed with--and sometimes literally interrupting--the video scripts, these contributions interact with one another on multiple levels and comp...
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
This work is a witty exploration of the eerie similarities between the assassinations of presidents Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy that have fascinated both casual and serious history buffs for more than half a century. From the compilation of these mysterious coincidences to the campfire story of a curse cast upon the American presidency, this account is filled with captivating anecdotes that are often hard to believe. Balancing historical research with a sprinkle of whimsy, this book is the most substantial investigation of a nearly folkloric American topic. Pulling back the curtain of history, it sheds light on what makes these coincidences so intriguing and enduring.
Compilation of 26 rare interviews with those standing on or near the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza, Dallas Tex., November 22, 1963, at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "Included are interviews from United States Government officials and medical experts who knew to a scientific certainty that JFK was shot from the front at least once, possibly twice"--Pref., p. v
On November 22, 1963, the author of Behind the Scenes was a young Dallas Times Herald reporter who sprinted from his newspaper desk to Dealey Plaza minutes after shots were fired at President John F. Kennedy. Thus began Darwin Payne’s close involvement in covering one shocking event after another on this history-making weekend. Eyewitnesses he found at Dealey Plaza included Abraham Zapruder, who insisted from the first moments that the president could not have survived the serious wounds he had seen so clearly through his camera viewfinder. Payne interviewed detectives outside the School Book Depository that early afternoon as they brought down evidence of the shooter’s location, as well...