KENNEDY ASSASSINATED!: The World Mourns: A Reporter's Story

Wilborn Hampton, . . Candlewick, $8.99 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-1564-2

"Hampton writes an engrossing blow-by-blow account of November 22, 1963, when, as a cub reporter for UPI, he was drafted to cover JFK's assassination," said PW in a Best Books citation. Ages 10-15. (Oct.)

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