Il Presidente [The President]; La lunga di una breve vita [The long story of a brief life]
Roma [Rome]: Newton Compton Editori, 1990. Prima edizione [stated]. Hardcover. Text is in Italian. 448 pages. Illustrated endpaper. Illustrations. Some depressions on illustration pages. Bibliographia. Indice dei nomi. Indice. Inscribed on the half-title page by Gianni, in Rome, in 1991. Gianni Bisiach (born 7 May 1927) is an Italian journalist, television and radio writer and presenter, essayist, documentarist and screenwriter. Born in Gorizia, after getting his degree in Medicine Bisiach enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In the mid-1950s he entered RAI as a collaborator of the news program TV 7. In the late 1970s he started working on radio, where he created the long-standing Radio Uno talk show Radio anch'io, which run between 1978-1992 and had a TV spin-off, still hosted by Bisiach. In his variegated career Bisiach also directed the documentary film I due Kennedy and a segment of the anthology film I misteri di Roma, and collaborated to some screenplays. He also wrote several books, notably the interview book Pertini racconta in collaboration with Sandro Pertini. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Fifty years have passed, but the details and back story of that illustrious murder, which marked the end of an era, are still shrouded in an aura of mystery. John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic president of the United States. As a young senator, along with his brother Bob, he had conducted a courageous Senate inquiry in Washington against the most fearsome gangsters of the time. Appointed president, JFK leads America toward the recognition of civil rights, the abolition of racial discrimination, the policy of aiding third world countries. In 1963, during a visit to the city of Dallas, John F. Kennedy was shot dead. In 1968, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were also assassinated. Numerous official and non-official investigations have been carried out to shed light on the tangle of those crimes. Then the archives were opened and many pitiless truths came to light. Condition: Good / Very good.
Keywords: John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Sam Giancana, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Carlos Marcello, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Santo Trafficante, Zapruder
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