JFK’s sudden death was the most significant political murder during a turbulent decade that became known for assassinations, including: Kennedy’s his own brother, attorney general-turned-senator Robert F. Kennedy (June 1968), Martin Luther King Jr. (April 1968), Malcolm X (Feb. 1965), and Medgar Evars (June 1963).
A recently released e-book details many celebrities’ recollection of that horrific day, including Nora Ephron, Jeff Bridges, Barbra Streisand, Charlie Rose, James L. Brooks, Jimmy Carter, Gay Talese, Dick Cavett, Peter Fonda, Carl Reiner, James Patterson, Chuck Close, Debbie Reynolds, Donna Karan, Liza Minnelli and Judy Collins. They are among the many cultural icons longtime celebrity feature writer Holly Millea has spoken with about that fateful day when, in just seven seconds, a series of gunshots in Dallas altered the trajectory and direction of America forever.
Even a half century later, JFK’s murder — and to a lesser extent, his little brother RFK’s assassination five years later — still resonates with the American public, spawning countless books on his life as well as a plethora of conspiracy theories that try to discount the official conclusion that the president was slain by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Here are excerpts from the book, Seven Seconds: Memories of the JFK Assassination, the Tragedy That Changed America, written by Millea, who compiled the information from her interviews over the years and put it into this book.
Take a look at what the celebrities and dignitaries were doing when they learned that President Kennedy was killed.
