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341) Executive action
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Who killed President Kennedy? Mixing narrative sements with newsreel footage, the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assassination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald.
342) Milk
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death...
349) Operation Long Jump: Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the greatest assassination plot in history
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Had it succeeeded, it would have been the most shocking and audacious assassination in history: killing Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. It combined the Nazi regime's elite commando and intelligence units, including the Ss, weith amateurish bungling. Also explored are the Soviet, British, and American agents on the scene, and other assorted male and female characters.--
350) A mighty heart
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Jewish-American journalist, Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in January of 2002. The violent act became an international scandal as the group that claimed responsibility for the crime demanded the liberation of prisoners from the American detainee prison in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba. The American government does not give in to the terrorists' demands. Mariane travels to Pakistan and is alone, searching for the most important person in her life....
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 4
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Years after the events of the Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne, now a professor at Georgetown University, is living a quiet life, far from the dangers of his previous life as a CIA agent. Until one day when he finds himself the target of an assassin nearly as skilled as himself, and is framed for the brutal murder of his two closest associates and friends. Now he must use all his skills to stay alive as he battles a determined assassin, the combined...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
Series
Pub. Date
[c2003]
Language
English
Description
Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered. He is given a choice: either face a horrible death by...
Author
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. Special features: behind the scenes; trailer. Director of photography, Ruairi O'Brien; editor, Hans Funk; music, David Holmes, Leo Abrahams. Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt. In 1975, 17-year-old Alistair Little, a member of the UVF, murdered 19-year-old Catholic Jim Griffin. The murder was witnessed by his 11-year-old brother, Joe Griffin. Twenty-five years later the media arranges for the two men to meet...
355) Jackie
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The film places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of a...
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A look at the assassination of JFK and the days that followed while examining the aftermath, and controversies that emerged. This documentary uses unique, rarely seen and heard contemporary footage, including home movies, Dallas police dispatch radio recordings, and raw news footage.
Author
Pub. Date
Maine. [2018]
Language
English
Description
"After combing through thousands of recently declassified FBI files and interviewing key witnesses, crime analysts, and forensic experts during years of research, investigative writer David Gardner has unearthed new information that will transform the way we look at the lives and deaths of Marilyn Monroe, JFK, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Princess Diana"--
358) Bullets and silver
Author
Series
Caleb Marlowe novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Colorado, July 1878. The nationally famous solar eclipse is almost upon the country and a peak overlooking the fledgling town of Elkhorn is one of the centers of attention. In the midst of boisterous and chaotic frontier pre-celebrations, Caleb Marlowe--reluctantly deputized for the coming event--learns that local power broker Judge Horace Patterson is targeted for assassination by agents of a financial magnate. Caleb's efforts to thwart the plan,...
360) JFK
Series
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, whose investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy became an obsession.
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