Nikita Khrushchev Action adventure novel Saving Jackie K explores escalating tensions between the US and Russia, in the ‘Cold War’ timeframe preceding JFK’s tragic assassination. Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, is shown with increasing hostility toward the US and our president. … Continue reading
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Fidel Castro From the outset of his presidency, Kennedy yearned for Castro to be removed from power. JFK subscribed to the Domino Theory, which argued that if a country fell to communism, its neighbors would follow. And, Castro capitulated to … Continue reading
Richard Milhous Nixon Saving Jackie K chronicles the bitter rivalry between JFK and Richard Nixon. Was losing the presidential election to Kennedy by a small margin enough to warrant an assassination plot? Born in 1916 in Yorba Linda, California, Richard … Continue reading
Alternate History novel Saving Jackie K outlines the power wielded by career G-man, J. Edgar Hoover. Would a threat to his FBI kingdom provide the impetus to assassinate the thirty-fifth president of the United States? Born before the dawn of … Continue reading
Lyndon Baines Johnson Thriller Saving Jackie K describes several suspects with a motive to kill President John F. Kennedy. Lyndon Baines Johnson, JFK’s VP, clearly benefited from the president’s demise, as he instantly became the new Commander in Chief. Would … Continue reading
Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker and publisher Hu Zhengyan (1584 – 1674) was a Chinese artist, printmaker and publisher. He worked in calligraphy, traditional Chinese painting, and seal-carving, but was primarily a publisher, producing academic texts as well as records … Continue reading
Cinematic new thriller, Saving Jackie K exposes the secrets of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In real life, the Warren Commission accused social misfit and loner Lee Harvey Oswald of committing the atrocity. On October 18, 1939, a … Continue reading
Martin Luther King Jr. Blockbuster novel Saving Jackie K narrates a thrilling fictional account of the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But when discussing charismatic leaders from the 1960s, JFK must share the spotlight with the Reverend Martin … Continue reading
Jack Ruby New novel Saving Jackie K discusses the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of murdering JFK, but didn’t live to stand trial. Jack Ruby gunned him down two days after his arrest. Who … Continue reading
0.1 Percentage of Kennedy’s popular-vote win over Nixon in the 1960 presidential election. 1 First president born in the twentieth century. 1 Election with first televised presidential debates. 1 Only Catholic president. 1 Only president to have won a Pulitzer … Continue reading
Saving Jackie K is a page-turning novel that springs from the premise that would-be assassins missed, and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy lived beyond November 22, 1963. But who was the man that we mourn today? … Continue reading
Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President of the United States Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower – October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969, was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961, and the last U.S. President to have … Continue reading
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Firsts Below is a photo showing the first presidential motorcade, first open-top one, to boot. The car is a Columbia Electric Victoria Phaeton. Roosevelt is on the left. On the right is Colonel Jacob Greene, chairman of … Continue reading
Profile of the Social Reformer Susan B. Anthony Born on Feb. 15, 1820, in Adams, Mass., Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president of the National American Woman Suffrage … Continue reading
Profile of Pop Illustrator and writer Roy Lichtenstein Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work … Continue reading