Jim Bishop – författare

“This classic of popular history vividly dramatizes a pivotal moment in the life of our country . . . a happy blend of good scholarship and good storytelling.” —AudioFile

The Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, hour-by-hour account of April fourteen, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated.

It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth during every movement of that fateful day. Author and journalist Jim Bishop has fashioned an unforgettable tale of tragedy, more gripping than fiction, more alive than any newspaper account.First published in 1955, The Day Lincoln Was Shot was a huge bestseller, and in 1998 it was made into a TNT movie, with Rob Morrow as Booth.

“Everything that concerned Lincoln’s assassination from 7:00 A.M. Friday until 7:22 A.M. Saturday, the moment of his death. A new kind of Lincoln book.” —The New York Times

“Startling, tabloid immediacy . . . police-blotter facts.” —Time

“A great news story brilliantly recaptured.” —New York Herald Tribune

“Reads like a novel—holds you in suspense like a detective story!” —Pittsburgh Press

“History with the impact of a Page One news story.” —Syracuse Herald American

“Terror and suspense.” —Cleveland News

"This is a book about the most dramatic day in the history of the world, the day on which Jesus of Nazareth died. It opens at 6 P.M.—the beginning of the Hebrew day—with Jesus and ten of the apostles coming through the pass between the Mount of Olives and the Mount of Offense en route to Jerusalem and the Last Supper. It closes at 4 P.M. the following afternoon, when Jesus was taken down from the cross. . . . The fundamental research was done a long time ago by four fine journalists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The rest has been added in bits and pieces from many men whose names span the centuries."—from the Foreword

This minute-by-minute account of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination captures the action, mystery, and drama that unfolded on November twenty-two, 1963.

Author Jim Bishop’s trademark moment-by-moment suspenseful storytelling drives this account of an unforgettable day in American history. His retelling tracks all of the major and minor characters—JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Jackie, and more—illuminating a human drama that many readers believe they know well.

“To Mr. Bishop’s credit, he arranges material clearly, he appears to have studied every source of information available, and he declines to make any melodramatic assumptions about missing bullets or multiple assassins.” —The Atlantic

“That metronome of public disasters tick-tocking through some 600 pages in the carpe diem documentary technique which Mr. Bishop handles so capably.” —Kirkus Reviews