The author was a young reporter trying to stay out of the way in the Dallas office of United Press International on November 22, 1963, when he found himself in the midst of what became one of the biggest stories of U.S. history. Hampton's sense of how to be helpful in what immediately became a highly competitive situation helped to give UPI an edge as the news broke. The gripping narrative reads like breaking news and is abundantly illustrated with both familiar and unfamiliar press photos reproduced in black and white. Subsequent changes in technology and other aspects of public life can be easily identified as a second level of information. (Ages 9-14)

The astonishing story of a cub reporter who was there on the day that the President died.

On November 22, 1963, the phone rang in the Dallas U.P.I. office. Wilborn Hampton, a cub reporter, answered and heard these words: "Three shots fired!" It was the voice of the U.P.I. White House reporter. The gunshots had been fired at President Kennedy—and young Hampton was the first to receive the news. This is his story, a riveting account of a young man swept into the white-hot core of a tragedy that would shake the world. It is also a minute-by-minute chronicle of how reporters collected the facts of the major news story of the twentieth century. Kennedy Assassinated! will leave readers with an unforgettable sense of the shock, grief, and enduring loss that every American experienced that day.
Back matter includes a bibliography and an index.