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  Winter, Paul

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  Joe Jr.’s death in

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  Yarborough, Ralph

  Yeager, Frank

  Youngblood, Rufus

  Zapruder, Abraham

  Zinser, Gerald E.

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  O’Reilly, Bill.

  Kennedy’s last days: the assassination that defined a generation / Bill O’Reilly. — First edition.

  pages cm

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-0-8050-9802-0 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-8050-9974-4 (e-book)

  1. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917–1963—Assassination—Juvenile literature. I. Title.

  E842.Z9O74 2013 973.922092—dc23 2013009026

  First Edition—2013

  Based on the book Killing Kennedy by Bill O’Reilly, published by Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

  eISBN 9780805099744