Compiled by United Press International and American Heritage Magazine. The Herald News. Published by American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. Copyright 1964. There is a color photograph of President John F. Kennedy sitting in the back seat of the presidential limousine with its top down on the front cover. "THE HERALD NEWS" is also boldly printed on the front cover. Hard cover, 11 x 8 1/2. 143 pages. Front cover has some light scattered age toning mostly around the outer edges. Profusely illustrated. Introduction by noted Civil War author and historian Bruce Catton. Fantastic pictures, some full page, walking you through those fateful days of, November 22-25, 1963, when the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The book also covers the arrival of the Kennedy's at Love Field, Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald in police custody, his murder by Jack Ruby, Kennedy's body lying in State in Washington, D.C., and his funeral procession leading to his burial at Arlington National Cemetery. The book is in very fine to excellent condition with strong covers and spine, no tears, and no writing on any of the pages. The book shows normal aging. Extremely desirable local New Jersey issue. Finding this exact version of the book today might be very hard to do since it was sold locally by The Herald News, one of the leading newspapers serving the Lyndhurst area which many of the town's residents read. I am the original owner, purchasing it in 1964. Rare.

I still remember those days very vividly. At the time of Kennedy's assassination I was a grammar school student at Roosevelt School in Lyndhurst. It happened on Friday, November 22, 1963. When the word reached our school it was decided out of respect for the president to send all of the students home. I also remember when we got home my parents would not allow us to go out and play so our typical touch football games on 10th Street were cancelled that day. As most of America was glued to our television screens so was the Rosa family. Like most Italian families did on Sunday, my family were all seated around the dining room table settling in to enjoy our typical early Sunday afternoon macaroni meal when much to our surprise and shock we watched stunned as Jack Ruby shot and killed the accused assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, live on national television. At the time Oswald was being transferred by sheriff's deputies in the basement of the Dallas police station.