Jim Bishop > Quotes

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
― Jim Bishop

“Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”
― Jim Bishop

“Nothing is as far away as one minute ago”
― Jim Bishop

“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”
― Jim Bishop

“It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”
― Jim Bishop

“God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn’t rule the world.”
― Jim Bishop

“I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.”
― Jim Bishop

“bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“the rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building was a 6.5-caliber Mannlicher-Carcano with the serial number C2766”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“is hard to realize that a complete nothing, a zero like that, could kill a man like President Kennedy.” Ruby asked how”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“Believe me, all of you, when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if not, at least believe on the strength of what I am doing.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Christ Died

“The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outline of an old and worried face.”
― Jim Bishop

“firm in Chicago called Klein’s Sporting Goods was known to have sold the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle by magazine coupon. Chicago had been asked to track down Klein’s management and, if necessary, to get them out of bed and try to locate a Dallas or New Orleans order from Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee Oswald, L. H. Oswald, Alex Hiddell, A. Hidell, or A. Hidel.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“Yes, sir.” “I don’t know what the doctors are looking for, but they should be told that a pristine bullet has been found.” The disorder of the apartment”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“Three weeks ago a man who had called himself Lee H. Oswald had rented Box 6225.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“No,” she said adamantly. The words had become a set piece: “I want them to see what they’ve done.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“The appointments secretary had taken Kilduff by the arm and pointed to the broad back of Lyndon Johnson. “He’s got what he wants now,”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“headquarters said that Lee Harvey Oswald was probably a communist. He had spent years in Russia;”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“an instrument and made a small indentation on each object. “This is my mark,” he said to the FBI man. “I will be able to identify it in court.” Bardwell”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“Again, you have heard it was said of old: ‘Do not swear falsely, but you must redeem your promises made under oath to the Lord.’ I, on the contrary, declare to you: do not swear at all, whether by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King; nor should you swear by your own head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black. Let your speech be ‘yes,’ when you mean yes, and ‘no,’ when you mean no. Whatever is in excess of these expressions is due to the evil in the world.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Christ Died

“marksmanship on the rifle range was not as good as his drill instructors expected. Some called his work “sloppy.” When”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“and I don’t pass on why he did it or anything else. We, we’re just interested in proving that he did it, which I think we have.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“The malcontent appeared to be offended. “Oh,” he shouted at the assemblage, “this is the deal, is it?”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“All guns are the same to me—dark brown or black.” He pointed to the sight again. “No,” she said. “I have never seen a gun like that in his possession.” She pointed dramatically to the sight.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“He had asked again and again for a lawyer. He had requested the services of John Abt of New York and, when Oswald had reminded the police inoffensively that they had taken his thirteen dollars away from him, he was told to make the phone call collect. This gave him an unnecessary hurdle”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“No government agency saw Lee Harvey Oswald as a danger.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“involved. For the sake of Dallas it would be a good thing to present the assassination as solved to the press of the world.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“He was intelligent and he must have known that he would again be the only man in those lights with real bruises.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“The man on the other end of the wire was a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He asked if Mr. Olds knew whether the civil rights of Oswald had been protected. Olds said he knew nothing about the case.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“This is not to say that Humes and Boswell were unqualified to conduct an autopsy; it was not their specialty.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot