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Seven Seconds: Memories of the JFK Assassination, the Tragedy That Changed America
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"ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH NORA EPHRON, JIMMY CARTER, JEFF BRIDGES, JAMES PATTERSON, LAUREN BACALL, GAY TALESE, AND MANY OTHERS.
Where were you when you heard the news that President Kennedy had been shot?
For years, journalist Holly Millea has concluded interviews with that question. In her decades-long career as a magazine writer, Millea has interviewed dozens of cultural icons who have shared vivid memories of what they were doing on November 22, 1963, when three gunshots fired in Dallas changed America forever.
Jimmy Carter, still a Georgia farmer, had just come in from plowing a field. After hearing the news, he went back outside and wept. Robert Redford was starring in “Barefoot in the Park” on Broadway and could barely remember his lines that night. Artist Chuck Close was at Yale, horrified to see law students toasting JFK’s death. Barbra Streisand was buying a necklace, which she still owns but has never been able to wear. And Nora Ephron was a twenty-two-year-old reporter at the “New York Post.” “It was one of those days when I had a harrowing sense of how much I was a journalist, as opposed to a human being,” she recalled. “My instinct wasn’t to weep. It isn’t that I didn’t feel terrible, it’s just that I also felt ‘I’m a journalist and I’m going back to the city room, where I belong.’”
The Byliner Original “Seven Seconds” is an oral history of the day John F. Kennedy was killed, told through the voices of men and women who made their own impact on American culture and whose work is still relevant today. James Patterson, Jeff Bridges, Diane Keaton, Charlie Rose, James L. Brooks, Gay Talese, Judy Collins, Tom Stoppard, Meryl Streep, Dick Cavett, Peter Fonda, Gayle King, James Ellroy, Carl Reiner, Barney Frank, Donna Karan, and Lauren Bacall are among the many people Millea has spoken with about that fateful day. Everyone old enough has a story. And long or short, heartbreaking or wry, every story further illuminates not just a time and place, but an era. As John Kennedy said, “History, after all, is the memory of a nation.”
The whole world will be marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination this fall. Seven Seconds poses the question that many of us will be asking: Where were you?"
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Holly Millea has covered the movie industry since 1987, writing cover stories and features for “New York,” “Premiere,” “Talk,” “Elle,” and other magazines. For ten years, Millea hosted HBO’s “Upfront in the Back Seat,” conducting on-camera interviews (in the back of a Checker cab) with directors and stars, including Sydney Pollack, Hugh Grant, Mark Wahlberg, Ron Howard, and Jodie Foster. Millea also writes the award-winning Beauty Adventure column for “Elle.”
"ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH NORA EPHRON, JIMMY CARTER, JEFF BRIDGES, JAMES PATTERSON, LAUREN BACALL, GAY TALESE, AND MANY OTHERS.
Where were you when you heard the news that President Kennedy had been shot?
For years, journalist Holly Millea has concluded interviews with that question. In her decades-long career as a magazine writer, Millea has interviewed dozens of cultural icons who have shared vivid memories of what they were doing on November 22, 1963, when three gunshots fired in Dallas changed America forever.
Jimmy Carter, still a Georgia farmer, had just come in from plowing a field. After hearing the news, he went back outside and wept. Robert Redford was starring in “Barefoot in the Park” on Broadway and could barely remember his lines that night. Artist Chuck Close was at Yale, horrified to see law students toasting JFK’s death. Barbra Streisand was buying a necklace, which she still owns but has never been able to wear. And Nora Ephron was a twenty-two-year-old reporter at the “New York Post.” “It was one of those days when I had a harrowing sense of how much I was a journalist, as opposed to a human being,” she recalled. “My instinct wasn’t to weep. It isn’t that I didn’t feel terrible, it’s just that I also felt ‘I’m a journalist and I’m going back to the city room, where I belong.’”
The Byliner Original “Seven Seconds” is an oral history of the day John F. Kennedy was killed, told through the voices of men and women who made their own impact on American culture and whose work is still relevant today. James Patterson, Jeff Bridges, Diane Keaton, Charlie Rose, James L. Brooks, Gay Talese, Judy Collins, Tom Stoppard, Meryl Streep, Dick Cavett, Peter Fonda, Gayle King, James Ellroy, Carl Reiner, Barney Frank, Donna Karan, and Lauren Bacall are among the many people Millea has spoken with about that fateful day. Everyone old enough has a story. And long or short, heartbreaking or wry, every story further illuminates not just a time and place, but an era. As John Kennedy said, “History, after all, is the memory of a nation.”
The whole world will be marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination this fall. Seven Seconds poses the question that many of us will be asking: Where were you?"
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Holly Millea has covered the movie industry since 1987, writing cover stories and features for “New York,” “Premiere,” “Talk,” “Elle,” and other magazines. For ten years, Millea hosted HBO’s “Upfront in the Back Seat,” conducting on-camera interviews (in the back of a Checker cab) with directors and stars, including Sydney Pollack, Hugh Grant, Mark Wahlberg, Ron Howard, and Jodie Foster. Millea also writes the award-winning Beauty Adventure column for “Elle.”
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First published October 1, 2013
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August 30, 2018
Interviews were interesting. I expected more of story.
December 27, 2013
Interesting enough. A kindle single (takes about 45 minutes to get through). Basically, celebrities recall what they were doing and how they felt the day JFK was assassinated. Most if it is like you'd expect.
Some really strange ones though as well. Gay Talese comes off as a jerk. James Ellroy actually is a jerk. Cybil Shepherd, incredibly self absorbed - she somehow manages to weave the fact her doctor was slipping her birth control pills without her knowledge into her recollection.
Some really strange ones though as well. Gay Talese comes off as a jerk. James Ellroy actually is a jerk. Cybil Shepherd, incredibly self absorbed - she somehow manages to weave the fact her doctor was slipping her birth control pills without her knowledge into her recollection.
October 30, 2013
A MUST READ!!
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December 13, 2013
This book was a really cool read. The author interviewed several famous people and asked one question...Where were you when you found out that Kennedy had died? It was interesting to see how people who were young or in their teens at the time had a totally different level of the importance of that moment than the people who were adults at the time.
November 21, 2013
Interesting to read how reactions and emotions varied. A quick read.
October 25, 2015
Not what I thought it was
I thought there would be more to this than interviews. I suppose that's my fault for not looking into it first, but hey, free book.
I thought there would be more to this than interviews. I suppose that's my fault for not looking into it first, but hey, free book.
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