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"The so-called ""crime of the century""--the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--was almost preordained to happen. Like all presidents from decades before him, JFK played it loose with security--open cars, Secret Service agents at a distance, and a desire to be seen. Yet conspiracy buffs are certain the security setup on November 22, 1963 was unusual and suspicious. It wasn't. And what of Lee Harvey Oswald, the drifter, the vicious wife-beating, fame-seeking narcissist? Everything in his background--dating back to his violent, disturbing grade school years, including his stated desire to murder President Dwight Eisenhower--defines the real Lee Oswald. The Oswald that conspiracists rarely talk about--the Oswald who was perched in the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as JFK drove by--was headed for this moment of infamy years before he pulled the trigger. In Countdown to Dallas, author Paul Brandus tracks the backgrounds of both Kennedy and Oswald, the very different era in which they lived, and the incredible string of circumstances that brought them together for a few fateful moments in Dallas."

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An award-winning independent member of the White House press corps and its most followed member on Twitter, Paul Brandus founded West Wing Reports in 2009 and provides reports for television, radio, and print outlets in the United States and overseas. A frequent speaker on presidential leadership and history and a columnist for MarketWatch, his career spans network television, Wall Street, and several years in Moscow, where he covered the collapse of the Soviet Union and its aftermath for NBC Radio, National Public Radio, and Public Radio International's Marketplace. He has traveled to fifty-three countries on five continents and has reported from, among other places, Iraq, Chechnya, China, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is a member of the White House Correspondents Association and a former board member of the Overseas Press Club of America. David Colacci is an actor and director who has directed and performed in prominent theaters nationwide. His credits include roles from Shakespeare to Albee, as well as extensive work on new plays. As a narrator, he has won numerous Earphones Awards, earned Audie Award nominations, and been included in Best Audio of the Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal. He was a resident actor and director with the Cleveland Play House for eight years and has been artistic director of the Hope Summer Rep Theater since 1992.

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