Five Days in November In Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of JFK's Assassination

If you'd like to learn more about John F. Kennedy's assassination, we recommend Five Days in November by Clint Hill

yeah so the the name of the book is called five days and um it's really about five days in baltimore through the eyes of eight different people and and the five days in baltimore that i capture are really the five days around the unrest that took place around the death of freddie gray and this was a you know exactly you know five five years ago that this all happened and it was amazing because one of the things that i've found even now and what we saw back then is that you know freddie gray died in the hands of you know he died in police custody and this this was also during a time when this was taking place all throughout the country where you know that the guardian reported that even during that summer of 2015 over 100 african americans died at the hands of police violence and what was really interesting about it was as i continued to dig into this we saw that that what happened to freddie at that time was about the dangers and the horrors of excessive police force and excessive police violence but the truth is that even if you look at the two years before freddie gray in baltimore in the baltimore region alone there was also you know there was anthony anderson and there was chris brown and there was tyrone west right there was the other people who who had similar circumstances and similar interactions that led to a similar fate but there was something else about this about this moment that really triggered something different and one of the things that really captured me about this story and about you know really wanted to dig in through the lives in those five days in baltimore through the eyes of these eight people was the as heartbreaking as freddie gray's death was what was also heartbreaking was his life.