Charles Kennedy spent a decade photographing and writing about a Red-tailed hawk, named Pale Male, as well as other wild visitors and residents of Central Park in New York City.
The “thrilling, dramatic, historic” #1 New York Times bestseller by the Parkland Hospital surgeon who fought to save President John F. Kennedy (Robert K. Tanenbaum). On November 22, 1963, Dr. Charles Crenshaw, an accomplished surgeon, tried to save John F. Kennedy’s life—and then days later, the life of the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. His gripping, firsthand account contradicts the Warren Commission and years of public misperception to illuminate a chapter in American history long cloaked in conspiracy. Writing with eye-opening immediacy, Dr. Crenshaw takes readers into the emergency room to share the critical events at Parkland Hospital as he lived them. Now updated, his searing testimony punctures myths and shatters a cover-up of massive proportions. “Hard-hitting, courageous, and correct in every respect.”—Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D. "Dr. Crenshaw offers his expert opinion with persuasive evidence. Read this page-turning account of the Kennedy assassination.”—Robert K. Tanenbaum, Deputy Chief Counsel, Congressional Committee Investigation into the Assassination of President Kennedy Includes revealing photos Previously published as JFK Conspiracy of Silence
A biography of the senator who served as attorney general under his brother's administration and was assassinated during his own Presidential Campaign in 1968.
New York City's Central Park was both subject and muse for the late poet, amateur naturalist, and photographer Charles F. Kennedy. Friends marveled at his gift for capturing the subtle beauty of nature in his beloved park. At his death in 2004, Kennedy left behind a large body of Central Park-focused haiku and photo essays. The Fish Jumps Out of the Moon: Haiku of Charles F. Kennedy is the first published collection of Kennedy's work. It sparkles with masterful haiku, nature photographs, and enchanting essays. Kennedy's nephew, Steve Kennedy, edited the collection in collaboration with author and poet Dan Guenther. The editors' captivating introduction gives the reader insight into the life and art of Charles Kennedy. We learn that he regularly led groups of kindred spirits on nighttime nature forays into Central Park. The Fish Jumps is a night journey that stretches from twilight to first light. Along the way the reader is treated to exquisite haiku snapshots of classical haiku themes-- the moon, night herons, bats, and fireflies. Owls and spiders haunt the collection's winding paths in stunning photos and essays. The special gems of this collection are rare photographic (and poetic) images of emerald cicadas and of common slugs engaged in luminescent lovemaking.
The famous Red-tailed Hawks of Fifth Avenue in New York City had no greater friend or champion than the late Charles F. Kennedy. The story of Kennedy's relationship with Pale Male, the patriarch hawk, is one of devotion and joy-along with a helping of "flying envy." Pale Male and Family: Essays and Photos of Charles F. Kennedy is Kennedy's previously unpublished homage to the nesting hawks. It includes a foreword by Kennedy's close friend, Frederic Lilien, whose documentary film "The Legend of Pale Male" will have its premiere in the fall of 2009.Pale Male and Family educates and entertains with Kennedy's superb photos and essays that shine with wit, anthropomorphic whimsy, and hawk science. This handsome collection follows the life cycle of young hawks-from small nestlings peering over the nest's edge, to fledging from the nest, to independent hunting in Central Park.Pale Male and Family is the defining tribute to the Red-tailed Toast of Manhattan. Readers will see and hear, in Kennedy's beatific images and metaphors, the wonder with which he beheld the behavior of the red-tails; how he marveled at the hawks' power, resilience, and parenting instincts. Pale Male and Family will enchant bird lovers and nature fans of all ages.
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