Jim Bishop (21 November, 1907 – 26 July, 1987) was a journalist and author from New Jersey.
Fun Facts about Jim Bishop:
- James Alonzo Bishop was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- He dropped out of school in eighth grade. He started learning to type, write in shorthand, and bookkeeping.
- In 1929 Mr. Bishop found himself working as a copy boy at the New York Daily News.
- By 1930 he was working as a cub reporter at the New York Daily Mirror, and stayed there until 1943.
- He joined Collier’s, an American general interest magazine, where he worked for the next two years.
- Until 1948, Jim Bishop worked for Liberty magazine, and had other jobs until 1957.
- His column, Jim Bishop: Reporter, landed him on Richard Nixon’s list of political opponents.
- The Day Lincoln was Shot, which was published in 1955 was a cumulation of 24 years of work. The book sold more than 3 million copies, and was translated into 16 languages.
- The book was dramatized for TV in 1956 as a live CBS special show (Jack Lemmon played John Wilkes Booth), and ones again in 1988 as a TNT made for television movie.
- In 1974 he published FDR’s Last Year: April 1944 – April published in 1974. The book, his most acclaimed, brought awareness to the fact that FDR was in declining health and the secrecy surrounding it.
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