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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Jim Bishop

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Jim Bishop

A good writer is not per se a good book critic. No more than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop

Archaeology sounds like dull sport in five syllables. It isn't. It's the Peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going: they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jim Bishop

Jim Bishop

Jim Bishop

Born: November 21, 1907

Died: July 26, 1987 (aged 79)

Bio: James Alonzo "Jim" Bishop was an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book The Day Lincoln was Shot.

Known for:

The Day Christ Died (1957)
The day Lincoln was shot (1955)
The day Kennedy was shot (1968)
The Day Christ was Born (1977)
The golden ham (1956)

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