Thanks to all who made suggestions.
Here is our list for news stories and books written based on the events:
NEWS EVENT BOOK
World Trade Center Disaster (Sept 11, 2001) Let's Roll (Beamer)
Christopher Reeve's accident (May 27, 1995) Still Me (Reeve)
Hurricane devastated Galveston, Texas (1900) Isaac's Storm (Larson)
The Chicago Columbian Exposition (1893) Devil in the White City (Larson)
The Clinton Administration (1992-2000) Living History (Clinton)
The Columbine shootings (April 20, 1999) Give a Boy a Gun (Strasser)
Loma Prieta earthquake (1989) also known as Quake (Cottonwood)
theWorld Series Earthquake
Sinking of the Titanic (April 15, 1912) A Night to Remember (Lord)
Unsinkable (Butler)
Jon Benet Ramsey murder (Dec 26, 1996) Perfect Murder Perfect Town
(Schiller)
JFK Presidency (1960-1963) A Thousand Days (Schlessinger)
Tylenol/Cyanide poisoning (Feb 14, 1986) Harmful Intent (Cook)
School integration in Boston (1972-1985) Common Ground (Lukas)
Civil rights movement (1960's) The Watsons Go to Birmingham
(Curtis)
Ted Bundy (murders 1974-1978) The Stranger Beside Me (Rule)
(trials 1980s)
Martha Moxlie murder (Oct 30, 1975) Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha
Moxley? (Fuhrman and Dunne)
Tate-Labianca Murders (Manson) (1969) Helter Skelter (Bugliosi)
Patty Hearst Kidnapping (Feb 1974) Anyone's Daughter (Alexander)
Watergate break-in and scandal (June 1972) The Palace guard (Rather)
All the President's Men(Woodward)
1968 - US politics, civil rights, Vietnam 1968: the Election that
Changed
America (Gould)
Presidential Election of 2000 Deadlock (Washington Post)
(Nov 1999 through Nov 2000) Too Close to Call (Toobin)
Election of Jesse Ventura (Oct. 1998) Electing Jesse Ventura: a Third
Party Success Story (Lentz)
Scopes Trial (1925) Inherit the Wind (play) (Lawrence)
Love Canal (Niagara Falls, NY) Toxic waste Love Canal: My Story (Gibbs)
Dump (Aug 1978 and beyond)
Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg We are your Sons (Meeropol)
(indictment Aug 1950, trial Mar 1951)
Assassination of Robert Kennedy (June 6, 1968) The Assassination of Robert
Kennedy: A Searching Look at the
Conspiracy and Coverup (Christian)
Chappaquiddick (death of Mary Jo Kopechne) Blackwater (Oates)
(Ted Kennedy - July 18, 1969)
O J Simpson Trial, (1996) The Run of his Life (Toobin)
Attica Prison Uprising (Sept 1971) A Time to Die (Wicker)
Pearl Harbor (Dec 7, 1941) December 7, 1941 (Prange, et al)
Day of Infamy (Lord)
D-Day (June 6, 1944) The Longest Day (Ryan)
Russians shoot down Korean Airline flight 007 Shootdown (Johnson)
(September 1983) "Korean airlines incident"
Death of the crew of the Andrea Gail, off The Perfect Storm (Junger)
Nova Scotia (October 1991)
My Lai massacre - Vietnam (March 16, 1968) Four Hours at My Lai (Belton)
Trang Bang Napalm attack The Girl in the Picture (Chong)
Vietnam (June 8, 1972)
Cuban Missle Crisis (April 17-19, 1961) Thirteen Days (Kennedy)
GW Bush 2000 presidential campaign Ambling Into History (Bruni)
(Dec 1999 through Nov 2000)
Richard Nixon Presidency (1968-1974) Abuse of Power (Kutler)
Oklahoma City bombings (April 19, 1995) American Terrorist: Timothy
McVeigh & the Tragedy at
Oklahoma City -- (Michel, Herbeck)
Clutter family murders (1959) In Cold Blood (Capote)
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