Front Row Seat: A Veteran Reporter Relives the Four Decades That Reshaped America

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Summary: A unique piece of history
Review: A veteran ABC Newcaster during the turmoil in the south in the 60's and 70's and an individual who met and befriended H Ross Perot, Murphy Martin gives in inside look from his vantage point of the events of Martin Luther King, the Kennedy Assination and some of Ross Perot's most incredible exploits. It is well written and full of interesting tidbits of the personalities of the day.

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Summary: A lifetime of work watching history in the making.
Review: Murphy Martin does an incredible job of relating his life's work as newsman and journalist though some of the most provocative changes in our nations history. From his beginning as a broadcaster in Lufkin, Texas in the 50's, his experiences with Jack Ruby, the Oswald family, and Martin Luther King in the 60's, Martin brings out the facts and gives the book a personal feel. The chapters on Ross Perot, provides a fresh insight to the bright and caring man he is. A side of the man most of us have never heard about.

Murphy has experienced what most of us have only read in the paper or viewed on television, he has had a true" A Front Row Seat to History"