Lost excerpts from O'Reilley books
Last Days of Jesus - "A windy day on that hill carried the sounds of nails pounded into wood overlaid with screams of condemned men. I ran to the top just as a cross bearing a bloodied body was being hoisted up. The women gathered at its foot looked to me for comfort or for help, but I could give neither."
Killing Patton - "Oil and gasoline mixed on the streets of the quaint town of Mannheim. Laying next to the railroad tracks was two army vehicles. One a heavy duty brute of a truck, the other a Cadillac staff car. Three of the four victims were ambulatory talking in quiet whispers occasionally turning their head and attention to the officer sitting upright in the back seat of the staff car. A groan escaped his lips as I heard him say, " I think I'm paralyzed".
The Day Kennedy Died - " Waiting on the knoll, the crowd's expectation was palpable. Cameras were out, flags were waving. As the motorcade turned onto Dealey Plaza. Mark Zapruder hadn't taken his cap off his camera and I turned to him to say, "You really should record this."
The Day Lincoln Died - "Sitting opposite us in that dimly lit theaters, I could barely make out the features of the war-weary President, his wife and the accompanying couple sitting in the box with them. A sliver of light broke the darkness shrouding the box like a door opening then quickly closing. A breath. A moment. A heartbeat later a shot muffled by the press of a gun against a skull rolled through the house. I knew that sound from my days at Cold Harbor and the horrible night at the Wilderness where men were mercy killing the wounded , pressing the guns next to our comrades so to muffle their shots."
