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- Birth nameJames Alonzo Bishop
- Jim Bishop was born on November 21, 1907 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer, known for Ford Star Jubilee (1955), El valle de los caídos (1963) and F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980). He was married to Elizabeth Kelly Stone, Elinor Margaret Dunning and Elinore Margaret Dunning. He died on July 26, 1987 in Delray Beach, Florida, USA.
- SpousesElizabeth Kelly Stone(May 19, 1961 - July 26, 1987) (his death)Elinor Margaret Dunning(June 14, 1930 - October 1957) (her death, 2 children)Elinore Margaret Dunning(? - October 10, 1957) (her death, 2 children)
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 105-106. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- In 1952, was living in Teaneck, New Jersey.
- Had two daughters with first wife Elinor Margaret Dunning - Virginia Lee (born about 1937) and Gayle Peggy (born about 1943).
- Once worked as secretary to Mark Hellinger, a Broadway newspaper columnist who also became a film writer and producer.
- Once hosted a now-forgotten TV series called "Battlefield", a 1960's precursor to the similarly-themed 1995 series. For some reason, little documentation about this 1960's version can be found.
- I don't think of myself as a historian. A reporter, maybe. What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd just rather write a good story.
- [To Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy after she requested in 1964 that he not proceed with his book on the assassination of her husband] I cannot believe that you mean this. To say that one man may rewrite history, but that another may not, amounts to personal copyright.
- There's always a temptation to anyone to flower up Lincoln's death scene. I suppose I learned long ago that - well, I don't believe in it. Underplay, undersay, let the facts speak for themselves.
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