1986 Novel by Stanley Shapiro
A Time to Remember is the last novel by
Stanley Shapiro , a
time travel thriller about the
assassination of John F. Kennedy , published on August 12, 1986, by
Random House .
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Years later, the similarities and differences would be discussed in regards to
Stephen King 's novel
11/22/63 and its
TV adaptation , as very different approaches to the same idea.
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Still mourning his brother who died in
Vietnam , David travels back in time to 1963 to try to prevent the
assassination of
President Kennedy , to save the president and his brother and all other lives lost in the war. When he gets to 1963, he is unable to stop
Lee Harvey Oswald from shooting JFK and is instead arrested himself for the killing.
A Time to Remember was reviewed by
Kirkus Reviews ,
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Library Journal ,
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Television film adaptation
It was adapted into a 1990 television film called
Running Against Time starring
Robert Hays ,
Catherine Hicks , and
Sam Wanamaker and directed by
Bruce Seth Green .
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Shapiro wrote the teleplay himself (with Robert Glass as co-writer) and it was the last work written by him. Broadcast four months after Shapiro's death in Los Angeles, it was dedicated to his memory.
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^ Shapiro, Stanley (1986). A Time To Remember . New York: Random House.
ISBN
9780394550312 .
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A Checklist of Vietnam War Literature . Ultramarine Publishing. 1994.
ISBN
978-0-89366-286-8 .
^ Shapiro, Stanley (1988).
A time to remember . Internet Archive. New York : New American Library.
ISBN
978-0-451-15484-2 .
^ Latham, Caroline; Sakol, Jeannie (1989).
The Kennedy Encyclopedia: An A-to-Z Illustrated Guide to America's Royal Family . NAL Books.
ISBN
978-0-453-00684-2 .
^ Nahin, Paul J. (2001-04-20).
Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction . Springer Science & Business Media.
ISBN
978-0-387-98571-8 .
^ Reginald, R.; Burgess, Mary Wickizer; Mallett, Daryl Furumi (1992).
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991: A Bibliography of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Fiction Books and Nonfiction Monographs . Gale Research.
ISBN
978-0-8103-1825-0 .
^ Publishing, R. R. Bowker (1993-09-01).
Books in Print 1993-94 . R. R. Bowker.
ISBN
978-0-8352-3363-7 .
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"A Time to Remember by Stanley Shapiro" . www.fantasticfiction.com . Retrieved 2021-01-29 .
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"11.22.63 Bonus Episode 3: A Time To Remember Running Against Time – 11.22.63" . barrenspace.com . Retrieved 2021-01-29 .
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Jim Kobak's Kirkus Reviews . Kirkus Service. 1986.
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Kirkus Children's and Young-adult Edition . Kirkus Service. 1986.
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Library Journal . Cahners Publishing Company. 1986-07-01.
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"» Reviewed by Marv Lachman: STANLEY SHAPIRO – A Time to Remember" . Retrieved 2021-01-29 .
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"TV Review : 'Against Time' on USA" . Los Angeles Times . 1990-11-21.
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"Running Against Time" . EW.com . Retrieved 2021-01-29 .
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The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV, and Videography, 1963-1992 . Greenwood Press. 1993.
ISBN
978-0-313-28982-8 .
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The Hollywood Reporter . Wilkerson Daily Corporation. 1990.
^ Marill, Alvin H. (2005).
Movies Made for Television, 1964-2004: 1990-1999 . Scarecrow Press.
ISBN
978-0-8108-5174-0 .
^ Moser, James D.; Stevens, Tracy; Publishing, Quigley; Pay, William; Thompson, Patricia (2004).
Television & Video Almanac . Quigley Publishing Company.
^ Davies, Clive (2015-03-06).
Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write About . SCB Distributors.
ISBN
978-1-909394-06-3 .
^ Ap (1990-07-24).
"Stanley Shapiro, 65; 'Pillow Talk' Script Won Him an Oscar (Published 1990)" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-01-29 .
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"Oscar-Winner Stanley Shapiro | The Seattle Times" . archive.seattletimes.com . Retrieved 2021-01-29 .
^ Times, Los Angeles.
"S. SHAPIRO, PRODUCER, FILM WRITER" . Sun-Sentinel.com . Retrieved 2021-01-29 .
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"Stanley Shapiro, 65; Producer, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter" . Los Angeles Times . 1990-07-22.
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