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JFK
In an instant on November 22, 1963, morning in America became mourning in America.
After centuries of hostility against Catholics, the elections of Presidents Kennedy and Biden marked an end to the trend in American politics.
Editor's Note: One of our most popular Facebook posts last month was about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which marked its 57th anniversary on November 22.
Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers which indicates that Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.
Kennedy was ass
Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers which indicates that Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.
Kennedy was ass
A look at one of America’s most resilient prejudices
Those fortified with enough caffeine to follow our presidential race, may have noticed the frequent presence of a priest behind George W. Bush.
Is there something we should be doing about this?” “This” was the airplane accident that had claimed the lives of John F.
When, some years ago, Nigel Hamilton, the English biographer of Field Marshal Montgomery, told an American friend that he hoped one day to write about John F. Kennedy, the friend protested that there were already far too many books about Kennedy and his family.
In November of 1962, I was living on Pinckney Street at the top of Beacon Hill in Boston, and when, on election day, I learned that John F.
"Memoirs,” Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter once told young Richard Goodwin, “are the most unreliable source of historical evidence.
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