John F Kennedy
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Why Did Ruby Kill Oswald? May 23, 2025
Sixty years ago, Jack Ruby shot Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. What was his motive? The Warren Commission lawyer who investigated Ruby reveals the killer’s state of mind....
JFK Files Revive an Old Conspiracy Theories March 28, 2025
Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s memo ends with a previously redacted page that spells out a proposal to give control of covert activities to the State Department and to split the CIA into two agencies....
JFK Wanted You to Watch This Movie March 28, 2025
The president had a hand in the making of a Cold War blockbuster....
What Killed Kennedy? March 24, 2025
Was it the mob? A coup? Cuban dissidents? War hawks? Over 60 years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the theories are still debated. Do any of them hold up?...
Why Did JFK Keep a Coconut in the Oval Office? November 25, 2024
The unassuming item marked an event from his naval career....
Cuban Espionage and the Assassination of JFK November 23, 2024
In the book, Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine (2012), author Brian Latell, a professor, scholar, and retired CIA officer who had been active in foreign intelligence for 35 years, relies extensively on information provided by ...
Details About JFK Assassination Keep Emerging November 23, 2024
The JFK assassination sent the nation into mourning and shook it to its core, as Americans searched for answers....
8 Facts About the John F. Kennedy Assassination November 22, 2024
Explore facts about the JFK assassination, the perpetrator, the investigations...and conspiracy theories surrounding the event....
Mystery Around JFK's Grave Has Been Solved October 11, 2024
The bronze wreath immortalized the moment when the members of the Honor Guard removed their hats and placed them on the president's grave during his burial....
Blame Arrogance for Bay of Pigs Invasion Fail April 17, 2023
In March, just two months into the Kennedy administration, Air Force Chief Curtis LeMay was called into a meeting at the Pentagon with the Joint Chiefs. He would represent the Air Force because White was out of town. LeMay noticed that there was some...
Robert E. Lee: Hero or Villain? April 10, 2023
For most of the first century following the American Civil War, histories of the war’s legacy – particularly the Reconstruction era – tended to suffer from the myopia of considering only the relationship between white Northerners and white Southerner...
Construction Secrets of Original World Trade Center April 04, 2023
In early 1962, when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officially authorized a plan to build the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, it came just months after President John F. Kennedy announced the U.S. goal of sending astronauts to th...
Backstory of JFK's Gravesite March 14, 2023
When President John F. Kennedy’s burial was televised on November 25, 1963, it was the first time Americans from coast to coast could participate in the funeral of a leader without being physically present. And by selecting the 624-acre site in the n...
From Washington to Bush, These Presidents Were Military March 08, 2023
When the 117th Congress convened on Jan. 3, 2021, only 91 - more than one-sixth - of its members were veterans, the lowest number since at least WWII, according to the MilitaryTimes. Serving in the military was once considered essential to attaining ...
Take a Look Inside JFK's 'Doomsday Bunker' February 10, 2023
In November 1957, Soviet Communist Party chief Nikita Khrushchev bragged to an American reporter about the effectiveness of his country’s long-range missiles. Issuing a taunting challenge to the United States government, he said, “Let’s have a peacef...
Carter's Failed Cuba Rapprochement in 1977 January 03, 2023
“Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.” That in many ways summarizes decades of U.S. policy towards its island neighbor. However, the quote is not by John F. Kennedy or George W. Bush, bu...
Jack Ruby Was a Prig Who Wanted Attention January 03, 2023
All I know about the best man in my wedding is he didn’t exist. Five days before John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, I got married for the second time. It was a Sunday, the day after I’d covered the SMU-Arkansas game at the Cotton Bowl, and J...
Spy, FDR Pal: Who Was Fritz Duquesne? January 02, 2023
Most South Africans, even those who studied history at school, have never heard of the enigmatic Boer who fought, spied and sabotaged his way through three cataclysmic wars.That seems a fairly strange historical legacy for a man who hunted big game w...
What to Expect When More JFK Archives Are Released December 16, 2022
For this nation’s army of conspiracy theorists, few long-secret government documents have whipped up so much suspicion in the 59 years since President John F. Kennedy’s death as the CIA’s massive, multivolume background file on assassin Lee Harvey Os...
Book Strives to Recreate Tension of Cuban Missile Crisis December 14, 2022
Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-20th century—the 13 days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the hear...
This Crime Was Very Nearly Perfect December 12, 2022
n the pre-dawn darkness of December 11, 1978, a stolen black Ford Econoline lingered outside New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Inside, several men waited for a signal, their faces covered in black ski masks.Finally, at 3:12 AM, the si...
Nixon Used JFK Assassination as Threat to CIA November 22, 2022
The Washington Post dubbed it “the smoking gun tape.” It was the recording that doomed the presidency of Richard Nixon. The transcript of a conversation that took place on June 23, 1972, when made public by Supreme Court order in July 1974, became th...
'I Know That Guy:' Revelations From Oswald's Friend November 22, 2022
Those alive when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news the president had been shot. For Hoover fellow Paul Gregory, then a 21-year-old college student at the Univ...
When NFL Cowboys Were Treated as Criminals November 22, 2022
Two days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the Dallas Cowboys played the Browns in front of angry, anguished and hostile fans in Cleveland. Many blamed Dallas, a hotbed of far-right extremism in the ...
Why JFK Shooting 'Earwitnesses' Don't Agree November 22, 2022
Earwitnesses to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) did not agree about the location of the gunman even though their judgments about the number and timing of the gunshots were reasonably consistent. Even earwitnesses at the same...
