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Portions of Kennedy FBI File May Stay Family Secret
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 12) -- What secrets still remain about one of America's most famous public figures? Before the FBI releases 3,000 pages of its file on Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, the family of the late political icon will have a chance to review them and make its case to keep some portions from being made public. The release of this first installment of Kennedy's file comes in response to several Freedom of Information Act requests made following the senator's death from brain cancer in 2009 at the age of 77. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images Ted Kennedy's family will have the opportunity to ...
Loyalists Wage Campaign to Stop Kennedy Miniseries
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Feb. 17) -- It might be the adulterous sex scene in the White House swimming pool that sent them over the edge. Or the line that has President John F. Kennedy saying he gets migraines unless he sleeps with a new woman every couple of days. But the proposed script of a new History channel miniseries has drawn the ire of progressive historians and bloggers, who are waging a campaign to stop a portrait about JFK that some are calling a "right-wing political hit job." AP The Kennedy clan gathered for this group shot at the Hyannis Port, Mass., home of Joseph P. Kennedy on Nov. 9, 1960. It ...
New Footage Shows JFK Arriving in Dallas in 1963
By not in system - AOL NewsDALLAS (Feb. 16) -- New color video footage showing President John F. Kennedy's arrival in Dallas the day he was assassinated is the best home movie ever made of the event, the curator of the Dallas JFK museum said. The short clip, shot on 8 mm film by a 15-year-old student, provides a rare, high-quality color close-up of John and Jackie Kennedy as they arrived in Dallas. The Sixth Floor Museum put the film on display for public viewing on Presidents Day. Embedded video from CNN Video Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, as his motorcade made its way through downtown Dallas. The footage shot ...
The Kennedy Brothers: Rest in Peace
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyIt took 46 years, but the three youngest Kennedy brothers are united again, the first anniversary since that horrifying November day in Dallas that they have rested in the same hallowed ground. It is often said that Americans of all ages remember where they were on November 22, 1963, that grim Friday when President Kennedy and the dream of Camelot were taken from us. Five years later, in a hotel lobby in Los Angeles, Bobby was cut down, an unthinkable sequel to us; a nightmare to a clan that had already lost its oldest son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., in World War II. ...
JFK's Bachelor Pad on the Market
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Washington, D.C., townhouse where John F. Kennedy first lived as a young congressman is on the market, according to GeorgetownMetropolitan.com. Kennedy, then in his early 30s, shared the three-story house from 1947 to 1949 with his younger sister, Eunice Kennedy, and Billy Sutton, an aide in Congress who had worked on his congressional campaign. Acccording to the John F. Kennedy Library, Kennedy lived in several different Georgetown homes during his time in the House and Senate, including the mansion he bought for Jacqueline Kennedy after their daughter Caroline was born. Missouri ...
In Politics, Is Sex the Lesser Evil?
By Linda Kulman - Politics DailyIn reading Emily Miller's list of best and worst D.C. sex scandals, I couldn't help but be reminded of the galleys I just read of Jed Mercurio's American Adulterer, a novel about JFK's numerous assignations during his time in the White House. (Disclosure: I got the galleys from a friend at Simon & Schuster, which is publishing the UK import in July.) The book was inspired by a comment Kennedy made to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan that he got a headache if he went three days without a woman. If the account of the 35th president's philandering is at all true, which of course it is, ...
Obama Following JFK's Model?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyPundits have been anxious to compare Barack Obama to previous leaders, but Robert Dallek's book "Unfinished Journey" -- about the life and presidency of John F. Kennedy -- includes a quote which struck me as especially interesting. The noteworthy excerpt was culled from political scientist Richard Neustadt's one-year assessment of Kennedy's presidential leadership, and after hearing Obama's inaugural address last Tuesday, it now seems especially noteworthy. Following is an excerpt:Part of Kennedy's success resulted in his sensible efforts to scale down public expectations of the future -- to ...
Yankees Fans Should Blame Republicans
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsWhen the Yankees are officially eliminated from the playoffs in a few weeks, there's going to be a lot of blame going around. Fans will blame Alex Rodriguez for never coming through in the clutch, Brian Cashman for never making the deal for Johan Santana, and Hank Steinbrenner for forcing Joe Girardi to move Joba Chamberlain to the starting rotation.They'll also be blaming the Rays and Red Sox for having superior teams. Still, there's one person who probably deserves more credit for the Yankees demise than anybody else, it's just that most Yankees fans probably don't even realize it. That man ...
Old School: Army-Navy 1962
By John Radcliff - AOL News"Old School" is the College Football FanHouse's irregular look back at the rich history of college football, usually through the medium of embeddable flash video. Check out the Old School archive for more famous plays and infamous hair.With the news that future Army vs. Navy games might take place in different cities around the country, it's probably a good time to look back at this historic rivalry in all it's glory. I'm big on tradition in college football. Some things are so big that they should be set in stone and never changed. But the Army-Navy game transcends college football , ...
Hamas 'Unendorses' Obama
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFor John McCain, it was a favorite staple of the campaign trail:"I think it is very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States."This assertion was based on an interview that a Hamas spokesman, Ahmed Yousef, gave to ABC in which he said:"Actually, we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will [win] the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle."Well, unfortunately for McCain, Hamas has now officially un-endorsed Obama after hearing the candidate's speech at AIPAC. Among other things, Obama suggested the Jerusalem should remain the undivided ...
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