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Bombshell Tapes May Reveal New Marilyn Monroe Mystery
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsDid Marilyn Monroe take a mystery trip aboard Frank Sinatra's private jet the very weekend she died? A trip during which she spent an intense night at the singer's retreat with mobster Sam Giancana? That's one of the suggestions made on the recently disclosed tapes featuring a close confidante of Monroe's -- who was also one of the most famous stylists in history. The legendary screen star's passing on Aug. 5, 1962, remains, arguably, the most mysterious and controversial death in Hollywood history. STR / AFP / Getty Images Undated file photo of American actress Marilyn Monroe ...
Rare Footage Captures John F. Kennedy on His Last Night Alive
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe night before he was assassinated, President John F. Kennedy stopped at the Rice Hotel in Houston to meet with local Hispanic leaders and to deliver a short speech. The president's appearance around 9 p.m. on Nov. 21, 1963, was captured by a home movie camera, and now that footage has been made public for the first time. Roy Botello shot the 8mm film and then kept it in a drawer for 47 years, according to ABC News. Last year he donated it to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, an institution in Dallas dedicated to the JFK assassination. The museum restored the footage and has made it ...
Super Bowl Journey Ignites Memories of JFK Assassination
By Terence Moore - AOL NewsDALLAS -- Since the Cowboys are noted for everything from players to cheerleaders, they've been America's Team. You've also had an iconic television drama named after these city limits. And, with the Packers in town, this comes to mind: Courtesy of a $1.2 billion stadium large enough to house everybody in Green Bay, Wis. (100,000), the locals have spent this week hosting a glitzy Super Bowl. Still, despite the slew of captivating people, places and things they've had around Dallas for nearly the past half century to divert attention away from November 22, 1963, it's always there -- especially ...
JFK's Ambulance Sells for $132,000 at Auction
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA car collector who wanted to own a "piece of history" has paid $132,000 at auction for the 1963 Pontiac Bonneville ambulance that purportedly carried President John F. Kennedy's body after his assassination. The U.S. Navy ambulance featured in iconic photos taken on the night of Nov. 22, 1963, showing the newly widowed first lady, Jackie Kennedy, looking dazed and with her husband's blood still on her dress. She stood next to the car, holding her brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy's hand, as they watched the dead president's casket being loaded into the ambulance. The Barrett-Jackson auction ...
John Boehner Gets Emotional (Again) at JFK Event
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyHouse Speaker John Boehner, who grew up in a family of Kennedy Democrats in Ohio, appeared to tear up at an event at the U.S. Capitol marking the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's inauguration speech. Boehner was seated next to his predecessor, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, inside the Capitol Rotunda. About 15 minutes into the Thursday ceremony, he appeared to become emotional and wiped his eyes, The Hill newspaper and the Washington Post reported. Despite his rather stern demeanor, Boehner has been known to choke up at landmark occasions -- such as when he became speaker -- and also in ...
John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address: Famous Quotes From the Speech [VIDEO]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Fifty years ago today, on a frigid morning in Washington, D.C., newly sworn-in President John F. Kennedy offered those iconic words to the nation in his inaugural address. "With those words, John F. Kennedy helped launch the modern American presidency," Politics Daily's Carl Cannon wrote. The address is widely recognized as one of the most iconic speeches in American history, and today the country celebrates Kennedy's inaugural words, which will likely continue to be dissected and ...
Opinion: President Kennedy's Inaugural, Then and Now
By Bob Lehrman - AOL NewsFifty years ago Thursday, a White House aide went out to the east side of the Capitol, climbed steps shoveled clean of snow, and sat down to watch a new president deliver the most remembered inaugural address in history. That was appropriate. Ted Sorensen, who died last year, wrote much of JFK's speech, the anniversary of which has brought the usual enthusiastic reminders of its iconic status and influence. "These ideals ... still resonate," one historian said recently, pointing to its "call to service ... emphasis on change and ... faith in the future." But is that the right way to ...
Sargent Shriver's Death Severs the Last Major Link to the Kennedy Years
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyMinutes after Wyoming's 15 votes vaulted him over the top at the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, John Kennedy arrived, under police escort, at the cottage that served as his political campaign center. As campaign chronicler Theodore White recounted, "Kennedy loped into the cottage with his light dancing step, as young and lithe as springtime. . . . He descended the steps of the split-level cottage where his brother Bobby and his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver were chatting, waiting for him." The death Tuesday of 95-year-old Sargent Shriver – who accomplished far more than any ...
JFK Library Goes Digital on 50th Anniversary of Camelot
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe JFK Library and Museum has unveiled the nation's largest online presidential archives, making the writings, speeches and personal correspondence of John Fitzgerald Kennedy available to more people than ever before. Fifty years after Kennedy's inauguration on Jan. 20, 1961, the days of his presidency have come alive online. Visitors to the digital library can view the president's most famous speeches, click through telegrams from civil rights leader Medgar Evers imploring Kennedy to get tougher on racial discrimination and listen in on his conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt about the ...
Brother: Destroy Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe brother of Lee Harvey Oswald says Oswald's coffin belongs to him and never should have been sold at auction as a kind of historical souvenir. Instead, Robert Oswald says the coffin that once held his brother, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, should be destroyed. The casket was sold last week for $86,469 at a California action to an anonymous bidder. Charley Gallay, Getty Images The brother of Lee Harvey Oswald says Oswald's coffin "should have been destroyed years ago, and that is what I desire now." "This is not about money on my part," Oswald told The ...
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