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The JFK-UFO Connection: Bogus Documents or Unanswered Questions?
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsDo you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here's one for you. And it's ongoing, so we don't yet know the ending. It involves President John F. Kennedy's interest in UFOs shortly before his death and an allegation that he may have angered officials in his administration when he asked for information on the subject. Recently, the FBI opened a new website, "The Vault," that lets you view a variety of documents, including those regarding UFOs. I looked into one document that appears to include a phony UFO story and mentioned how important it is to be extremely careful when looking at UFO ...
Opinion: Wisconsin Exposes Deeper State Budget Crisis
By not in system - AOL NewsIn the wake of the recent protests in Wisconsin and now several other states, Americans are taking a much closer look at the grim budget realities facing our states today. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker correctly points out that his state's current budget trajectory is unsustainable. But he's not alone. The financial state of the states is not encouraging. Driven by irresponsible state and local spending growth, which outpaced private-sector growth by nearly 90 percent over the past decade, current budget deficits are estimated to exceed $100 billion for the upcoming fiscal year. Bad as they ...
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 ...
Mourners Recall Sarge Shriver's Charity, Idealism
By not in system - AOL NewsPOTOMAC, Md. -- R. Sargent Shriver was always an optimist, pioneering the Peace Corps and running the War on Poverty during the turbulent 1960s - an idealist even as the running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket doomed for failure. At his funeral Mass on Saturday, mourners from philanthropist and musician Bono to Vice President Joe Biden to former President Bill Clinton honored a man who dedicated his life to serving others. The celebration was filled with songs, laughter and fond memories. "Fifty years ago, President Kennedy told us we should ask what we can do for our country," ...
New Psych Exam Ordered for Man Accused of Stalking Caroline Kennedy's Daughter
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- A 41-year-old man accused of sending flowers, balloons and electronic love notes to Caroline Kennedy's college-age daughter isn't dangerous, but it's not clear that he understands why he's been charged with stalking JFK's granddaughter, his lawyer said today. A judge in Manhattan Criminal Court ordered Naeem Ahmed, a naturalized citizen originally from Pakistan, to undergo a further psychiatric evaluation. Harry Hamburg, AP Tatiana Schlossberg, 20, has been bombarded with love messages from a 41-year-old man who was ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation ...
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 ...
Presidential Commissions: Gone and Often Forgotten
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- As presidential commissions go, the Oil Spill Commission's moment in the sun may have lasted longer than most. It convened its first session when the oil was still gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, then staged a series of hearings, enlivened by its sharp-spoken co-chairmen, that held the spotlight on its work. But with the release of the panel's final report, the show is over. In 60 days, the commission officially goes out of business. Its records will be trucked off to the National Archives in College Park, Md., where they will join the records of hundreds of other presidential ...
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 ...
Opinion: 2 Tucson Shooting Myths Debunked
By Michael Medved - AOL NewsThe debate between left and right on contributing factors in the Tucson shootings has unfolded along utterly predictable and thoroughly unenlightening lines. Liberals accuse conservatives of overheated, gun-related rhetoric that created a hostile, edgy climate that may have encouraged the killer. The right responds that there's no evidence of Jared Lee Loughner's conservative orientation and that liberals make equally reprehensible and irresponsible statements. Neither side bothers to examine two highly dubious core assumptions: That the Barack Obama era constitutes a uniquely ...
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