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Sargent Shriver Dead at 95: 5 Facts on the Peace Corps' First Director [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsR. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps, has died at the age of 95. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003. A Navy veteran, Shriver's political career spanned decades. In 1953 he married Eunice Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy. They had five children, including Maria Shriver, wife of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Surge Desk has five facts about the late Sargent Shriver. 1. He was dedicated to public service and social programs In 1961 President Kennedy signed an executive order creating the Peace Corps and asked brother-in-law Shriver to ...
Ted Kennedy FBI Files: His Narrow Escape From Family's Plane-Crash Curse
By Byron Tau - Politics DailyBy my count, there have been at least four significant aviation accidents involving the Kennedy family. First, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (brother of John, Robert and Ted) died in a 1944 plane crash during World War II. Four years later, his sister died in a crash while vacationing in France. Then in 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and his sister-in-law died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. Today, newly released FBI documents recount the fourth plane crash involving the Kennedy clan: the 1964 accident that injured Ted Kennedy and Sen. Birch Bayh (father of outgoing Indiana ...
Ted Kennedy FBI Files: White Supremacists' Threats Zeroed in on Surviving Brother
By Byron Tau - Politics DailyNewly released FBI files on the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy show he was a magnet for threats by white supremacist groups unhappy with the pro-civil rights stance of the Democratic Party and the three Kennedy brothers during the 1960s. In FBI documents, a bureau informant reported that during a visit to the National Socialist White People's Party Headquarters in Arlington, Va., an unnamed woman said the senator "deserves the same as his brothers got." (Further context is unavailable from the report.) The woman went on to say that "the white people have to work like dogs so the ...
Ted Kennedy FBI Files: Kennedy Patriarch Phoned Feds to Check Rumor About Teddy
By Allan Lengel - Politics DailyWASHINGTON -- Joseph P. Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy dynasty, was close enough to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to call the bureau and check on a rumor regarding his son, according to FBI files released today. An FBI file dated May 11, 1954, said Kennedy called the bureau and spoke to an assistant director. Kennedy said he had learned that muckraking journalist Drew Pearson was going to write a story about his son "Teddy" that said he had not been admitted to school at Fort Holabird, Md., while in the Army because of an "adverse FBI report which linked him to a group of ...
Ted Kennedy FBI Files: Mafia 'Pulled the Trigger' on JFK, Plotted Ted's Death
By Byron Tau - Politics DailySatirical newspaper The Onion once mocked the myriad conspiracy theories surrounding President John F. Kennedy's death with the headline "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons." Merits of these assassination theories aside, it's clear that the conspiracy mindset was ingrained in the American psyche soon after the 1963 shooting in Dallas. Information from Ted Kennedy's FBI files, just released today, will do little to dispel that mindset, making numerous references to Mafia conspiracies to kill members of the Kennedy family, including Ted. Most of the information ...
Ted Kennedy FBI Files: Chappaquiddick as It Unfolded, But No Juicy Secrets
By Byron Tau - Politics DailyIt would be tantamount to journalistic malpractice if any serious reading of Ted Kennedy's FBI file didn't start with Chappaquiddick. Chappaquiddick is political shorthand for the 1969 car accident that left a young woman dead and seriously imperiled Ted Kennedy's political ambitions for higher office. Unfortunately, the FBI file on the case reveals nothing new, though it does provide some interesting newspaper clippings on the scandal as it unfolded. The FBI didn't open an investigation into the Chappaquiddick incident, but it did collect about 40 contemporary newspaper accounts of the ...
FBI File Reveals Ted Kennedy Received Death Threats
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe FBI has released a file containing about 2,000 pages of previously secret information about the late Sen. Ted Kennedy on its website. The file reveals that the senator received death threats in 1985, five years after his failed presidential bid. The threats came from a Michigan woman who sent letters of warning to the Secret Service, and whom the agency considered "armed and dangerous." Other threats began in the years following the assassinations of his two older brothers. President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles ...
LAPD Regrets RFK Death Shirt Display
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(March 3) -- The Kennedys were offended, and the Los Angeles Police Department apologized for showcasing clothing worn by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1968. Kennedy's dress shirt, tie and jacket were put on display this week at the California Homicide Investigators Association Conference in Las Vegas. The exhibition, "Behind-The-Scenes: The LAPD Homicide Experience," showcased evidence from notorious cases during the past 100 years, including actress Marilyn Monroe's death, the Manson family murders and the O.J. Simpson saga. AP Sen. Robert F. Kennedy talks to campaign ...
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