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Nov 22, 2023 · The assassination of John F. Kennedy, which took place sixty years ago on November 22, remains a tragic and indelible blot on our nation’s history. It’s also, judging from the nigh-uncountable books that take the event—or some version of it—as their subject, an irrepressible part of the American imagination. In the six decades since ...
Nov 22, 2023 · It's been 60 years since President John F Kennedy was shot dead. Ex-Secret Service agent Paul Landis, a direct witness to the assassination, has revealed new details about what he saw. Historian ...
Sep 13, 2023 · Paul Landis, an 88-year-old former Secret Service agent who witnessed the president's death at close range, says in new memoir that he took a bullet from the car after Mr Kennedy was shot, and ...
- Kayla Epstein
- Television Surpassed Newspapers
- Dawn of The Conspiracies Era
- A Permanent Distrust in Federal Government
- A Full-On U.S. Military Engagement in Vietnam
- The Great Society
Since the days of The New England Courant, newspapers had been Americans' primary source of news for over 200 years. That all changed upon Kennedy's assassination, which was the longest uninterrupted news event in TV history until the 9/11 attacks. America tuned in to watch Walter Cronkite report on the developments of the president's assassination...
I'm not going to bother detailing every conspiracy theory out there, but suffice it to say that along with such a tragic event came every paranoid speculation of a bigger conspiracy afoot, because so many people simply couldn't accept the simplicity of the assassination. The hysteria of it all has truly been astounding, culminating into the biggest...
I've heard several progressives claim that the saddest outcome of the Kennedy assassination and the investigation (or lack thereof) produced a permanent distrust and shattered the American people's confidence in their own federal government. That's an interesting observation. The Warren Commissionthat was put together and tasked with investigating ...
Many loyalists claim that had Kennedy not been assassinated in '63, the escalation of an American military presence in the Vietnam War would not have occurred. While it's hard to prove, they're probably right. No doubt Kennedy wanted success in foreign policy to be the crown jewel of his legacy, but his presidency got off to a very rough start in t...
Although the assassination and its aftermath embedded a permanent distrust of federal government into the social fabric of America for decades to come, the immediate results in Washington arguably produced one of the most progressive eras of legislation in U.S. history next to the 1910s and 1930s. Although the focus of the Kennedy administration wa...
- John Giokaris
Nov 22, 2023 · To mark the 60th anniversary of JFK's death, revisit an exclusive BBC interview with the US president's mother, Rose, who movingly describes the family's intense pride and sorrow.
- Myles Burke
Nov 20, 2023 · Speaking at the dedication ceremony in 1965, Queen Elizabeth II described JFK as a man “who in death my people still mourn and whom in life they loved and admired”. In fact, Britain launched ...
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Jul 17, 2020 · Blaine, Gerald and Lisa McCubbin. The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence. New York: Gallery Books, 2010. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in an open limousine in Dallas, Texas. This event has been written about in hundreds of books, detailed in documentaries and ...
