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Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot sells for $137,500 at auction
Read full article: Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot sells for $137,500 at auctionNewly emerged film footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway after he was fatally wounded has sold at auction for $137,500.
Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot is set to go to auction
Read full article: Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot is set to go to auctionFilm footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway after he was fatally wounded has emerged.
What to watch on the Democratic National Convention's second day in Chicago
Read full article: What to watch on the Democratic National Convention's second day in ChicagoDemocrats say they will lay out the 2024 election as “a choice between two very different visions of America” on the Democratic National Convention’s second night.
Trump rally gunman looked online for information about Kennedy assassination, FBI director says
Read full article: Trump rally gunman looked online for information about Kennedy assassination, FBI director saysThe gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is believed to have done a Google search one week before the shooting of “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?”.
A look at the history of presidential assassination attempts in America
Read full article: A look at the history of presidential assassination attempts in AmericaBefore Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, there have been multiple instances of political violence targeting U.S. presidents, former presidents and major party presidential candidates.
Kennedy family makes ‘crystal clear’ its Biden endorsement in attempt to deflate RFK Jr.’s candidacy
Read full article: Kennedy family makes ‘crystal clear’ its Biden endorsement in attempt to deflate RFK Jr.’s candidacyPresident Joe Biden has accepted endorsements from at least 15 members of the Kennedy political family.
JFK assassination remembered 60 years later by surviving witnesses to history, including AP reporter
Read full article: JFK assassination remembered 60 years later by surviving witnesses to history, including AP reporterSome of the last surviving witnesses to the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are among those sharing their stories as the nation marks the 60th anniversary.
Man arrested after trespassing twice in one day at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s home in Los Angeles
Read full article: Man arrested after trespassing twice in one day at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s home in Los AngelesPolice say they have arrested a man who trespassed twice in one day at the California home of independent presidential candidate Robert F.
Biden and Harris will meet with King's family on the March on Washington's 60th anniversary
Read full article: Biden and Harris will meet with King's family on the March on Washington's 60th anniversaryPresident Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will observe Monday's 60th anniversary of the March on Washington by meeting with organizers and relatives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The White House says all of King’s children have been invited.
July Fourth for presidents has been a day for golf, fishing, speeches and one very upset stomach
Read full article: July Fourth for presidents has been a day for golf, fishing, speeches and one very upset stomachThrough history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public.
Jill Biden honors Jacqueline Kennedy's preservation legacy
Read full article: Jill Biden honors Jacqueline Kennedy's preservation legacyFirst lady Jill Biden has paid tribute to predecessor Jacqueline Kennedy for her pivotal role in preventing the teardown of historic buildings on iconic Lafayette Square near the White House decades ago.
US official says Solomon Islands leader 'missed opportunity'
Read full article: US official says Solomon Islands leader 'missed opportunity'The U.S. deputy secretary of state says the prime minister of the Solomon Islands “missed an important opportunity” by failing to attend a memorial service to mark the anniversary of a key World War II battle, amid concerns the South Pacific island nation is building closer ties with China.
US sends Sherman, Kennedy to visit the Solomon Islands
Read full article: US sends Sherman, Kennedy to visit the Solomon IslandsThe U.S. is sending a high-profile diplomatic delegation to visit the Solomon Islands next week led by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and including Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy.
Caroline Kennedy says US needs to engage more in the Pacific
Read full article: Caroline Kennedy says US needs to engage more in the PacificNew U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy said Friday the United States needs to engage more with the Pacific region at a time when China is asserting its presence.
Spidernauts and space dogs: What happens to the creatures of spaceflight
Read full article: Spidernauts and space dogs: What happens to the creatures of spaceflightAnimal spaceflights paved the way for the first human astronauts, and today, creatures big and small continue to space travel, advancing our knowledge of how the zero-gravity environment impacts all beings and aiding research down on Earth.
JFK’s Harvard sweater sold at auction for more than $85,000
Read full article: JFK’s Harvard sweater sold at auction for more than $85,000This undated photo released by RR Auction shows a Harvard University letter sweater that once belonged to former President John F. Kennedy, up for auction between Feb. 11-18, 2021, by the Boston-based auction firm. (Nikki Brickett/RR Auction via AP)BOSTON – John F. Kennedy’s Harvard University sweater, given away to a television cameraman who mentioned that he was chilly while interviewing Jacqueline Kennedy, has sold at auction for more than $85,000. The crimson wool cardigan, featuring a large black block-letter “H” and eight white mother-of-pearl buttons, was one of several mementos from U.S. presidents sold during a President's Day auction that ended Thursday, according to Boston-based RR Auction. AdJFK's Harvard sweater, with his surname sewn into the collar, was acquired by Herman Lang, a CBS cameraman who filmed an interview with Jacqueline Kennedy in 1964, the year after the 35th president's assassination in Dallas. It is believed that because the interview was outdoors, Lang mentioned that he was cold and was offered the sweater, according to RR Auction.
A quirky Presidents Day sale: Washington’s hair, JFK sweater
Read full article: A quirky Presidents Day sale: Washington’s hair, JFK sweater(Nikki Brickett/RR Auction via AP)BOSTON – It's almost Presidents Day, and now there's a chance to own a quirky piece of White House history. Boston-based RR Auction said online bidding gets underway Thursday and runs through Feb. 18. RR Auction spokesperson Mike Graff said the collection “honors America’s esteemed commanders-in-chief." Last year, RR Auction sold a lock of Lincoln’s hair wrapped in a bloodstained telegram about his 1865 assassination to an unidentified buyer for $81,000. Lang mentioned he was cold, and one of the former first lady's staffers brought him the cardigan, RR Auction says.
WATCH: Poet Amanda Gorman recites ‘The Hill We Climb’ at inauguration of President Joe Biden
Read full article: WATCH: Poet Amanda Gorman recites ‘The Hill We Climb’ at inauguration of President Joe BidenThe 22-year-old Gorman referenced everything from Biblical scripture to “Hamilton,” and at times echoed the oratory of John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Did you catch the 2 @HamiltonMusical references in the inaugural poem? “That day gave me a second wave of energy to finish the poem,” Gorman told the AP. Penguin Young Readers announced Wednesday that “The Hill We Climb” will be published in a special edition this spring. Two other books come out in September — the illustrated “Change Sings” and a volume of her inaugural poem and other works.
KSAT Kids: Today in History, Jan. 14
Read full article: KSAT Kids: Today in History, Jan. 141929: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the U.S. first lady from 1961 until 1963 as the wife of President John F. Kennedy, is born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Southampton, New York. Five years after President Kennedy's assassination, she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and they remained married until his death in 1975. A fashion icon also known for her contributions to the arts and preservation of historic architecture, she had a career as a book editor during the last two decades of her life before her death on May 19, 1994. (Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-21796)
PHOTOS: 60 years ago, JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald had funerals on same day
Read full article: PHOTOS: 60 years ago, JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald had funerals on same dayLee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, but it might not be an obvious fact to many that Oswald and Kennedy actually had their respective funerals on the same day.
KSAT Kids: Today in History, Nov. 23
Read full article: KSAT Kids: Today in History, Nov. 23Today is Monday, Nov. 23, the 328th day of 2020. On Nov. 23, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 2000, in a setback for Al Gore, the Florida Supreme Court refused to order Miami-Dade County officials to resume hand-counting its election-day ballots. Meanwhile, Gore’s lawyers argued in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that the high court should stay out of the Florida election controversy. (Milosevic died in March 2006 while his trial was in progress.)
KSAT Kids: Today in History, Oct. 22
Read full article: KSAT Kids: Today in History, Oct. 22Today is Thursday, Oct. 22, the 296th day of 2020. Rock musician Greg Hawkes is 68. Rock musician Cris Kirkwood is 60. Rock musician Rickard (correct) Goransson (Carolina Liar) is 37. Rock musician Zac Hanson (Hanson) is 35.
KSAT Kids: Today in History, Oct. 16
Read full article: KSAT Kids: Today in History, Oct. 16Today is Friday, Oct. 16, the 290th day of 2020. On Oct. 16, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba. In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a group of 21 men in a raid on Harpers Ferry in western Virginia. In 1901, Booker T. Washington dined at the White House as the guest of President Theodore Roosevelt, whose invitation to the Black educator sparked controversy. In 1995, a vast throng of Black men gathered in Washington, D.C. for the “Million Man March” led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
KSAT Kids: Today in History, Oct. 7
Read full article: KSAT Kids: Today in History, Oct. 7In 1916, in the most lopsided victory in college football history, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222-0 in Atlanta. (The hijackers shot and killed Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish-American tourist in a wheelchair, and pushed him overboard, before surrendering on Oct. Rock musician Kevin Godley (10cc) is 75. Singer John Mellencamp is 69. Rock musician Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) is 67.
President Trump is on the mend, but we couldn’t help but wonder: How many U.S. presidents have died while in office?
Read full article: President Trump is on the mend, but we couldn’t help but wonder: How many U.S. presidents have died while in office?But we couldn’t help but wonder: How many presidents have died while in office? Vice President John Tyler took the oath of office after Harrison’s death and became president. Vice President Andrew Johnson was sworn in as president following Lincoln’s death. Vice President Calvin Coolidge then became president. Franklin D. RooseveltAfter winning a record fourth presidential election, Roosevelt died suddenly in April 1945 of a stroke.
Of presidents and health, history replete with secrecy, lies
Read full article: Of presidents and health, history replete with secrecy, lies(AP Photo, File)WASHINGTON – Throughout American history, an uncomfortable truth has been evident: Presidents have lied about their health. But with an election coming on, Roosevelt and the White House staff issued a statement saying the problem was far less serious. The first known instance of a so-called pool reporter inside the White House was in 1881 when James A. Garfield was shot. As he lay in bed, Associated Press reporter Franklin Trusdell sat outside the president's sick room, listening to him breathe and sharing updates with other correspondents. “I listen for every sound,” Trusdell wrote to his wife in a note about his overnight Garfield watch at the White House.
History on screen: East Germany through its filmmakers' eyes
Read full article: History on screen: East Germany through its filmmakers' eyesIn this Wednesday, June 17, 2020 photo Gunnar Dedio, German film producer and managing director of PROGRESS Film GmbH poses for a photo between rolls of film in the archive of PROGRESS Film, in Leipzig, Germany. A new project is underway to digitize thousands of East German newsreels, documentaries and feature films 30 years after Germanys reunification. The East German Augenzeuge, or Eyewitness, newsreel on the Kennedy visit trumpeted the prank as a triumph, scoffing that the American president got an “unexpected surprise instead of the great view into the East German capital promised by his Secret Service” and allegedly had to cut his visit from “20 minutes to five." Germany was divided into four occupation zones after World War II, the Soviet-influenced East Germany and West Germany's American, British and French sectors. In 1950, the year after East Germany was established as a country, the authorities formed another company, Progress, as a state monopoly to distribute DEFA films and to import foreign productions.
James Meredith film weighs 'complicated' civil rights figure
Read full article: James Meredith film weighs 'complicated' civil rights figureFILE - In this July 19, 2018, file photo, civil rights movement activist James Meredith, right, greets a friend with a black power salute as he takes a coffee break at a north Jackson, Miss., grocery store. It was one of the most violent moments of the Civil Rights Movement and it forever changed life in the American Deep South. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)RIO RANCHO, N.M. – A new documentary is diving into the complicated, and sometimes contradictory life of James Meredith, a Black civil rights figure who helped change Mississippi. It was one of the most violent moments of the Civil Rights Movement and Meredith's determination to enroll in Ole Miss forever transformed life in the American Deep South. “I hope that people will see this from the viewpoint from the first person ... almost as if they are James Meredith going through this.”___Russell Contreras is a member of The Associated Press’ Race and Ethnicity Team.
US Latino civil rights group moves 2021 convention online
Read full article: US Latino civil rights group moves 2021 convention onlineLULAC, the nation's oldest Latino civil rights organization, voted Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, to postpone its planned national convention in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2021 over uncertainty caused by COVID-19. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)RIO RANCHO, N.M. – The League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights group in the U.S., has decided to move its 2021 national convention online amid concerns and health orders caused by COVID-19. The state currently limits the number of people at large gatherings and LULAC national conventions typically attract thousands of activists. The group still plans to hold a national convention in Albuquerque in 2023 because the city and the LULAC's local chapters made financial commitments to hold an event in the city. LULAC national conventions and gatherings have attracted presidents, presidential candidates, and international leaders.
Reagan's age, Mitt's binders: Presidential debate highlights
Read full article: Reagan's age, Mitt's binders: Presidential debate highlightsFILE - In this Oct. 21, 1960 file photo taken a television in New York displays a debate between Republican presidential candidate Vice President Richard M. Nixon, left, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kennedy, D-Mass. The 1960 presidential election offered the country's first televised debates. Here are some of the most memorable moments in presidential debate history:THE FIRST TELEVISED DEBATEThe 1960 presidential election offered the country's first televised debate. THE KIDS ARE OFF-LIMITSDemocrat John Kerry's response to a question about homosexuality during a 2004 presidential debate against Republican incumbent George W. Bush caused a fight between him and Vice President Dick Cheney. The women detailed their allegations against the former president as Trump watched, his hands folded in front of him.
A trip down memory lane: These might be the 10 most unforgettable political ads
Read full article: A trip down memory lane: These might be the 10 most unforgettable political adsThere have been many ads that have gone down in history for how much they’ve struck people and shaped public opinion during a presidential election.
Letters reveal public distaste for booze in JFK White House
Read full article: Letters reveal public distaste for booze in JFK White HouseFILE - In this Dec. 6, 1960, file photo, President Dwight Eisenhower poses with President-elect John F. Kennedy at the White House in Washington, before a private conference. Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in 2020 have found a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK's embrace of cocktails at White House events. Case in point: Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum have found a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK's embrace of cocktails at White House events. Can we risk our national and international security on such potential incompetence?Eisenhower was no teetotaler, but historians say he presided over a largely cocktail-free White House. JFK Library archivists say the letters of protest began arriving after newspapers reported on Kennedy's first official event: a January 1961 reception honoring the new president's appointees.
Jackie O's island getaway sold to land preservation groups
Read full article: Jackie O's island getaway sold to land preservation groupsThe Marthas Vineyard estate of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is being sold to a pair of nonprofits that plan on turning the property into conservation land open to the public, officials said Thursday. The 304-acre Aquinnah property, among the largest and most spectacular undeveloped parcels on the island, will be known as the Squibnocket Pond Reservation," the statement said. Red Gate Farm was a sheep farm and hunting cabin when Kennedy Onassis bought it in 1979. It has been maintained by Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of Kennedy Onassis and President John F. Kennedy. We are excited to partner with two outstanding island organizations, and for the entire island community and the general public to experience its beauty."
Kennedy loss in Massachusetts may mark end of 'Camelot' era
Read full article: Kennedy loss in Massachusetts may mark end of 'Camelot' eraThe loss marks the first time a member of the political dynasty has come up short in a race for Congress in Massachusetts. The Kennedy legacy hung over the race, especially in the closing weeks, when Kennedy more explicitly invoked his pedigree including JFK; former U.S. Kennedy helped raise millions of dollars for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats campaign arm, during the 2018 midterm elections. Massachusetts voters may have rejected him, but few remaining House Democrats carry the same national fundraising appeal as Kennedy. In 1986, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend lost a U.S. House race in Maryland, and in 2002, Mark Kennedy Shriver also lost a congressional primary in Maryland.
Martin Luther King's traffic ticket changed history's course
Read full article: Martin Luther King's traffic ticket changed history's courseThe man was Martin Luther King Jr., and his citation on May 4, 1960, led to him being sentenced, illegally, to a chain gang. AdSmith later wrote that they were stopped because the officer saw her white face with a black man. Nixon had just been endorsed by Martin Luther King Sr., the leader of Ebenezer Baptist Church. But Nixon ignored their pleas for help, while Kennedy called Mrs. King to express his sympathy. AdAccording to The Gallup Poll, Black people voted 61% Democrat/39% Republican in 1956, and 68% Democrat/32% Republican in 1960.
Alamo Heights’ first JFK Memorial dedicated Thursday
Read full article: Alamo Heights’ first JFK Memorial dedicated ThursdayALAMO HEIGHTS, Texas – Along the curb on Broadway next to Cambridge Elementary School, Alamo Heights’ first John F. Kennedy memorial was dedicated Thursday. The memorial’s most striking feature is the iconic photograph etched in bronze that captured the moment the school’s awestruck fourth graders saw Kennedy. “It’s so much history for Alamo Heights,” Sumerlin said. I feel very complete right now.”JFK Monument Picture Courtesy: Jim Berg, Maj. W.M. Kardegg (Courtesy: Jim Berg, Maj. W.M.
Alamo Heights’ first JFK Memorial dedicated Thursday
Read full article: Alamo Heights’ first JFK Memorial dedicated ThursdayAlamo Heights’ first JFK Memorial dedicated ThursdayPublished: November 21, 2019, 5:40 pmAlong the curb on Broadway next to Cambridge Elementary School, Alamo Heights’ first John F. Kennedy memorial was dedicated Thursday.