The archive contains 40TB of material–some 200,000 document pages, 300 reels of audio tape, 300 museum artifacts, 72 reels of film and 1,500 photos. – A half-century has gone by since President John F. Kennedy declared his famous call to action on that frigid Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 1961: quot;Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. quot;
Next week, the Boston-based John F. Kennedy Library amp; Museu…
1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. Texas Gov. John Connally, riding in the same car as Kennedy, is seriously wounded.
A spectator unwittingly films the assassination on his 8mm home-movie camera, contributing one of the 20th century’s earliest and most significant pieces of user-generated [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in ‘Legacy of Secrecy,’ an adaptation of a book about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He will play the role of an FBI informant called Jack Van Laningham, who made friends with Carlos Marcello, a mafia boss who allegedly admitted to being involved in JFK”s 1963 murder, reports [...]
Raymond McGovern is a 27-year CIA veteran, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of St…
In the past six months, President Obama has revealed his towering intellect, basic decency and sophisticated world view. However, we have yet to observe the toughness and passion required to take on the forces that drove the U.S. and global economy into a ditch.
Walter Cronkite, the legendary CBS News anchor who died today at 92, reported on many historic events from the JFK assassination and the civil rights movement to the Vietnam War and Watergate.
Click through this slideshow of Cronkite’s iconic…
Obama’s words represent a continuation of the historic tradition of internationalism in the Democratic Party that has helped build America into the most powerful land on earth.
