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Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… or the radio on, and I hear them talking about the Kennedy assassination and I said, Why are they bringing that up … great, great advance men, whose father had worked for JFK [John F. Kennedy] and Bobby, Jimmy King—Did you speak to … them, that he was JFK. They didn’t know that JFK had been assassinated. It was the Kennedy mystique and they were just …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… that pool was created after the [John F.] Kennedy assassination. Helen Thomas was always there. Every time that … a pair of President Kennedy’s Tiffany cufflinks that said JFK on them. You’d recognize them. If you look at all those … old book in a used bookstore one time in Alexandria, on JFK [John Fitzgerald Kennedy] and his use of religion in …
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… Archives. Then on November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. On … addressing a joint session of Congress five days after the assassination, President Johnson announced his intention to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the Bay of Pigs Association want its flag back from the JFK [John F. Kennedy] Library? Schneider That was one, but …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… involved in Chile, but in some ways it started with the assassination of [Orlando] Letelier, here in D.C. That drove … had been, in some ways—the Latin American heritage of JFK [John Fitzgerald Kennedy]—an ideal democracy in Latin … always loved campaigning in West Virginia. From the time JFK won the primary there, I think it has had a special place …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… never have become law that year, because once Bobby was assassinated, Ted, understandably, went into the depths of … bipartisan. In those years after I was fully on staff, assassination threats were pervasive. We would get at least … followed by Kathleen’s accidental demise, then Jack was assassinated, then Bobby was assassinated, then his father …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… the major events occurring during this time, including the assassination attempt, the sale of the AWACs weapons system … I have good notes and very good tapes. Knott Well, the assassination events, that tape was fascinating. And that was … security. Up until that time, when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, there was no Secret Service protection for …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Knott Yes, right. Healy It all changed, I think, with the assassination, really. It began to change anyway, the … heard whether he might make a run for the Senate seat that JFK vacated? Was that in the air at all? Healy Oh yes, well, … My relationship with Bobby changed dramatically after the assassination. Knott Yes, that’s right. OK, yes, right. Healy …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Senator Glenn to break the news to his children about his assassination. That gives you a sense of how close they were. … Pryor to cast a similarly tough vote. He handed over the JFK [John Fitzgerald Kennedy] book Profiles in Courage. He … have a close connection to the Kennedys from his work with JFK. It seems like every time there’s an event in healthcare …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… appointed Benjamin A. Smith, II, the Mayor of Gloucester, JFK’s classmate at Harvard, to be the seat warmer. He … Knott Can I take you back to the period after Bobby’s assassination? Maybe you could tell us a little bit about … thing to do. Let’s take the subway and then go see the JFK Library. They loved it. It was a wonderful day. Knott Why …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the country to raise money for the construction of the JFK Library, and he asked if I would go and do that. I said I … that. Was that, obviously, up until the unfortunate assassination? What’s your impression of that time? Souliotis …
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… his conspiracy theories (including about his father's 1968 assassination) appeal to Trump and his advisors. The 47 th … then-potentially deadly and incurable bacterial infection, JFK's father, Joe, pulled political strings through his …
The Kennedys have often made their medical experiences a basis for health policy
Presidential Biographies
… John F. Kennedy in pre-World War II England, when JFK’s father served as US ambassador to the Court of St. … host JFK@100 May 21–23 in Boston Following the president’s assassination and the 1967 death of Ormsby Gore’s wife, …
A few days later an intriguing e-mail arrived from Dan Samuel, an elderly Englishman, retired in Connecticut. He described his long friendship with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and noted that he had saved a number of letters from her. Would I like to know more about them? Absolutely, I responded.
Presidential Biographies
… continued its repression of political opponents. Diem was assassinated in November 1963 in a military coup, an act that …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… think so, but then the language over—That it wasn’t JFK [John F. Kennedy] who achieved civil rights, it was LBJ … her record and blaming her for 9/11 or Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. The Senator pushed back and said, “You’re … President got more and more difficult and on the LBJ/MLK/JFK issue, the Senator suggested to the President that …
Public Events
… He had a gift for going to the people and he was assassinated in 1935, so before the great victory in 1936. … election that could have gone either way. FACTOID: JFK averaged 70.1% approval rate during 1961-1963 presidency …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… were going around the state reactivating all the JFK [John Fitzgerald Kennedy] secretaries and giving them a …
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… space, joined the Kennedy family’s large tribe of pets. 2. JFK loved to play word games with Caroline and John Jr. The … mother, who used to ask questions and play word games with JFK and his siblings at the dinner table,” Perry said. The … timing, Perry points out, is very poignant. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas just a few weeks after the recording. …
Miller Center scholar—and expert on all things Kennedy—Barbara Perry reveals little-known family secrets
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… would have remembered it. Riley Bobby or— Edelman Bobby. JFK [John F. Kennedy] I met once, I think, one of those times … that you talked about, they sound like they’re JFK people too. Was that the— Edelman The powers-that-be … upstate. Then, you know, lots of Ted Sorensen types, ex-JFK people— Berkowitz Who were in pretty bad shape too after …
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… of helping this major and the proscription against assassination. There was a very strong feeling, I know I felt … join into something that would in fact lead to Noriega’s assassination. And that, more than anything else, was one of … with Jack Valenti, did that come after the screening of JFK the movie? Gates I think so. Naftali What did you think …