Young people today know John F. Kennedy primarily for being assassinated and for his presumed dalliance with Marilyn Monroe. And that's a shame, because he meant something far different to an entire generation of Americans, myself included, who were young forty years ago. When JFK was nominated for President in 1960, he was forty-three years old. He cut his hair to look older … [Read more...] about John F. Kennedy: An Appreciation
John F. Kennedy
Film Forum: JFK vs. the Joint Chiefs in Thirteen Days
On the morning of Saturday, October 20, 1962, I was in a station wagon with my family en route to Milwaukee's Billy Mitchell Field to hear President John F. Kennedy make a campaign speech for Democratic congressional candidates. As we moved slowly in a long line of cars to the airport, the radio reported that JFK had come down with a "slight cold" in Chicago and was returning … [Read more...] about Film Forum: JFK vs. the Joint Chiefs in Thirteen Days
The Other Kennedy
For the last 40 years, Americans have been fixated on the trials, tribulations and tragedies of the Kennedy family. Yet as the nation has kept its eyes focused on the Bobbys, Teddys and John-Johns of America's "Royal Family," a new Kennedy leader has quietly emerged. And this time, it's a woman. ℘℘℘ Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the eldest child … [Read more...] about The Other Kennedy
Our Jack
By Pete Hamill, Contributor
Pete Hamill writes on JFK Somewhere in the shadowy land between myth and history lies the domicile of John F. Kennedy. The first United States president of Irish-Catholic descent, Kennedy was a man of many faces: war hero, orator, lover, creator, and visionary. He had it all, and it was all taken away, but in the end he gained immortality. That day I was in Ireland, in the … [Read more...] about Our Jack