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Dangerous Donald: A Clear and Present Danger?
Who’s Committing Treason? In November 1963 a few short days before President John Kennedy visited Dallas where he would be tragically assassinated, thousands of handbills like these were distributed...
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JFK and the Summer of High Hopes
JFK in the swim. Photo by Bill Beebe/Los Angeles Times Archives?UCLA A Favorite From the Vault The sizzling summer of 1960 was dominated by the equally hot Presidential race between John F. Kennedy and...
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Kennedy Nixon Debate – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
The 1960 television debate between Kennedy and Nixon was the presidential debate that proved a picture is worth a thousand words. The 1960 presidential debate was an unprecedented event. For the...
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Color Me Hopeful- Remembering the Kennedy Inauguration
#TurnHimOff Ratings are what Donald Trump understands. Protest in your own home on inauguration day. Turn off your TV Tomorrow is a day of no TV for me. Inauguration day, 2017 my TV goes dark. For over...
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Crisis and the Oval Office- the Cuban Missile Crisis
Once upon a time real national emergencies were shared with us by our President in the oval office. Seated behind the ornately carved Resolute desk, it signaled that these were somber, sobering...
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The Wild West of Presidential Convention 1960
National party conventions were once wild west spectacles. Exactly 60 years ago I watched my very first presidential convention on television when a fresh-faced democratic Senator won his party’s...
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Remembering JFK and My Weekly Reader
“My Weekly Reader” Special Memorial Section for President John Kennedy December 1963 While others relied on Walter Cronkite for their news of the Kennedy Assassination, My Weekly Reader was the...
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November 22, 1963 An Unforgettable Weekend
The iconic George Lois Esquire Magazine Cover from May 1967. Lois was to comment that the cover represented “the moment when all American kids started to grow up with live violence in his carpeted den...
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How a Kennedy Run For President Makes This Kennedyophile Want to Run For the...
I never dreamed hearing the name Kennedy announced for a run for President would elicit anything but sheer excitement for me. Instead, when anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. threw his hat in the 2024 presidential...
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Sixty Years Ago November 22, 1963 An Ordinary Day Turned Extraordinary
Friday, November 22, 1963, began as ordinarily as any other school day. That crisp N.Y. fall morning gave no indication that 60 years later it would be one burned into my consciousness. By afternoon,...
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