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2 days ago · In addition to John’s untimely death, it was the scene in July 1969 of a murky event involving another family member in Chappaquiddick, on the eastern end of the island: after a night of partying, in a thick fog like the one that swallowed John, Senator Ted Kennedy’s car crashed into a bridge, although he lived to tell the tale.
3 days ago · Ted Kennedy liked to think of himself as a loyal, party-line Democrat. But there was a major crack in the foundation that was Democratic Party unity. The progressive wing of the party was flexing its muscles over an issue near and dear to Ted Kennedy’s heart: health care.
2 days ago · On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
4 days ago · Jack Kennedy Schlossberg is the 31-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy and the son of Caroline Kennedy. He was recently the subject of internet rumors claiming he dated pop singer...
1 day ago · Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother U.S. President John F. Kennedy (1961–63) and later a U.S. senator (1965–68). He was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1968.
4 days ago · In his commencement address at American University on June 10, 1963, President Kennedy called on the Soviet Union to work with the United States to achieve a nuclear test ban treaty and help reduce the considerable international tensions and the specter of nuclear war at that time.
3 days ago · At an Independence Day celebration at historic Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1962, President Kennedy delivered an address on the importance of the Declaration of Independence to contemporary Americans. “To read it today,” he said, “is to hear a trumpet call.
