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NEWS ABOUT: John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy stories: 66 news summaries

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Ex-Agent Claims Twist
in JFK Plot

Says Cuban killers, armed radical planned hits in Chicago

Nov 22, 07 6:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Feds dug up a plot to ice JFK in Chicago three weeks before he was killed in Dallas, ABC news reports. JFK's trip to the Windy City was nixed, but agents never passed on data about a Cuban hit squad and an armed radical to federal agents in Dallas. Yet... More »

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Secret Service • John F. Kennedy • Lee Harvey Oswald • JFK assassination • conspiracy theory

Evangelical Semantics Shadow Romney

In Southern pulpits, 'Mormon' doesn't always equal 'Christian'

Oct 30, 07 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mitt Romney is vying aggressively for the religious right's support, but experts are advising him not to overdo it. Political strategists and religious experts alike caution that it’s dangerous for the Mormon candidate to sell himself as a Christian. Bloomberg looks at the complicated intersection of politics, faith, vocabulary,... More »

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religious right • Mitt Romney • John F. Kennedy • Mormonism • Christian right • evangelicals

‘Cowardice’ Made LBJ
Grow War

Schlesinger diaries depict liberal flight as prez sought heroism

Sep 29, 07 10:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Johnson’s motives for escalating the Vietnam War were “psychological and political rather than military,” wrote insider Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The former Kennedy hand documented the flight of top liberals from LBJ, even as he psychoanalyzed the president’s 1966-1967 decision to play “the war to... More »

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Lyndon Johnson • John F. Kennedy • Vietnam War • Arthur Schlesinger Jr. • Dick Goodwin • George McGovern • Hubert Humphrey • Averell Harriman

Gospel Lives in the Oval Office

New biography reflects on Billy Graham's counsel to 8 of
last 9 presidents

Aug 29, 07 12:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Billy Graham has seen US leaders laid bare, from skinny-dipping with LBJ to long walks on the beach with GWB. A new book details the ailing 88-year-old preacher’s rendezvous with presidents past, including counseling Ford to pardon Nixon and advising Hillary Clinton to look past Monica Lewinsky. Graham’s... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Jimmy Carter • Lyndon Johnson • John F. Kennedy • religion • Billy Graham • evangelism • Richard Nixon • George HW Bush • Monica Lewinsky • Gerald Ford • George W. Bush

Mormon Faith Bedevils Romney Bid

Voters wary; rivals quick to take advantage (and apologize later)

Jun 20, 07 9:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mitt Romney is still having to explain and defend his religion on the campaign trail. In recent weeks, staffers for two GOP rivals sent out e-mails questioning Mormon beliefs (the candidates later apologized), notes ABC News. And Romney himself has had to battle misconceptions about his faith, especially with regard... More »

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Mitt Romney • presidential campaign • John F. Kennedy • religion • Joe Lieberman • Judaism • polygamy • Mormon • Catholicism

FBI Expert Reopens JFK Shooting

Bullet analysis used to rule out second
gunman is now discredited

May 17, 07 8:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Evidence proving that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone has been discredited by a research team using techniques unavailable to previous investigators. Bullet analysis used to rule out a second JFK assassin is called "fundamentally flawed" by the new team, led by the former chief metallurgy expert for the FBI,... More »

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FBI • John F. Kennedy • Lee Harvey Oswald • assassination • conspiracy theory

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