Trump frustrated by intelligence community’s JFK secrecy
It was a showdown 25 years in the making: With the world itching to finally get a look at classified Kennedy assassination files, and the deadline for their release just hours away, intelligence officials were still angling for a way to keep their secrets.
JFK files: British newspaper got mystery call before killing
A British newspaper received an anonymous phone call about “big news” in the United States minutes before President John F. Kennedy was shot in 1963, newly released files on the assassination say.
Trump coy on what’s coming out on JFK assassination
President Donald Trump is playing it coy on what people will see from long-secret JFK assassination-era files.
Trump has no plans to block scheduled release of JFK records
President Donald Trump says he doesn’t plan to block the scheduled release of thousands of never publicly seen government documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Local voices: The JFK assassination: A reporter’s perspective
The world has turned over many times since that fateful day in Dallas 50 years ago when President Kennedy was killed. Anyone who was old enough to understand what happened knows exactly where they were and what they were doing when they first heard the president was dead.
Our view: JFK’s unfulfilled destiny
In the course of U.S. History, there have been 20 assassination plots against the President of the United States and four assassinations — Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865), James Garfield (shot July 2, 1881, died Sept. 19, 1881), William McKinley (shot Sept. 6, 1901, died Sept. 14 , 1901) and John F. Kennedy (Nov. 22, 1963).
The assassination of John F. Kennedy: Nov. 22, 1963 is a moment frozen in time for many
The afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963 wasn’t all that different from any other day in Columbus.
Nancy Johnson, a stay-at-home mom and part-time student at Mississippi State College for Women (now MUW) had one eye on her ironing, the other on her favorite soap opera, “As The World Turns.”
Commentary: Clint Hill’s leap into history
We use the term “dramatic irony” in plays when the audience learns from one character something that another character does not know, usually to his detriment. In the field of history, the reader always knows more than the people he’s reading about. He knows how the whole thing turns out — something the historical figures cannot know.
Charlie Mitchell: Assassin in Dallas created the nation we know today
OXFORD — “My fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” Especially this
Ex-Associated Press writer recalls serving as Lee Harvey Oswald pallbearer
FORT WORTH, Texas — On a gloomy November afternoon, I helped carry the inexpensive wooden casket of Lee Harvey Oswald to a grave on a
Obama, dignitaries pay tribute to JFK legacy
WASHINGTON — Honoring the legacy of John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the assassinated president’s gravesite as a nation remembers that
Slimantics: A sobering response, then and now
Fifty years ago Friday, the President of the United States was shot and killed in Dallas and some of the schoolchildren in segregated schools throughout
For baby boomers, JFK death ripples still
We cannot get past it, we Americans. Not a half century later. Maybe not even ever. The president with the easy grin in whom so
Rather not invited to join CBS Kennedy coverage
NEW YORK — CBS News hasn’t invited Dan Rather back to participate in its 50th-anniversary coverage of the Kennedy assassination, but images of the longtime
50 years later, finding profit in ‘truth’ on John F. Kennedy case
On the very day John F. Kennedy died, a cottage industry was born. Fifty years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, it’s still thriving.
Dallas tears down ex-home of JFK assassin Oswald
A handful of history buffs and curious onlookers watched Monday as a bulldozer tore through the walls of a dilapidated apartment building where Lee Harvey Oswald lived a few months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.