November 22, 2013. John F. Kennedy was many things, but a great president was not among them. (Associated Press). Fifty years ago Friday, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy. The assassination was a tragedy -- and it turned the target into something of a secular political saint. read more
Yes, he was an excellent president, a great idealist, youthful and intelligent. The sad truth is that Lyndon Johnson who was backing the assassination of Kennedy, took credit for many of the civil rights and other important issues that JFK worked hard to accomplish. read more
John F. Kennedy was many things, but a great president was not among them. (Associated Press) Fifty years ago Friday, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy. read more
One of the sailors was so badly hurt that he couldn’t swim. JFK towed him all the way, clenching a strap from the man’s lifejacket in his teeth. That’s leadership. As the very new president of the United States, Kennedy held a summit in Vienna with Nikita Khrushchev, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union in June 1961. read more