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John F. Kennedy
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  • The helo lifted off and took us back to the John F. Kennedy.†   (source)
  • First he rang Federal Judge Woodrow Seals, a feisty old guy who had been appointed by President John F. Kennedy.†   (source)
  • Brown, which is used to dealing with real celebrities, like John Kennedy Jr., remained nonplussed, and by senior year Cedric's days were returning to their pedestrian collegiate rhythm.†   (source)
  • In the place of honor hung a picture showing, side by side with his own face, the smiling face of John F. Kennedy.†   (source)
  • We'd never been to Dallas before, and the next day, we decided to visit the John F. Kennedy memorial, as part of our "Highlights of Texas" tour.†   (source)
  • I was as sure of Them as I was of other people I had never met but had heard of, like my grandfather Charlie Bundrum, or John Kennedy, or Alan Ladd.†   (source)
  • Outside of scores of confirmed hits, many think he was the puff of smoke on the grassy knoll in Dallas, the true killer of John Kennedy.†   (source)
  • With Alice beside me, I slowly cruised through Golden Gate Park on John F. Kennedy Drive.†   (source)
  • Out of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, Flight 353, bound for Los Angeles, ordinarily would have followed a more southerly corridor than the one it traveled that August evening.†   (source)
  • , who had been a childhood sweetheart of John F. Kennedy in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • Do you, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear ….†   (source)
  • It avoids what linguists call the intrusive "r," pronouncing saw as sawr or, as John Kennedy did, Cuba as Cuber.†   (source)
  • He loved the freedom to follow his passions: for John F. Kennedy, for Fred Astaire, for Ted Williams.†   (source)
  • By the time the bomb exploded, the Honda Pilot was braking to a stop outside the main entrance of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.†   (source)
  • She was lighting the pilot light in the oven when they announced John F. Kennedy was dead, and she sat right down on the kitchen floor and cried.†   (source)
  • Chancellor Kohl, Governing Mayor Diepgen, ladies and gentlemen: Twenty-four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, speaking to the people of this city and the world at the City Hall.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy was a so-and-so—†   (source)
  • "John F. Kennedy," he said.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy's genius, he'd read somewhere, was that he worked out one problem at a time.†   (source)
  • We were sure that ours was a nation of the ballot, not the bullet, until the murders of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. We were taught that our armies were always invincible and our causes were always just, only to suffer the agony of Vietnam.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy began his public service career as a PT-boat commander in the South Pacific in World War II.†   (source)
  • Maybe they'll get a glimpse of John F. Kennedy and Jackie after all.†   (source)
  • We were assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67).†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy, a son of Ireland, is now the most powerful man in the world.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy well understands that the public adores Jackie.†   (source)
  • And again, John F. Kennedy will read his morning papers horrified by the photograph.†   (source)
  • Several feet behind them, in the rear of the plane, lies the body of John F. Kennedy.†   (source)
  • To put it another way: Many people would like to see John F. Kennedy dead.†   (source)
  • This copper-jacketed missile effectively ends John F. Kennedy's life in an instant.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy Jr. became a symbol for the tragic history of the Kennedy family.†   (source)
  • We began this book associating John F. Kennedy with Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • If John F. Kennedy had been knocked forward, he might have lived a long life.†   (source)
  • None of these shenanigans would normally matter to John F. Kennedy.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy's European presence even affects the arrogant French president, Charles de Gaulle.†   (source)
  • In fact, John F. Kennedy is traveling through the ideal kill zone.†   (source)
  • President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas, and taken to the hospital.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy absentmindedly buttons his suit coat.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy is enchanted by Garbo, as she is by him.†   (source)
  • For the first time in more than a week, John F. Kennedy feels hopeful.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, in the White House, John Kennedy watches King's speech on television.†   (source)
  • But John Kennedy knows the power of good political timing, and the trip has been a smashing success.†   (source)
  • Despite the triumph, Martin Luther King Jr. and John Fitzgerald Kennedy are not on the same page.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy will never know it happened.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy's finally standing up for the black man is a victory for Bobby as well.†   (source)
  • The accident killed John Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren.†   (source)
  • But now, in a moment of great insecurity, John Kennedy understands his father's wisdom.†   (source)
  • To this day, no place in Arlington is more popular than the grave of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy does not like Adlai Stevenson.†   (source)
  • But John Kennedy has seen Nikita Khrushchev blink before.†   (source)
  • In Washington, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy confronts a different kind of problem.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy begins the slow trek to the intensive care unit to gaze upon his dying son.†   (source)
  • But it is not vanity that drives John Kennedy's obsession with clothing.†   (source)
  • Walter Cronkite and John Kennedy say good-bye.†   (source)
  • In John Kennedy's world, blacks are primarily valets, cooks, waiters, and maids.†   (source)
  • The question facing John Kennedy, his fellow Catholic, is how?†   (source)
  • But as she can plainly see, morning with the kids is when John Kennedy is at his most relaxed.†   (source)
  • "It's raining," says George Thomas, stepping inside John Kennedy's Fort Worth hotel suite.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy Jr. watched the great jet rise into the sky and disappear into the distance.†   (source)
  • Lee Harvey Oswald has nothing against John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†   (source)
  • But John Kennedy is the president of the United States of America—all of them.†   (source)
  • Far worse, the world will think that John Kennedy is more powerful than Nikita Khrushchev.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy has the adulation of the crowds all to himself.†   (source)
  • As all this was taking place, John Kennedy hid in the country.†   (source)
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy has precisely five months.†   (source)
  • Now, with the crisis successfully defused, John Fitzgerald Kennedy is elated.†   (source)
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy must make the most powerful speech of his life.†   (source)
  • There is another incident that influences John Kennedy's journey to the Oval Office.†   (source)
  • Nellie Connally lies atop her husband, even as a moaning Jackie Kennedy holds John Kennedy's head.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy smiles and points up to her hotel room.†   (source)
  • For John Fitzgerald Kennedy is on a collision course with evil.†   (source)
  • But 1964 might not be a year of victory, and John Kennedy knows that.†   (source)
  • But the craft possessing tail number 26000, in which John Kennedy now flies, is a distinct upgrade.†   (source)
  • Jackie's whole life was John Kennedy, and even now she sometimes forgets that he's dead.†   (source)
  • Throughout his presidency, John Kennedy often referenced Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy's bodyguards sport the telltale bulge of .†   (source)
  • But John Kennedy needs Texas and its money.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy will one day liken the relationship to that of puppets and their puppet master.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy, in the words of one agent, was a "sitting duck."†   (source)
  • Behind John Kennedy's vehicle is a follow-up convertible code-named Halfback.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy was ignorant of that adage eighteen months ago, during the Bay of Pigs invasion.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy steers a golf cart to Camp David's military mess hall for Sunday Mass.†   (source)
  • The Bay of Pigs, in its own mismanaged way, has shaped John Kennedy's presidency.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy does not know everything that did, or did not, happen on board the Christina.†   (source)
  • Once again, John Kennedy was administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • But right now none of that matters to John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†   (source)
  • One hour later, an exultant Martin Luther King Jr. meets with John Kennedy in the Oval Office.†   (source)
  • After chronicling the last days of Abraham Lincoln, the progression to John Kennedy was a natural.†   (source)
  • In less than 1,400 words, John Fitzgerald Kennedy defines his vision for the nation.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy stands in the Oval Office, helpless to stop what he has started.†   (source)
  • Dave Powers is willing to do anything for John Kennedy.†   (source)
  • But it was not the CIA or the Joint Chiefs who ordered the invasion; it was John Kennedy.†   (source)
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy stands in the White House Rose Garden before a large, warmhearted crowd.†   (source)
  • Two steps behind, and seen in person for the first time by the people of Dallas, comes John Kennedy.†   (source)
  • He is, however, bitter that a man such as John Kennedy has so many advantages in life.†   (source)
  • No, the plan is to kill John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†   (source)
  • But there is another reason the brothers are praying, and John Kennedy should know why.†   (source)
  • One child was positive that John Kennedy was the first President of the United States.†   (source)
  • Paralleling my mom's insistence that I attend Riverdale because John F. Kennedy had once gone to school there, she was won over to Valley Forge when she heard that General Norman Schwarzkopf was a graduate.†   (source)
  • "Well, Owen," Mr. Merrill said cautiously, "I'm sure Isaiah would have liked John Kennedy; I don't know, however, if Kennedy was 'the very thing Isaiah had in mind,' as you say."†   (source)
  • I thought of the people I'd read about—John F. Kennedy, James Joyce, Humphrey Bogart—who went to boarding school, and their adventures—Kennedy, for example, loved pranks.†   (source)
  • "If he's rich, maybe he'll bring some money into the state," I offered, speaking of old Joe or John F. Kennedy, take your pick.†   (source)
  • "So that you don't think that The Grave represents Republicans with even marginal objectivity, allow me to take a minute of your time—while, perhaps, the euphoria of John Kennedy's landslide election here is still high but (I hope) subsiding.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy had two great visions in his presidency: one to go to the moon, the other to fight for freedom across the world.†   (source)
  • No matter how many times the murder of John F. Kennedy is debated, no one has ever satisfactorily explained a burst of smoke from a grassy knoll three hundred yards away from the motorcade.†   (source)
  • In the meantime—at the National Counterterrorism Center, the Lincoln Memorial, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Harbor Place, a string of restaurants along M Street, and at Cafe Milano—they counted the dead.†   (source)
  • When her family sat down to watch the televised debate, "I could not believe that this man John Kennedy was not a comedian.†   (source)
  • After prepping our gear, we took a late-afternoon flight on a Sea King from the John F. Kennedy's flight deck.†   (source)
  • The SEALs on the John F. Kennedy probably got tired of me, but they shared some of the horror stories of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Training.†   (source)
  • Years later, after observing Communist insurgency in Southeast Asia, President John F. Kennedy—who had served in the navy during World War II—and others in the military understood the need for unconventional warriors.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy is tired but alert.†   (source)
  • The nation is devastated by the assassination of John F. Kennedy and is riveted to the television with depressed fascination as events unfold.†   (source)
  • She speaks of building a John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, so that people from around the world will know of her husband's legacy.†   (source)
  • Then, as summer 1963 concludes its first weeks, Oswald chooses to read about subject matter he's never before explored: John F. Kennedy.†   (source)
  • From high above, in his sixth-floor sniper's lair, Lee Harvey Oswald sees John F. Kennedy in person for the first time.†   (source)
  • But the sinking of PT-109 will be the making of John F. Kennedy—not because of what just happened, but because of what is about to happen next.†   (source)
  • There is no question that John F. Kennedy's visit to the "Southwest hate capital of Dixie," as Dallas has been called, is fraught with complications.†   (source)
  • A gold plaque has been hung in the bedroom the president will use, forever commemorating the night when "John F. Kennedy Slept Here."†   (source)
  • Thanks to Dave Powers's insistence on making the most of PT-109, John F. Kennedy is elected to Congress.†   (source)
  • But that explosion marked the moment when John F. Kennedy became a politician and began the journey into the powerful office in which he now sits.†   (source)
  • Approximately 4,500 miles away, in the Soviet city of Minsk, an American who did not vote for John F. Kennedy is fed up.†   (source)
  • There are still Americans who believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in killing John F. Kennedy.†   (source)
  • Finally, John F. Kennedy takes charge.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy steps through the Rose Garden entrance into the Oval Office, with its gray carpet and off-white walls.†   (source)
  • The destruction of Camelot might have begun with the Bay of Pigs, when John F. Kennedy made a permanent enemy of Fidel Castro and infuriated his own Central Intelligence Agency.†   (source)
  • Shortly after 1:00 P.M., John F. Kennedy's appointments secretary marches into the small white cubicle in the Minor Medicine section of the hospital and stands before Lyndon Johnson.†   (source)
  • It was no longer about the United States versus Cuba, but about John F. Kennedy versus Fidel Castro, two extremely competitive men battling for ideological control over the Western Hemisphere.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy February 10, 1962†   (source)
  • So it is that John F. Kennedy is placed in the bottom of a canoe, covered in palm fronds to hide him from Japanese aircraft, and paddled to a hidden location on New Georgia Island.†   (source)
  • Those dates reside in the back of John F. Kennedy's mind as he stands in the rodeo ring at the Yellowstone County Fairgrounds, addressing an overflow crowd.†   (source)
  • Lee Harvey Oswald was buried in Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 25, 1963, the same day that John F. Kennedy was interred at Arlington.†   (source)
  • But he does favor her with a lupine gaze that one journalist will later remember as "quite a sight to behold, and if I ever saw an appreciation of feminine beauty in the eyes of a man, it was in John F. Kennedy's at that moment."†   (source)
  • Lawson then travels to Texas from Washington and interviews local law enforcement and other federal agencies, continuing his search for individuals who might be a threat to the life of John F. Kennedy.†   (source)
  • John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator still months away from beginning his campaign for the presidency, knew that Batista was a ruthless despot who had murdered more than twenty thousand of his own people.†   (source)
  • A variety of people will become self-described experts on grainy home videos of the assassination, grassy knolls, and the many evildoers who longed to see John F. Kennedy physically removed from power.†   (source)
  • So it is that the Kennedy staff and the Johnson staff stand uncomfortably next to one another as federal judge Sarah Hughes, who was personally appointed to the bench by LBJ and now has been hastily summoned to the presidential jet of which John F. Kennedy was so fond, administers the oath.†   (source)
  • As John Kennedy prepared to take office, roughly one in every nineteen Cubans was a political prisoner.†   (source)
  • After arriving, he is placed in Trauma Room Two, right across the hall from the emergency room where John Kennedy spent the final minutes of his life.†   (source)
  • Five days after John Kennedy's Rose Garden speech, the president and First Lady formally announce that she is pregnant.†   (source)
  • Lee Harvey Oswald peers into his four-power telescopic sight, the one that makes John Kennedy's head look as if it is two feet away.†   (source)
  • He picks up John Kennedy's personal presidential telephone next to the bed and places a call to a man he loathes.†   (source)
  • Bobby would do anything for his country, and so would I. I will never embarrass him as long as I have memory, I have John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy has thrown the power of his office behind the civil rights movement, but he has done so reluctantly.†   (source)
  • But after the nail-biting tension of the recent crisis, John Kennedy feels he is allowed a touch of black humor.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy is considered a great orator for his speeches' carefully chosen words and phrasing, as is Dr. King.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy is riveted by the scandal.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy's burial site at Arlington is lit by an eternal flame, at the suggestion of Jackie Kennedy.†   (source)
  • Oswald is an avid newspaper reader and has known for quite some time that John Kennedy is coming to Dallas.†   (source)
  • Surely John Kennedy can be allowed the minor indiscretion of appreciating this lovely twentysomething.†   (source)
  • And so it is that John Kennedy, starting his morning as he always does by reading the papers, sees this image from Birmingham.†   (source)
  • Television coverage of John Kennedy's funeral transformed Arlington from the burial place of soldiers and sailors into a popular tourist destination.†   (source)
  • The irony is that Jackie's pregnancy has made John Kennedy more devoted to his wife and family than ever before.†   (source)
  • Sex is John Kennedy's Achilles' heel.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy has purposely focused his brother on domestic policy issues, preferring to let others advise him on international matters.†   (source)
  • "Good evening, my fellow citizens," John Fitzgerald Kennedy greets the nation from his study at the White House.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy has been extremely fortunate so far that no women have stepped forward to boast about bedding the president.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy believes that America needs to end the Vietnam conflict—though he is not quite ready to go public with this.†   (source)
  • The collection of essays, which won John Kennedy the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, is about the lives and actions of eight great men.†   (source)
  • Other times, he'll take a seat outside the door to the Oval Office, hoping to catch John Kennedy's eye and be invited inside.†   (source)
  • A tube is inserted into John Kennedy's throat to open his airway, and saline solution is pumped into his body through his right femoral vein.†   (source)
  • As is so often his habit when something messes up his hair, John Kennedy's hand reflexively tries to pat the top of his head.†   (source)
  • Thus Dallas officials won't let John Kennedy's body leave the state of Texas until an official autopsy has been performed.†   (source)
  • They load the body onto Air Force One through the same rear door John Kennedy stepped out of three hours earlier.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy is hardly a violent man.†   (source)
  • The following letter is the best evidence that John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln were indeed kindred spirits.†   (source)
  • He then carefully swaddles the body of John Kennedy in seven layers of rubber bags and one more of plastic.†   (source)
  • But there's a problem: Khrushchev is surprised to learn that his adversary, John Kennedy, is deadly serious about defending his country at all costs.†   (source)
  • The distance between her beautiful, unlined face and that of the tanned and very stunned John Kennedy is approximately six inches.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy's appearance may be robust, but he suffers from a nervous stomach, back pain, and Addison's disease.†   (source)
  • Almost an hour after being declared dead, John Kennedy is now ready to leave Parkland Hospital and fly back to Washington.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy does this to soothe his aching back, a problem for him ever since he was a student at Harvard.†   (source)
  • Inside the presidential limousine, Nellie Connally stops waving long enough to look over her right shoulder and smile at John Kennedy.†   (source)
  • Today's journey began at 9:15 A.M., when John Kennedy said goodbye to Caroline as she set off to the third floor of the White House for school.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy will soon be forced to use every bit of these hard-won presidential skills to manage turbulent times.†   (source)
  • As with the death of John Kennedy, it was Walter Cronkite who broke the news of LBJ's death to the nation.†   (source)
  • One statistic about the Texas trip is most glaring of all: more than 62 percent of Dallas voters rejected John Kennedy in 1960.†   (source)
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy is spending the weekend in downtown Chicago, rallying the Democratic Party faithful at a fund-raiser.†   (source)
  • On day seven of his trip to Europe, John Kennedy rides in an open-air convertible through the narrow, twisting streets of Galway, Ireland.†   (source)
  • Frank Sinatra and John Kennedy have shared many laughs, many drinks, and, as the FBI suggests, a woman or two.†   (source)
  • Frank Sinatra became a Republican in the years after John Kennedy's Palm Springs snub and was a well-known supporter of President Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy likes to appear vigorous in public and often risks his life by wading deep into crowds to shake hands.†   (source)
  • But even now, with Bobby at his side, John Kennedy feels the crushing loneliness of being the president of the United States.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy stands just outside a back door watching the crowd drifting in and out of Bing Crosby's home.†   (source)
  • It is 5:45 P.M. on May 29 in Washington, D.C. President John Kennedy has had a busy day of back-to-back meetings in the Oval Office.†   (source)
  • Lee Harvey Oswald's public statement that he is a patsy fuels the flames that John Kennedy's death is part of a greater conspiracy.†   (source)
  • The skipper, and the man responsible for allowing such an enormous vessel to sneak up on his boat, is Lieutenant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy pries off his heavy shoes and lets them fall to the sea bottom, thinking that the reduced drag will allow him to swim more easily.†   (source)
  • "I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear," the new president repeats in a clipped Boston accent.†   (source)
  • Despite this familiarity, the men of the Secret Service never forget that John Kennedy is the president of the United States.†   (source)
  • The casket Oneal quickly selects for John Kennedy is the "Britannia" model from the Elgin Casket Company.†   (source)
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