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News Articles: John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy is seen riding in his motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

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Last of the classified JFK assassination files to be released Tuesday

About 80,000 documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy are expected to be released, but presidential historians don't expect any bombshell revelations.

March 18, 2025
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  • Scott Neuman
President John F. Kennedy slumps down in the back seat of the presidential limousine as it speeds along Elm Street toward the Stemmons Freeway overpass in Dallas, Texas, after being fatally shot, Nov. 22, 1963. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president as Secret Service Agent Clint Hill pushes her back to her seat.

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  • Obituaries

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who tried to shield the Kennedys, dies at 93

Hill received Secret Service awards and was promoted for his actions that day, but for decades blamed himself for Kennedy's death, saying he would gladly have given his life to save the president.

February 25, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
In this Dec. 17, 1962, photo, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. delegate to the United Nations, shakes hands with Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at the White House with President John F. Kennedy at right. The meeting occurred as Kennedy met with members of the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa.

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  • Politics

Trump mandates assassination records be released for the Kennedy brothers and MLK Jr.

Congress passed a law in 1992 requiring the documents surrounding President Kennedy's assassination to be released by 2017, but the release has been held up by national security concerns.

January 24, 2025
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  • Ayana Archie
Kamala Harris accepts her nomination on the final night of the DNC.

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  • Politics

Debates have proved a tough test for vice presidents running for president

A look back at other sitting vice presidents who were running for the top job and debating on TV against the nominee of the opposition party: Gore in 2000, George H.W. Bush in 1988 and Nixon in 1960.

September 07, 2024
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  • Ron Elving
View, in 2014, of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumptive assassin of President John F. Kennedy, found a perch above the plaza on Nov. 22, 1963

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Filmmaker examines the roots of mistrust of government with 'Inside the Warren Commission'

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A new documentary breaks down the legacy of the Warren Commission, which was set up to examine the circumstances of the killing of a president.

November 20, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
A U-2 spy photo shows a medium-range ballistic missile base in San Cristobal, Cuba, with labels detailing various parts of the base in October 1962.

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  • National Security

60 years after the Cuban missile crisis, Russia's threats reignite Cold War fears

Over 13 days beginning on Oct. 16, 1962, the U.S. and Soviet Union were at the brink of a nuclear conflict. But since the Cold War ended, some historical assumptions about the crisis have changed.

October 16, 2022
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  • Scott Neuman
Sculptor Ed Dwight works on the third panel of a twelve panel piece in his studio in Denver, Colo., on Aug. 5, 1999.

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  • News

Ed Dwight Was The First Black Astronaut Candidate For NASA. Here's Why He Never Flew.

All week, On Second Thought has shared stories about people whose unsung contributions to the Apollo 11 mission 50 years ago. One of those pioneers is...

July 19, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • La'Raven Taylor

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