Word: jfk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arlington National Cemetery, outside the nation's capital, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), visited JFK's grave with several other family members, including Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy '48, a spokesman said...
...went to my high school class and said to my classmates that Tom Vallely would be at the JFK School, they would probably laugh," he says. "But Vietnam had a very profound effect...
...understand and capture the conflicting passions of the decade, cast members spent hours sitting in a dark room listening to an album of major radio news broadcasts of the 1960s. One actor recalled listening first to "the hope of JFK's election, all the way through to the shattering blows of Martin Luther King's and Bobby Kennedy's assassinations. The '60s was a time of frustration and disillusionment...
...there wasn't warfare." By election day, missiles and surgical air strikes were all but forgotten. "Cliffies Endorse Teddy Kennedy As Sexiest Candidate for Senator," proclaimed a page-one headline. Stuart Hughes received a grand total of 50,000 votes for his anti-war campaign, and three days after JFK had removed the last blockade ships, Harvard beat Yale, 14-6, at Soldiers' Field.Photo Courtesy of the John F. Kennedy LibraryIntelligence officials showed President Kennedy this U-2 photograph of the Soviet ship Poltava...
...advice of his brother Robert, the Attorney General, JFK decided late Saturday night to ignore Khruschev's more belligerent letter but warned that if the missiles were not withdrawn by Sunday, invasions or air strikes would follow. The next day, Khruschev announced the withdrawal of the Soviet missiles, saying, "We are confident that reason will triumph, that war will not be unleashed, and peace and security of the peoples will be insured...