Midwest Swing
JFK devoted significant time in 1958 on his unofficial campaign for the Presidency and was in Madison, Wisconsin visiting the University of Wisconsin. [56]
The Life of John F. Kennedy
JFK devoted significant time in 1958 on his unofficial campaign for the Presidency and was in Madison, Wisconsin visiting the University of Wisconsin. [56]
News of Jackie’s pregnancy with Caroline is broken by David Barnett who was head of the Washington bureau of the North American Newspaper Alliance. He…
JFK was in Boston where he addressed the 6th Annual Convention of the United Cerebral Palsy. Himself a sufferer of a chronic and debilitating illness,…
JFK sits for photographs taken by Verner Reed of Life Magazine.
JFK is admitted to the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. The hospital located on East Forty-Second Street was and still is one…
JFK gives a speech in the United States Senate highlighting what he feels is a shortsighted diplomatic campaign of the US to side with European…
JFK is awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from Tufts University. The afternoon graduation began at 3 PM and was quite lenghty. Kennedy was…
JFK gave a speech to the American Legion discussing foreign affairs and the growing military threat of the Soviet Union
JK debated incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. in his race for the United States Senate. [JFKlibrary]
JFK testified before the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committee. His analysis and comment was requested on the subject of how best to arm…
JFK attends the wedding of Bobby Kennedy to Ethel Skakel at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenwich, Connecticut. Ethel was the roommate of sister Jean…
JFK spoke at a sports banquet held at Boston College. His speech was somewhat rambling and he reminisced about his experience
JFK delivered the Commencement Address at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. In this speech Kennedy showed a surprisingly conservative side for…
The Associated Press published an article about JFK supposedly practicing in full uniform and pads with a high school football team. In the piece, Kennedy…
JFK was profiled in an article by Paul Murphy published in the American Weekly titled Unmarried Millionaire: Jack Kennedy [51]
JFK’s beloved and favorite sister Kathleen (Kick) Kennedy Cavendish dies in a plane crash when her flight from the French Riviera back to Paris flies…
JFK made a speech in Congress supporting a $227 million dollar aid package to Italy. He maintained that Italy was in danger from an “onslaught…
JFK was the subject of a gossip column in the New York World-Telegram. “Palm Beach’s cottage colony wants to give the son of Joseph P….
JFK attends a meeting of Gold Star mothers at the American Legion Hall in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Dave Powers meets him at the Bellevue where Jack…
JFK meets Dave Powers for the first time. Powers at the time was living with his widowed sister and eight nieces and nephews in a…