Edward R. Murrow
Famed journalist Edward R. Murrow finished his illustrious career in the Kennedy administration of the Director of the United States Information Agency. Murrow, who changed…
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Chester Hanford
A. Chester Hanford was Dean of Harvard College from 1927-1947. He approved Jack’s request to spend the second half of his junior year on leave…
Clipper
Clipper was a pure bred German shepherd who was part of the Kennedy family menagerie during the White House years. He traveled with the family…
November 5, 1952
JFK had spent the day before voting for himself in his Massachusetts senate race against Henry Cabot Lodge. Election night came and went with the…
April 5, 1960
JFK narrowly wins the Wisconsin primary Hubert Humphrey. Kennedy was out of the state when the polling began but flew in aboard his plane the…
January 23, 1953
JFK is in the Capitol and is sworn in as Massachusetts’ new senator by Vice-President Alvin Barkley. Kennedy is with several other new senators and…
November 4, 1952 (Tuesday)
November 4, 1952 was election day. Most of the nation’s attention was on the race between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson. But in Joe Kennedy’s…
Eve
Jack spent Christmas Eve with his family and Red Fay putting up and decorating the Christmas tree. [Blair, p. ???]
Brothers
Jack and Joe, Jr. where photographed in their naval uniforms in Palm Beach, Florida. [45, p. 58-9]
August 5, 1941
JFK received a physical examination by a Navy Medical Board in Boston, who was under pressure from the director of Naval Intelligence Captain Alan Kirk…
Weekend
Jack was in Charlotte, North Carolina visiting Frances Ann Cannon for the weekend. He spent some of the visit discussing his book Why England Slept…
Flame
JFK attended the wedding of old flame Frances Ann Cannon to John Hersey. The ceremony was held at White Oaks, the James B. Duke mansion…
Stock
Jack contacted his pal Lem Billings, requesting that Lem sell the stock he had recently purchases so he could lend Jack some money. Jack had…
Glasgow
Jack left London in the evening for Glasgow at the request of his father to address the survivors of the Athenia, a passenger transport that…
December 27, 1923
Jack Kennedy and his brother Joe accompanied their mother Rose and family friend Mary Moore to the Poland Springs resort in Maine. [30, RKP, box…
January 17, 1923
JFK is left home with only the servants to look after him as his mother and sisters Rosemary and Kathleen along with family friend Mary…
Rose Elizabeth
JFK’s first boat was the sailboat that he co-owned with his older brother Joe, Jr. after it was given to them by their parents in…