john f kennedy

Fifty years ago today our world stopped spinning, if only for a heartbeat. The news of President Kennedy's death swept across our pre-CNN nation like a lightening bolt.  A slow lighting bolt to be sure, but it was an unforgettable shock wave...

It is Thanksgiving Day.  But it is also November 22.  It is hard to see that date and not remember the year 1963 and remember what happened in Dallas, Texas shortly after 12:noon. Everybody remembers where they were when the news of the assassination of President John F...

She was plain, some would call her frumpy.  She was tall for her age and felt awkward in public.  She referred to herself as "an ugly duckling."  She married a distant cousin. She was 20, he was 25 when they got married on St. Patrick's Day, 1905...