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University of Virginia presidential recordings expert Ken Hughes talked about President Kennedy’s mystique and his White House tapes with Martin Di Caro, host of the Washington Times' “History As It…

Fort Worth’s General Worth Square is the place where President John F. Kennedy gave an impromptu speech to thousands of spectators the morning he was assassinated. Andy Taft, president of Downtown Fort…

This U.S. Information Service film documents President Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s tour of Venezuela and visit with Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt. President Kennedy…

Green Berets held a commemorative wreath-laying ceremony at President John F. Kennedy’s grave site at Arlington National Cemetery. The annual ceremony commemorates the former president’s…

Archival footage of President John F. Kennedy’s Oval Office Address during the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 22, 1962 President Kennedy addressed the nation on the build-up of Soviet nuclear…

Irwin Gellman re-examined the 1960 presidential campaign, candidates Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, and the close outcome of the election. The Richard Nixon Foundation hosted this event at…

Future of Freedom Foundation founder and president Jacob Hornberger discussed his book about Abraham Zapruder, the man who filmed the Kennedy assassination. This interview was conducted at…

The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., hosted a forum looking back six decades at the August 28, 1963, March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech. Former…

Marc Selverstone talked about his research into President Kennedy’s Vietnam War policies, which is partly based on previously secret White House recordings, and his conclusion that JFK was…

John Kennedy was in the White House for just over 1,000 days, from his 1961 inauguration to his 1963 assassination on the streets of Dallas. This selection of speeches included his 1961 inaugural address, 1962…

Jefferson Morley, a veteran journalist, author, and John F. Kennedy assassination researcher, talked about the recent release of documents related to the former president’s murder.

Journalist and author Clay Risen discussed President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 civil rights address and passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Author Jeff Shesol talked about why President Kennedy placed his Cold War hopes, at the height of Soviet tensions, in astronaut John Glenn’s February 20, 1962, orbit of Earth aboard…

Larry Schweikart, professor of history at the University of Dayton, talked about six presidents - Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, JFK, Reagan, and Trump - who he says took on the…

LBJ Foundation president and CEO Mark Updegrove offered a reassessment of John Kennedy’s presidency - with a focus on how JFK grew in office as he confronted domestic and foreign…

Back in the period between June to November of 1962, Paul Gregory reportedly knew Lee and Marina Oswald better than anyone else. Two hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, Mr. Gregory, then a student…

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum convened political and intelligence experts to revisit the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis on the 60th anniversary of the confrontation…

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum convened political and intelligence experts to revisit the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis on the 60th anniversary of the confrontation…

Former Boston Globe reporter and biographer John Farrell talked about his book, Ted Kennedy: A Life, on the life and political career of the late Democratic senator from Massachusetts. He talked…

Catholic University professor and former CIA historian Nicholas Dujmovic teaches a class about national intelligence during President Kennedy’s administration. He talks about the Bay of…