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TAM: Jet forced to return to JFK

TAM Airlines says one of its jets took off from New York's JFK airport but was forced to return 20 minutes into the flight because of a mechanical problem.

Dallas suburb buying house where Oswald kept rifle

A Dallas suburb has agreed to pay $175,000 for the house where Lee Harvey Oswald stored the rifle used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.

Ex-airline worker sentenced in JFK drug smuggling

A former Delta Air Lines baggage worker has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a smuggling ring that shepherded cocaine and heroin through New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

JFK anniversary marked at Dallas shooting site

About 500 people crowded Saturday into the plaza where John F. Kennedy was shot 45 years ago, all agreeing it was right to remember a pivotal moment in American history, even if they didn't all believe the official line.

Grassy knoll couple recall Kennedy assassination

It seems as if the gracious couple has told the story a thousand times — how the crack of an assassin's bullet struck the president just a few feet from where they stood.

2nd near collision occurs at JFK airport in week

Two airborne planes — one landing and the other taking off — came within a half-mile of colliding at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday in the second such incident at the airport in a week, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Irish leader gives $2 million to JFK Library in Boston

Ireland is donating $2 million to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

JFK Plot Suspect Committed in Trinidad

A Muslim cleric suspected in an alleged plot to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy Airport has been hospitalized in Trinidad after suffering a mental breakdown, his lawyer said Monday.

JFK Assassination Documents Revealed

Long-hidden items and documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were revealed for the first time Monday, after spending nearly two decades locked inside a courthouse safe.

JFK Assassination Documents Revealed

Long-hidden items and documents relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy are being revealed for the first time in decades.

JFK Speech on Religion

Sen. John F. Kennedy confronted concerns about his religion head-on in the 1960 campaign that made him the first Roman Catholic to be U.S. president.

Exhibit Highlights JFK's Fitness Push

When it came to encouraging fitness, few did more to get Americans off the couch than John F. Kennedy.

Man Who Caused JFK Scare Went to Smoke

A passenger who caused an evacuation at John F. Kennedy International Airport has told law enforcers that he breached security after going outside to smoke and then misplacing his boarding pass.

JFK Workers Charged With Drug Smuggling

A ring of airline employees exploited weaknesses in security procedures to help a New York drug ring smuggle heroin and cocaine through John F. Kennedy Airport, federal authorities charged Tuesday.

Study: Was Oswald the Lone JFK Gunman?

New testing on the type of ammunition used in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy raises questions about whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, according to a study by researchers at Texas A&M University.

Footage of JFK Motorcade Is Discovered

A recently discovered home movie showing President John F. Kennedy's motorcade shortly before his assassination was unveiled Monday on the Web site of a Dallas museum.

Kennedy Targeted on 1963 Ireland Trip

President John F. Kennedy was the subject of three separate death threats during his visit to Ireland in 1963, according to newly declassified police documents released Friday.

Crowd Remembers JFK Assassination

About 300 people, including history buffs, conspiracy theorists and even two Elvis impersonators, gathered in Dealey Plaza on Wednesday to mark the 43rd anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination in a loosely organized ceremony that was part memorial and part circus.

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At Opednews: The Dartmouth Jfk-photo Fiasco
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

A Dartmouth computer scientist blew it badly by claiming to have shown the Oswald "backyard photographs" are genuine. Multiple lines of proof contradict him.

"Fake" Oswald photo appears real
Source: New Hampshire Union Leader

HANOVER – Kennedy conspiracy theorists appear to have one less bullet in their arsenal. Hany Farid, a computer science professor and expert in digital forensics at Dartmouth College, spent two months evaluating a photograph of John F. Kennedy shooter Lee Harvey Oswald.

Why is the CIA still sitting on Kennedy assassination records?
Source: prairieweather.typepad.com

The CIA continues to sit on some materials about Lee Harvey Oswald's connection with Cuba raising suspicions -- maybe unwarranted -- that there's more to the Kennedy assassination than we've ever been told.  The New York Times reports that even non-conspiracy researchers  …

When sceptics fight back - What --No grassy knoll gunman????
Source: BBC News

Pretty good article which shows a way the internet is used both for good and bad (depending on who you believe).

CBS Poll: JFK Conspiracy Lives 74 Percent Say There Was A Government Cover-Up
Source: CBS News

Thirty-five years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, conspiracy theories and charges of an official government cover-up resonate with the American public, according to a new CBS News poll.

Tillawi: Israel killed JFK and RFK over Zionist registration as agent of a foreign country
Source: YouTube

US broadcaster Dr Hesham Tillawi: "No doubt in my mind that JFK, RFK efforts to force the American Zionist Council to register as an agent of a foreign country was the reason for the killing of both JFK and RFK."

Would JFK Be a Democrat Today?

I've always considered myself a Democrat in terms of party preference. I came to that position in the context of the ideas and policies of people like John F. Kennedy and other liberals and Democrats of that era (such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan).

Right vs Left - The Contest Between Hope and Fear
Source: The Nation

The rabid protesters opposing Obama are representatives of a long national tradition based in an irrational fear of a strong central government and buttressed by the insurance, hospital and pharmaceutical lobbies.

Obama's Summer of Discontent By FOUAD AJAMI
Source: Wall Street Journal

Mr. Ajami commented, "Those protesters in those town-hall meetings have served notice that Mr. Obama's charismatic moment has passed. Once again, the belief in that American exception that set this nation apart from other lands is re-emerging.

"Rare Video" JFK 1960 Speech at the Houston Ministers
Source: YouTube

At the time, many wondered if we could elect a Catholic as president. JFK decided not to avoid the issue-- and confronted it head on, by making a speech in the heart of "enemy territory".

Will America Ever Be Cool Again?

The Daily Event is proud to have Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor-in chief of paranoiaisfact.com, to answers readers' questions. Dear Igor,

Commentary: Kennedy opened door for Obama - CNN.com
Source: CNN

With a sign from Dunganstown, Ireland, hanging in his U.S. Capitol office, a reminder of the famine-ravished farm where his ancestors began, Sen.

An American Dynasty
Source: msnbc.com

From first Irish-Catholic president to one of the nation's longest - serving senators to

Kennedy's Fight Goes On.

And now he leaves us. The last leaf on the tree, holding on throughout so many winters, determined to remain and give this tree life, and the vibrancy of color.

The Real Ted Kennedy - An in-depth look at the life, politics, and legacy of the late Senator.
Source: discoverthenetworks.org

A look (from every perspective) at the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts: from his time as a "legacy" student at Harvard University (expelled) to the passage of the Immigration Reform Act of 1965; from Chappaquiddick to his passion to stop the first ocean-based renewable en …

The dream shall never die - Ted Kennedy

What an eventful morning already.....and it is just 5:22 AM as I start to type this. With Ramadan going on right now us Muslims wake up long before sunrise (the time for this morning was around 4:50 AM) and eat in the morning before fasting until sunset.

Kennedy's Misguided Last Hurrah

Through tragedy and triumph they have weathered, stood true. Like or dislike, every American has been a student and benefactor of the Kennedy clan's accomplishments and contributions throughout nearly the last three quarters of a century.

What if -- Obama logic applied to presidencies past
Source: jazz-from-hell.blogspot.com

"McKinley encourages gun presence at town hall meets," "HOOVER FILLS TREASURY WITH J.P. MORGAN EXECUTIVES," "LBJ: 'War on Poverty' too costly" and other mightabeen headlines...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder of Special Olympics, Dies at 88 - washingtonpost.com
Source: The Washington Post

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, a member of a political dynasty who devoted her life to improving the welfare of the mentally disabled by founding the Special Olympics, died Tuesday morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., after a series of strokes.

Poll. Teddy Kennedy is dying. So?

By all accounts Senator Edward R. Kennedy's health is getting worse by the day. It won't be long until, like with Walter Cronkite, the major networks will break in with breaking news and announce that Ted Kennedy has died.

"One Giant Leap to Nowhere," by Tom Wolfe
Source: The New York Times

An amazing opinion piece about the Space Program, by Tom Wolfe, author of "The Right Stuff," an account of the Mercury Seven astronauts.

A Powerful Call to the Media, by a Voice from the Past

" The very word secrecy is repugnant, in a free & open society, & we are as a people inherently & historically, opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths & to secret proceedings.

Relive Apollo 11 in Real Time on the Web
Source: Gizmodo

There are very few political speeches that touch me in the way that JFK's We choose to go to the moon does. Seven years later, Humanity's biggest daydream became a reality. Today you can follow the adventure in real time.

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