HNN Hot Topics: John F. Kennedy
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Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union [INTERVIEW] Journalist Peter Savodnik discusses his new book, The Interloper. NOVEMBER 22, 2013 |
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Is There More to the JFK Assassination? Just consider a few of the commission's flaws. NOVEMBER 22, 2013 |
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Kennedy's Legacy of Inspiration Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, he remains an object of almost universal admiration. NOVEMBER 22, 2013 |
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Still Blaming Conservatives for Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marxist, so why does Dallas's conservative culture still get blamed for JFK's assassination? NOVEMBER 20, 2013 |
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The Single Best JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theory Joe Kennedy did it. Because, why not, right? NOVEMBER 20, 2013 |
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A New Film Life of President John F. Kennedy [INTERVIEW] Director Susan Bellows on the PBS documentary "JFK." NOVEMBER 19, 2013 |
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The City With a Death Wish in Its Eye Dallas's role in Kennedy's murder. NOVEMBER 19, 2013 |
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Was JFK Really a Conservative? Where was John F. Kennedy on the ideological spectrum? NOVEMBER 18, 2013 |
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Would We Still Have Had "The Sixties" If Kennedy Had Lived? Remember, the turmoil of the 1960s stemmed from forces unrelated to JFK's assassination. NOVEMBER 18, 2013 |
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Why Lee Harvey Oswald Pulled the Trigger The Warren Commission painted him as a disaffected sociopath. But Oswald actually had a political reason to kill JFK: to impress Castro. NOVEMBER 18, 2013 |
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Does PBS's "JFK" Whitewash Kennedy's Flaws? The new PBS documentary fails to rise above the imagery crafted by Arthur Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen in the 1960s. NOVEMBER 17, 2013 |
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The Wisdom in Leaving Dealey Plaza to Visitors' Imaginations What's wrong with the new effort to commemorate the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. NOVEMBER 15, 2013 |
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Textbooks Put JFK's Camelot Under Siege The John F. Kennedy taught in textbooks today is a Kennedy with warts and all. NOVEMBER 12, 2013 |
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JFK Was an Unapologetic Liberal
His underrated career as ideological warrior. NOVEMBER 12, 2013 |
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JFK Holds Complex Place in Black History The slain president remains an African American icon, despite dragging his feet on civil rights. NOVEMBER 12, 2013 |
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How Jackie Kennedy Invented the Camelot Legend After JFK’s Death While the nation was still grieving JFK’s assassination, she used an influential magazine profile to rewrite her husband’s legacy and spawn Camelot. NOVEMBER 12, 2013 |
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JFK Assassination: CIA and New York Times are Still Lying to Us So why has "The Search for JFK" been unfairly forgotten? NOVEMBER 6, 2013 |
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This Book Was the First to Spill JFK's Secrets. So why has "The Search for JFK" been unfairly forgotten? OCTOBER 31, 2013 |
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The Man with the President’s Ear, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and JFK No historian has ever been as close to power as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was to President Kennedy. OCTOBER 28, 2013 |
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Rethinking the JFK Legacy There is a wide gap between the way historians view JFK and how the public perceives him. OCTOBER 28, 2013 |
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Channelling George Washington: What if John F. Kennedy Had Lived? Had JFK lived, could he have beaten second-termitis? OCTOBER 28, 2013 |
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JFK vs. the Military During the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy struggled as much with the Pentagon as he did with the Kremlin. SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 |
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Kennedy’s Finest Moment June 11, 1963, may not be a widely recognized date these days, but it might have been the single most important day in civil rights history. JUNE 11, 2013 |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis ExComm Meetings: Getting it Right After 50 Years It is just over thirty years since, as historian at the JFK Library, I listened for the first time to the then classified recordings of the Cuban missile crisis White House meetings of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm). OCTOBER 14, 2013 |
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Kennedy, the Elusive President Was Kennedy really a great president? OCTOBER 23, 2013 |
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Does Mimi Alford's New Memoir Finally Mean the Death Knell for the Camelot Myth of JFK? The confirmation of the philandering JFK. MARCH 5, 2012 |
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Who Really Won the 1960 Election? November 8, 2010 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the presidential election of 1960, which still very much interests those who care about disputed elections. NOVEMBER 14, 2010 |
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Did the 1960 Presidential Debates Really Matter? Probably not, but they have been election rituals ever since. SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 |
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1963: 11 Seconds in Dallas Within hours of John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963, the Kodak film exposed by Abraham Zapruder became the most important home movie ever made. NOVEMBER 23, 2007 |
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The Kennedy Brothers and Civil Rights In The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality, Basic Books, 2006, Nick Bryant concludes that JFK was too cautious and hesitant on civil rights. MAY 27, 2007 |
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Errors Still Afflict the Transcripts of the Kennedy Presidential Recordings Everything has a history including the writing of history itself. FEBRUARY 21, 2005 |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis Myth You Probably Believe Debunking the Trollope Ploy narrative propagated by RFK. OCTOBER 24, 2004 |
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Why the History Channel Had to Apologize for the Documentary that Blamed LBJ for JFK's Murder LBJ's family and friends heatedly protested the program. APRIL 7, 2004 |
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Why We Are Still Preoccupied with the Kennedy Might-Have-Beens After forty years, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy continues to ignite countless conspiracy theories, rising from the strange circumstances and seemingly inexplicable actions surrounding it. NOVEMBER 16, 2003 |