JFK’s Speeches In the fictional world of Saving Jackie K, the novel explores a scenario where JFK assassins botched their mission, killing First Lady Jackie Kennedy by mistake. This tragic outcome catapults the US into a chronic war with the Soviet Union. In real life, John F. Kennedy is remembered as a proponent of peace. [...]
Nikita Khrushchev JFK Assassination Suspects – Nikita Khrushchev During the power struggle following the 1953 death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Khrushchev eventually emerged victorious. By late 1956, the new leader taunted the US and its western allies with the threat, “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury [...]
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Saving Jackie K is a page-turning novel that springs from the premise that would-be assassins missed, and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy lived beyond November 22, 1963. But who was the man that we mourn today? John F. Kennedy was the thirty-fifth president of the United States, from his inauguration on January 20, [...]
On March 13, 1939, the Kennedy family attends the coronation of Pope Pius XII. John F. Kennedy‘s father, Joseph Kennedy, served as United States Ambassador to Great Britain at the time. Afterwards, young John Kennedy travels through Germany, Poland and Russia on the eve of World War II, reporting to his father on the imminence [...]
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Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on what would have been his 84th Birthday. MLK was born on January 15, 1929. In a watershed moment for the American Civil Rights Movement, activist Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his monumental “I have a dream” speech on August 28, 1963. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial [...]
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December 16: Fifty-two years ago in 1960, JFK Appointed Brother RFK as Attorney General. In November 1959, Robert Kennedy became manager of his brother’s presidential campaign. Following the Kennedy victory, the President-elect tapped his brother, on December 16, 1960, to be Attorney General. John F. Kennedy‘s choice of Robert Kennedy as Attorney General was controversial, [...]
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On November 29, 1963, one week after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, President Johnson issued an Executive Order to rename NASA’s Launch Operations Center as Kennedy Space Center, in his honor. Whereas President John F. Kennedy lighted the imagination of our people when he set the moon as our target and man as the means to [...]
On this date in 1955, Doctor Emmet L. Brown of “Back to the Future” fame conceives the idea of the flux capacitor after hitting his head during a fall. The device makes Time Travel possible. Thirty years later, Marty McFly will use his DeLorean time travel machine to travel back to 1955. For a thrilling [...]
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52 years ago today marked the first televised presidential debate. Vice President Richard Nixon sparred with Senator John F. Kennedy. After eight years of serving as VP alongside Ike (Dwight Eisenhower), Nixon threw his hat into the 1960 presidential election. During the first-ever televised candidates’ debate, Nixon appeared tired and pale after recovering from a [...]
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49 Years Ago, JFK Expresses Outrage and Grief over Birmingham Bombing. In a horrific racial hate crime, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963. The explosion at the African-American church killed four girls, marking a turning point in the U.S. 1960s Civil Rights Movement. The three-story 16th [...]
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