Kennedy warned the Soviet Union against getting involved in the U.N. establishment of peace and independence in the Congo. The Bay of Pigs invasion took place in Cuba on April 17, 1961, sending almost 1,500 trained Cuban exiles storming the Bay of Pigs beaches. The initial air strike on ...
After a fire raged through the Shriver mansion in Potomac this summer, youngest son Anthony Kennedy Shriver was faced with a dilemma: What to do about Best Buddies Ball, the gigantic affair his parents, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, host each year to raise money for the charity...
Fox News:What was it like comforting Ethel Kennedy? Gifford:I was related to Ethel by marriage because her son Michael was married to [Frank Gifford’s] daughter Vicky. And they had three beautiful children. Michael was killed in a tragic ski accident in Aspen. It was New Year’s Eve 19...
Borden, who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother was born and died in Fall River. Robert F. Kennedy Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy The politician was born in Brookline. Kennedy died in 1968 by assassination in Los Angeles. Billy Squi...
As the Korean War waged on,United Nations soldiers liberated Seoul for a second time in March 1951. Later that year, the U.N. and communist North Korean forces engaged in truce talks. A second Red Scare emerged whenEthel and Julius Rosenberg were convictedof conspiracy to commit espionage and...
the charismatic future president despised having his picture taken at the time and would have to be dragged from the shower room when newspaper photographers wanted to photograph the team. Coaches later recalled that Kennedy was a bit frail as an athlete and looked like a lanky string bean but...
Kennedy was elected president, as reported on Nov. 9 by the San Jose Mercury, in one of the closest elections in U.S. history. A symbol of youthful vigor in a changing world, JFK was the youngest president in history and the first Catholic president ever elected. 1961: REBEL FORCE ...