12, 1963 in Houston, Texas. (Image credit: Space Center Houston) As it turns out, the lectern from which President John F. Kennedy proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon" has been rightly on display for 30 years, contrary to a report that it was an "artifact fake." Space Center...
View on timeline September 12, 1962 Rice University Speech President Kennedy delivers a speech at Rice University in Houston, Texas. View on timeline September 30, 1962 Ole Miss Riots President Kennedy federalizes the National Guard to protect the University of Mississippi's first African-American ...
The day after John F. Kennedy was killed, CBS News’ Dan Rather stood at what he called the now infamous corner of Houston and Elm streets in downtown Dallas, where the shooting had occurred. With the camera closing in on the Texas School Book Depository and the corner window from which ...
President John F. Kennedy delivers his iconic 'Moon Speech' at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Speaking from Rice Stadium, he declares that the United States intends to reach the moon before the end of the decade, and "become the world's leading space-faring nation." In the speech, th...
From Houston, Kennedy traveled north to Fort Worth, Texas. On the morning of Nov. 22, Kennedy spoke to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce at breakfast. "We are still the keystone in the arch of freedom," he told those in attendance. "We will continue to do … our duty, and the peo...
As you journey through Dallas, you'll feel the weight of history in the very places where it happened. Tour Stops ▶Love Field ▶Mockingbird Lane ▶Lemmon Avenue ▶Turtle Creek Boulevard ▶Cedar Springs Road ▶Texas School Book Depository ▶Dealey Plaza ▶Houston Street ▶Parkland...
“At the corner of Elm and Northeast Houston Staring up at the Southeast window Someone circled allegedly I refuse to pay six bucks to see” 2. The Truth About Us by The Skydiggers “Ah Marina, Marina, it’s sad and it’s lonely, when you’re pointing the gun at the president I’m...
JFK’s Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, who ran the Rockefeller Foundation from 1952-1961, and was also a hawk on Vietnam, is another one who merits close scrutiny in the Coup of 1963. Kennedy had appointed Rusk because it was unlikely that the Senate would confirm JFK’s first choice J...
If he were not supposed to be supervising them, his bosses would have assigned him to be at his home office in Houston, Texas; or on his oil rigs in the Caribbean. But, even in context, this memo and the phone call it describes is still weird, no? I mean, how could Bush have be...
"Some skepticism is always justified," the 68-year-old Houston-area woman said. "I just think when people take it to extremes, they lose me." According to the AP-GfK survey, conducted in mid-April, 59 percent of Americans think multiple people were involved in a conspiracy to kill the...