In their new book ‘Chokeholds,’ researchers argue Lee Harvey Oswald was just one piece of a sprawling conspiracy—one that other investigators claim never existed at all.
After his murder in Dallas, our perception of what happened has been shaped by the pop culture—and subculture—it inspired.
How a San Antonio restaurant manager pioneered the art of taco diplomacy.
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In 1963, Lackland Air Force Base experienced a cataclysmic explosion. People thought World War III had started. Today, it's been almost completely forgotten.
Thirty years after opening, the museum approaches its dark history from an increasingly detached remove.
A brief look at the unique world of JFK auctions.
The presumed killer of John F. Kennedy died in Texas, but his gravestone didn't rest in peace.
As five new books make clear, our thirty-sixth president refuses to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
The Oak Cliff apartment fixtures that witnessed the 1962-1963 fights between the assassin and his wife are on sale.
On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy explained why “we choose to go to the moon” to a crowd of 40,000 at Rice University.
The Internet's atwitter over the bongo-playing, oft-shirtless actor portraying the solemn JFK. But if Greg Kinnear can do it, why can't McConaughey?
The National Archives released recordings from Air Force One made in the hours after JFK's assassination in Dallas.
The ambulance that carried JFK's body from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field is going up on the auction block next month in Scottsdale.
Working on his memoir one day in 1969, LBJ spoke more frankly into a tape recorder about the Kennedys, Vietnam, and other subjects than he ever had before. The transcript of that tape has never been published—until now. Michael Beschloss explains its historical significance.
Conspiring minds want to know …
In this excerpt from Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency, letters, interviews, and historic documents offer a revealing glimpse into the stormy relationship between Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedys.
The singer's concert in Malaysia was called off after a photo circulated showing her bare shoulders emblazoned with a tattoo of the word "Allah."
The former lieutenant governor called to say that the reason for Kennedy’s trip to Texas in November 1963 was not because he was worried about the feud between U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough and Governor John Connally, or Don Yarborough’s role in it. Rather — and he says he was involved
This writeup was sent by one of his daughters, Sophie Yarborough. According to Ms. Yarborough, her father is gravely ill. I will request that commenters show proper respect in posting their remarks. Donald Howard Yarborough, who ran for governor of Texas three times and helped mobilize the progressive Democratic movement
How many readers realize that today, November 22, is the 45th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination? It has been interesting to see time do its work on the collective memory. As recently as 1991, the assassination’s hold on the American imagination was sufficient to get the Hollywood treatment: Oliver Stone’s
The conspiracy theories: the Cuban exiles theory.
The conspiracy theories: the Secret Service theory.
The conspiracy theories: the Mafia theory.
The conspiracy theories: the CIA theory.
The conspiracy theories: the LBJ theory.
The conspiracy theories: the shadow government theory.
The conspiracy theories: the Vietnam theory.
The conspiracy theories: the KGB theory.
The conspiracy theories: the FBI theory.
The conspiracy theories: the Castro theory.
It’s the most intriguing theory of all: two men with the same identity, one a patsy and the other a murderer who got off scot-free.
Nellie Connally, Red Duke, and others remember November 22, 1963.
Why the Warren Commission was right.
