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Searching for Truth in Dale Myers' House of Mirrors
News stories about President John F. Kennedy, his administration, his policies, his assassination, and related events.
Searching for Truth in Dale Myers' House of Mirrors
“This was a system that allowed FBI officials to say we have searched our central records system and there is no record of illegal conduct’’ by the bureau, said Athan G. Theoharis, a former professor at Marquette University and a specialist on the reign of Hoover, who served as the agency’s first director, from 1924 to 1972, and who is known to have maintained his own files that he ordered destroyed after his death.
“It was a pretty efficient system Hoover devised,’’ Theoharis said. “If you can minimize who knew what the bureau is doing, you can minimize any legal action’’ against the bureau if it operated outside of the law.
“Well I don’t know that I can (play him well). It’s part of the challenge, but I’m pretty confident I could do it. It would be a lot of research and time put in. Where I come from, he’s a pretty important person and it’s a lot of responsibility … the script comes in in a few weeks and hopefully (it’s) a good script.”Damon’s a great actor and in my opinion he was born to play this guy. He has the looks for it and the talent’s definitely there, we just need him to revamp his Bostonian accent from The Departed and we might be on to something. Lets cross our fingers that the script is good, because if it’s not this will be such a missed opportunity.
Spielberg is selling "Jackie," a hot script about the late First Lady that's making the rounds in Hollywood. Noah Oppenheim, the head of development at Reveille who's also a journalist, author and former producer at the "Today" show has written the script, which examines the days immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy from Jackie Kennedy's point-of-view. Spielberg is on board the project in a producerial capacity.
The life and death of JFK have been frequently visited on television with projects such as the 1983 NBC miniseries "Kennedy," starring Martin Sheen. And three years ago, Emilio Estevez took on the aftermath of the events surrounding the RFK assassination at the Ambassador Hotel. A film from Jackie's point of view, however, would be more rare. More as it develops.
-- Steven Zeitchik, LA Times
Photo: Jackie Kennedy. Credit: LA Library
RTE star Ryan Tubridy will launch his debut book on John F Kennedy to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the president's election.
Titled JFK In Ireland, the book is set to hit shelves on November 5.
The Late Late Show host is in the final stages of "the mopping-up process" for his eagerly awaited first book and has just four weeks left until his deadline to hand it over to publisher Harper Collins UK.
The father-of-two, who has been writing the book for the past 18 months and committed to the project long before he took over the Late Late Show gig last September, has spent much of his time researching it in the National Library.
The self-confessed young fogey described the book as "a close study of the shenanigans behind the scenes" at the time of the 1963 visit. "This book aims to present the public side of that whirlwind Kennedy visit in 1963 from those who may have stories, gifts, photos, video, memories or simply an opinion on it."
White House staff members and volunteers sorting through letters of condolence in December 1963. More than a million people wrote Jacqueline Kennedy after her husband's assassination.
At Jerry Mitchell's "Journey to Justice" blog, there's a post that says James Earl Ray knew about a KKK bounty on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that was worth $100,000. Which is leading some to wonder if Ray was actively trying to claim the money when he murdered the civil-rights leader.
File photo via AP
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Lively anecdotes retold by an advance man for presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Imagine one’s first job assignment is arranging John F. Kennedy’s visit to Fort Worth, Texas on the morning of November 22, 1963. Lively and fascinating, Out in Front reveals Jeb Byrne’s experiences as an advance man for JFK and as the deputy director of the LBJ advance unit during the 1964 campaign. Byrne’s life experiences illuminate the work done behind the scenes of campaign stops and political appearances. His personal memoir exposes the duties, contemplations, and struggles of the advance man, all of which are hidden from the public eye. “Most other studies of political campaigns have paid scant attention to the role of the largely anonymous corps of advance personnel and other essential, but unheralded, campaign workers.” — James B. Rhoads, former Archivist of the United States “A remarkable history of the early days of the art of political advance. Jeb Byrne is a gifted writer who has recorded, with style and wit, the story of how the Kennedy and Johnson presidential campaigns developed the core element of presidential public appearances—political advance—which has now evolved into a sophisticated and expensive standard undertaking for all presidents. Everyone who reads this book will reach the same conclusion: Jeb Byrne is a fantastic writer.” — Harold C. Pachios, former Associate White House Press Secretary under LBJ “Jeb Byrne has written a gem of a book about retail politicking. With humor, compassion, and insight, he reveals the world of political advance. Its denizens are neither supposed to be seen nor heard, but their handiwork is the stuff campaigns are made of.” — Max Holland, author of The Kennedy Assassination Tapes “An excellent and interesting personal memoir of advance work.” — Sean Savage, author of JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party Jeb Byrne joined the administration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in a public affairs position and was an advance man in Fort Worth on JFK’s last trip. He later served Lyndon Johnson as a principal advance man in LBJ’s 1964 campaign. A career civil servant in later years, Byrne’s last position was Director of the Federal Register, and he is now retired from the federal government. | |||||||||||||||
Within 7 weeks of President John F. Kennedy's death in 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy received nearly 1 million condolence letters. Two years later, the volume of messages would nearly double. Written on elegant stationary, scraps of paper, in black ink or in pencil smudged by tears, the correspondence would remain essentially untouched for the next 46 years.
Now, noted historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick has selected approximately 250 of the letters for inclusion in Letters to Jackie, a remarkable human record that preserves the grief of a nation following the assassination of President JFK. This is the first book ever to examine the collection of letters, providing a fascinating perspective on what is arguably the most devastating event in 20th century America.
Fitzpatrick will be at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza for a free presentation and book signing event on March 11.
During a visit to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, a 3-year-old gazed up from her stroller at a black-and-white photograph picturing a dark-haired man in his late 20s. The portrait was taken almost a half-century ago, but the child recognized that face instantly.
"Grandpa!" Marianne Jackson cried.
Her gray-haired grandfather smiled in delighted surprise.
Yes, Bob Jackson said, that's me.
Through a child's eyes, the 75-year-old former newspaper photographer was reminded of the magic of the camera -- the power of a lens and the click of a shutter to freeze time and preserve it forever.
Jackson's award-winning career was defined in one captured fraction of a second.
The moment arrived on a Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963.
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