Foxtel Magazine

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It is perhaps the most iconic success story in American history: the Kennedy family’s rise from poverty to the presidency, exerting a level of influence that helped to shape the modern United States. The tale is explored in HISTORY’s six-part docuser

New Idea

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JFK’s dashing grandson is planning on throwing his hat into the political arena – but concerns are growing that he could become the next victim of the infamous Kennedy curse! In August, John ‘Jack’ Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg spoke alongside his m

New Idea

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• Joseph P. Kennedy Jr, 1944. The eldest Kennedy son was killed when his plane exploded during World War II. • Kathleen ‘Kick’ Kennedy, 1948. Kathleen died in a plane crash in France along with her fiancé. • John F. Kennedy, 1963. While President o

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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On the evening of Friday, August 2, some 30 members of the Kennedy family gathered around a firepit in the grounds of their famous compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. On the Saturday and Sunday they sailed and swam in the blue waters off Cape Co

People

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Friends and family open up about the woman who captured JFK Jr.’s heart—and died alongside him 18 years ago: ‘They would love hard, and they would fight hard’

NPR

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NPR journalists will lead book chats with writers in a wide range of genres at the 2017 National Book Festival.

The Australian Women's Weekly

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On the evening of Friday, August 2, some 30 members of the Kennedy family gathered around a firepit in the grounds of their famous compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. On the Saturday and Sunday they sailed and swam in the blue waters off Cape Co

People

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NEARLY 20 YEARS AFTER THEIR DEATHS, A NEW BOOK ON THE KENNEDY FAMILY EXAMINES THE STORIED COUPLE’S PASSION—AND PROBLEMS

People

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Earning Oscar buzz for playing the First Lady in the new movie Jackie, Natalie Portman talks about her transformation

People

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She masterminded the slain President’s shining legacy—but had no illusions about his flaws as a husband

The Atlantic

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An interview with Joel Surnow about the show, which debuts this Sunday on Reelz Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, and Barry Pepper as John F., Jackie, and Bobby Kennedy in The Kennedys. Photo credit: Reelz. The terrorists, saboteurs, and corrupt government

New Idea

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America’s unofficial royal family, the Kennedys, have had bad luck for decades – from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and then his brother Robert, to John F. Kennedy Jr’s 1999 plane crash and Mary Kennedy’s suicide in 2012. But 2020

Woman's Day

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The accidental deaths of President John F Kennedy’s grandniece Maeve Kennedy McKean and her son Gideon in a canoe accident last week has left many believing that America’s own “royal family” is truly cursed. Maeve, 41, and her eight-year-old son Gide

New Idea

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The Kennedys may be a wealthy political dynasty, but the powerful American family has suffered generations of tragedy and scandal that has cast a shadow over their success. The descendants of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr have been blighted by so many assass

The Atlantic

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One of the final stops on the first lady’s farewell tour found her cheering, commiserating, and giving many, many hugs.

The Rake

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‘Fashion Leader Favors A Lengthened Hemline’, read a headline in The New York Times on November 29, 1961, accompanying a picture of a svelte woman about to cross the road. This, the caption informed readers, was “Countess Crespi in green wool suit wi

People

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When John Loengard knew what he wanted a shot to look like, the Life magazine photographer and photo editor would stop at nothing until he found it. “The word that comes to mind is perfectionist,” says Loengard’s longtime friend, photo historian Russ

The Guardian

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From Covid-19 to protests in the street, the US is in crisis – yet the first lady is focused squarely on her back yard

NPR

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NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the role of "first ladies," and whether we should call them that at all.

History of War

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Author: Christopher Sandford Publisher: The History Press Price: £20 Released: Out now  There have been countless books on John F. Kennedy and many on the so-called ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the United States. Christopher Sandford ha

The Atlantic

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Like Obama, JFK and LBJ found their agendas stymied by a hostile Congress, until American voters stepped in to demand change.

Chicago Tribune

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The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Saturday, Oct. 7: ___ His presidency was brief - two years, 10 months, two days. Yet the life and murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy still fascinate Americans 53 years after shots rang out on

Amateur Photographer

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Life with the Kennedys: Photographs by Mark Shaw runs at Proud Central, London, until 6 May 2018. Entrance is free. For more details, visit www.proud.co.uk. Life magazine photojournalist Mark Shaw had privileged access to the Kennedy family during t

OK Magazine Australia

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There’s a baby on the way for Chris Pratt and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger! The exciting news was confirmed when the author, 30, stepped out for a casual walk in LA, where her blossoming bump was hard to miss! Since tying the knot in June last

You South Africa

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The oldest of the children born to Joseph P Senior and his wife, Rose. He died in an in-flight explosion in 1944. Joe Senior and Rose’s daughter died in a plane crash in France in 1948. Jack, as his family and friends called him, was assassinated i

People

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They’re one big, famous family! Shortly after returning from their romantic honeymoon in Hawaii, Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger jetted off to Hyannis Port, Mass., to celebrate Independence Day with the extended Kennedy clan. Pratt, 40, marr

Gun Digest

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I’d long heard rumors of the XP-100 being used in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, but I never pursued the details. If this conspiracy theory is to be believed, the XP-100 (in the prototype .222 Remington chambering) was the gun deployed by

History of War

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Author: Christopher Sandford Publisher: The History Press Price: £20 Released: Out now  There have been countless books on John F. Kennedy and many on the so-called ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the United States. Christopher Sandford ha

Time Magazine International Edition

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Undermining a dictator Minerva, Patria and María Teresa Mirabal—sisters, all married with children—were not likely revolutionaries. But in the Dominican Republic in the late 1950s they risked their lives resisting the regime of Rafael Trujillo. The s

Texas Monthly

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Julia Sweig’s just-published Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight (Random House) is the most significant biography of the late first lady to appear in more than two decades. For the book and her new ABC News podcast In Plain Sight: Lady Bird John