Kennedy Family Tree: How Many Kennedys Are Left? A Kennedy Curse?

The history of the influential Kennedy family has been marked by an immense amount of tragedy. The death of Senator Ted Kennedy on August 25 as a result of a brain tumor has saddened many Americans and American...

Robert F. Kennedy Predicted a Black President in 1961

"There's no question that in the next thirty or forty years, a Negro can also achieve the same position that my brother has as President of the United States, certainly within that period of time." Appearing...

Robert Kennedy's 1948 Reports from Palestine

In April 1948, one month before Israel declared independence,Robert Kennedy, then 22, traveled to Palestine to report on theconflict for the Boston Post. His four dispatches from thescene were published in June 1948. The newspaper closed in 1956, andfor decades the reports...

SIRHAN SIRHAN, A Mystery No More

On June 5, 1968, a Muslim-Arab immigrant from Palestine, shot and killed Senator Robert Kennedy, who was then running for president. Most of us who watch closely the issue and history of Islamic terrorism against...

Bobby: Memories on a bleak anniversary

"Today is June 5th. For my parents’ generation the day that “matters” is June 6th - D-Day, the day "the greatest generation" expressed what Lincoln called in the Gettysburg Address "the last full measure of devotion." That's the day...

Black Like Me

"When Senator Biden made his gaff about Barack Obama he hit on the unsettling subtext in the American psyche; was Barack Obama really 'black'. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking...

CIA role claim in Kennedy killing

"David Morales was Chief of Operations and once told friends: "I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard." New video and photographic evidence that puts...

Election Time USA: Thoughts on the Building Madness

"But what’s so interesting is that the steps taken to avoid another hanging chad debacle may have further undermined Americans’ confidence in our voting system. Jon Stokes, writing on Ars Technica,...

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