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unusual facts about Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy


Mauritian general election, 1948

However, the Governor-General Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy appointed twelve conservatives to the Council, largely to ensure the dominance of English and French speakers.


ABC News Breakfast

The main fill-in presenters for Trioli are Tamara Oudyn, Beverley O'Connor and Melissa Clarke and the fill-in presenters for Rowland are Paul Kennedy, Neal Woolrich and Waleed Aly.

Alex Hitz

After selling the restaurant and inspired by his step-father’s 1991 Kennedy Center Honor, Hitz moved to New York City and co-produced several Broadway shows, including Triumph of Love (1997) and the revival of The Sound of Music (1998), as well as the revival of On the Town in Central Park with the New York Public Theater.

Allan Jackson

Jackson was handed a slip of paper reading "JFK DEAD" and immediately went on air with the announcement, reporting Kennedy's death as a fact (which had not yet been confirmed, although it was true that Kennedy was already dead), and playing the U.S. national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.

American Conspiracies

In the home movie fortuitously recorded by Abraham Zapruder, Kennedy’s head jerks backward, indicating that he had been hit from the front.

Baron Sherard

Reverend Bennet Sherard Calcraft Kennedy, illegitimate son of the sixth Earl, was the father of the author and journalist Robert Sherard.

Benjamin Hall Kennedy

He was born at Summer Hill, near Birmingham, the eldest son of Rann Kennedy (1772–1851), of a branch of the Ayrshire family which had settled in Staffordshire.

Bill Kennedy Shaw

In October 1930 Kennedy Shaw accompanied Ralph Alger Bagnold on a trip from Cairo to Ain Dalla, into the sand sea, past Ammonite hill then past the Gilf Kebir south to Uweinat and on to Wadi Halfa, returning via the Arba’in slave road via Salima oasis, Kharga and then Aysut.

Bright Victory

Bright Victory was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Arthur Kennedy) and Best Sound, Recording (Leslie I. Carey).

Calum Kennedy

Kennedy's daughter Fiona is also a singer and was for a time co-host of the long running BBC children's series Record Breakers with Roy Castle, and his granddaughter is the model and actress Sophie Kennedy Clark.

Chestnut Ridge people

A 1977 survey of obituaries in The Barbour Democrat showed that 135 of 163 "Ridge people" (83%) were married to people having the last names Mayle, Norris, Croston, Prichard, Collins, Adams, or Kennedy.

Cross Hall

During the Kennedy Administration restoration, interior decorator Stéphane Boudin arranged the furnishings to more closely resemble the cross hall at Malmaison.

Drinkmore Cafe

Owned and run by software executive Scott Kennedy, The Drinkmore was the headquarters of Seattle Wireless and was the Howard Dean meetup spot during his 2004 presidential campaign.

Grampa Simpson

He says he was "the first to discover his terrible secret" after Kennedy mutters to himself, "Ich bin ein Berliner"; a phrase, in reality, Kennedy did not say until 20 years later.

Hugh Alexander Kennedy

In the story "Some Reminiscences of the Life of Augustus Fitzsnob, Esq." (inspired by Thackeray's The Book of Snobs), Kennedy gave the score of a chess game said to be played by Napoleon and Count Bertrand.

John H. Rubel

John H. Rubel (born April 27, 1920) was a business executive in the early post-World War II years of the defense electronics industry, later serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy administration.

Josh P. Kennedy

Kennedy had his most consistent year earning himself his first All-Australian team selection.

Kennedy Building

Kennedy-Worthington Blocks, Springfield, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Hampden County

Kennedy Centre, Belfast

The site was formerly a Lucozade factory, which Hugh Kennedy bought, developed and opened his supermarket, Curleys, in 1981 on the site.

Kennedy's Kitchen

With that group, he co-produced two recordings (Joseph Harvey’s Fiddle was Left in the Rain and Seamaisin: Live at the Tin Shop) as well as produced music for the sound track of Dennis Courtney’s film of James Joyce’s Araby in 1997; Araby was nominated for a Student Academy Award in the Narrative Film Category.

Lauren Kennedy

Kennedy appeared in the original cast of the short-lived Side Show as the standby for Emily Skinner, for whom she stepped in many times due to Skinner's frequent absences.

Lechmere, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board

The opinion of the Court was delivered by Justice Thomas, who was joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justices O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, and Souter.

Lesser of two evils principle

In 1963, the Kennedy administration backed a coup against Abdul-Karim Qassem who had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy, and then the Central Intelligence Agency both covertly and overtly helped the new Ba'ath Party government of Abdul Salam Arif in ridding the country of suspected leftists and communists.

Marcus O'Sullivan

In addition to his ties to American record holder Bob Kennedy, O'Sullivan has coached elite professional runners such as Canadian indoor world silver medalist Carmen Douma-Hussar, and New Zealander Adrian Blincoe.

Mary Jo Kopechne

Kennedy expressed remorse over his role in her death in his posthumously-published memoir, True Compass.

Mother's Finest

Beginning in 2004, Joyce Kennedy was seen on the international Daughters Of Soul tour along with Sandra St. Victor, Nona Hendryx, Lalah Hathaway (daughter of Donny Hathaway), Indira Khan (daughter of Chaka Khan), and Simone (daughter of Nina Simone).

Neithrop

The low rise flats called Kennedy House were named after U.S. President John F. Kennedy when they were built in the mid-1960s.

Opium Magazine

Opium Magazine features many notable writers and artists including Etgar Keret, Aimee Bender, Tao Lin, David Gaffney, Davis Schneiderman, Alison Weaver, D.B. Weiss, Diane Williams, Jessy Randall, Tana Wojczuk, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Ben Greenman, Jack Handey, Dawn Raffel, Stuart Dybek, Josip Novakovich, Dan Golden, Terese Svoboda, Benjamin Percy, Shya Scanlon, Christopher Kennedy and Art Spiegelman.

Outrun the Sky

The response to her latest album is such that Lalah considers the wait between albums to have been worth it: “I’m so happy about the reaction, it’s a real validation” and it comes towards the end of a year that has included a number of highpoints including her participation in the “Daughters Of Soul” European tour which was created by Sandra St. Victor and involved Lalah, Simone (daughter of Nina Simone), Milini Khan (Chaka’s daughter), Nona Hendryx and Joyce Kennedy.

Peter Rodgers Organization

Stephen Rodgers personally holds the copyright to several films, including The Unearthly (1957) and Beginning of the End (1957) He also owns O’Kennedy’s Ireland, a documentary about President John F. Kennedy’s visit to his ancestral home of Dublin, Ireland, where the O'Kennedy dynasty began, only months prior to his assassination in 1963.

Political scandals in Logan County, West Virginia

President John F. Kennedy once famously asked local political boss Raymond Chafin how much money he wanted so that Kennedy could carry Southern West Virginia in the 1960 Presidential Election, and Chafin replied "thirty five," meaning $3500.

President Kennedy School and Community College

It was originally to be called either Rookery Lane School or Holbrook High, but the assassination of President John F Kennedy during the approval stage resulted in the school being named after President John F. Kennedy and was founded in 1966.

Profiles in Courage

Why England Slept (published version of Kennedy's bachelor's thesis)

Richard Paul Pavlick

Pavlick's enmity toward John F. Kennedy boiled over after the close of the 1960 U.S. Presidential election, in which Kennedy had defeated Republican Richard Nixon.

Richard Zussman

In the summer of 2008, Zussman worked in Washington, D.C. as a television reporter for KTAL in Shreveport, Louisiana covering the Senate race between John Kennedy and incumbent Mary Landrieu.

Robert B. Meyner

At the 1960 Democratic National Convention Meyner received 43 votes for president, finishing fifth behind John F. Kennedy (806 votes), Lyndon Johnson (409 votes), Stuart Symington (86 votes) and Adlai Stevenson (79.5 votes) and just ahead of Hubert Humphrey who received 41 votes.

Robert W. MacDonald

MacDonald pulled a similar prank later during the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy was the featured speaker at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Robinson Crusoé

The cast included Roderick Kennedy (Sir William Crusoe), Enid Hartle (Lady Deborah Crusoe), Alan Opie (Jim Cocks), Wyndham Parfitt (Will Atkins), Yvonne Kenny (Edwige), John Brecknock (Robinson Crusoé), Marilyn Hill Smith (Suzanne), Alexander Oliver (Toby), and Sandra Browne (Man Friday).

Ron Kennedy

Ron Kennedy resigned after his December 2008 diagnosis of brain cancer, from which he died, aged 56, in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Ryan O'Shaughnessy

O'Shaughnessy won the chart battle with the single charting at No.3 in the Irish Singles Chart beating Kennedy's song "Try" which charted at No.15.

Seven Men from Now

Seven Men from Now was the first in a seven-film collaboration between Scott, Boetticher, and producer Harry Joe Brown, with five of the films written by Kennedy.

SS Cardena

The ship took its name from Cardena Bay on the south shore of Kennedy Island, at the mouth of the Skeena River, which in turn was named after García López de Cárdenas, an early Spanish explorer of the New World.

Star in a Bra

Lauren Colfer from Catford beat Daisy Hill and Nadine Kennedy in the public vote.

Tague

James Tague (b. 1936), a notable witness to the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy

Texas Theatre

On November 22, 1963, shortly after the fatal shooting of President Kennedy and the wounding of Texas governor John Connally (who was the jump seat passenger in the Kennedy limousine) at 12:30 p.m. and the fatal shooting of Officer Tippit at approximately 1:16 p.m., Oswald entered the Texas Theatre shortly after 1:30 p.m. without paying for a ticket, ostensibly to avoid police.

The Lucy Kennedy Show

In the first episode, Kennedy interviewed her fellow chat show presenter Ryan Tubridy and professional comedian PJ Gallagher.

The Price of Power

Even in the assassination scene, Cuadra seems to emulate many of the same actions from Jackie Kennedy's last moments with John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.


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