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85 unusual facts about John F. Kennedy


1963 Dallas Cowboys season

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, stands out as a pivotal moment in the season.

1963 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

Iowa's game against Notre Dame was cancelled on November 23, 1963 following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy one day earlier.

6.5×52mm Mannlicher-Carcano

The cartridge has achieved some notoriety, as a World War II Italian Carcano rifle was identified by the Warren Commission as the weapon used by former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald in his assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Adam and the Ants

Lyrically it addressed subjects such as fetishism, historical figures like Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy and Cleopatra as well as art history, particularly the Futurism movement.

Aki Nawaz

The video ends with a shot of graffiti which quotes John F. Kennedy's statement "If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable."

Albert Lee Stephens, Jr.

(February 19, 1913 – September 6, 2001) was a United States federal judge, President John F. Kennedy's first appointee to the federal court

Americans for Democratic Action

James Isaac Loeb (later an ambassador and diplomat in the John F. Kennedy administration), the UDA's executive director, advocated disbanding the UDA and forming a new, more broadly-based, mass-membership organization.

Ann J. Land

She was an active campaigner for John F. Kennedy, and later became a member of the Philadelphia's Democratic Committee.

Barack Obama – Der schwarze Kennedy

The book's title, which implies a comparison between Obama and John F. Kennedy, seemed gimmicky to some people when it was published in December 2007.

Ben Scotti

In 1963, Scotti received brief national attention when the weekend after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy he precipitated a fight with teammate John Mellekas that sent Mellekas to the hospital.

Bernard Martin Decker

On December 12, 1962, Decker received a recess appointment from President John F. Kennedy to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois created by 75 Stat.

Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield

Following the Cuban missile crisis, he was one of the MPs who signed a letter calling on U.S. President John F. Kennedy to withdraw Polaris and Thor missiles from the UK as a gesture in response to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev withdrawing Soviet missiles from Cuba.

Bill Daniel

In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy appointed him to the position of governor of Guam, an office that he held from May 20, 1961 to January 20, 1963.

Blackhawk Museum

Over the years, the museum has also housed a 1962 John F. Kennedy limousine and a Chinese Hongqi, the first Chinese made automobile to be imported to the United States.

Bobby Baker

Baker, and one of his colleagues, lobbyist Bill Thompson, are said to have arranged for Quorum Club hostess Ellen Rometsch to meet John F. Kennedy.

Buddy West

West once said that the museum was born in a time of tragedy – the assassination in Dallas of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Bum Bright

The full-page, black-bordered ad ran on November 22, 1963, the day that Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

Carl Garner

During Carl Garner's over 57 years of public service working for the Corps of Engineers in Arkansas, he headed preparations for the dedication of Greers Ferry Dam by President John F. Kennedy and introduced innumerable families to the outdoors.

Cayo Sila Godoy

In 1963 Godoy, at the personal invitation of President John F. Kennedy, first visited the United States to do a concert tour.

Charles Tyroler II

He was also active in the Presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy (1960), Lyndon B. Johnson (1964), and Hubert H. Humphrey (1968).

Charles Wesley Parish

Parish's first photography sale was a photograph of President John F. Kennedy taken the day before he died, which gained a popular following and over 150 orders from students at Draughon's Business College.

Chucho Narvaez

In 1965, Narváez was one of the founders of Rede Globo, where he filed reports on topics such as the Argentine-born guerilla Che Guevara, the death of John F. Kennedy, and Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Brazil.

Civis romanus sum

In 1963, the phrase inspired the American president John F. Kennedy to proclaim, "Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was 'civis romanus sum'. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is 'Ich bin ein Berliner'."

Cornbread

President John F. Kennedy's staffers, who were mostly northeastern ivy league elites and despised Texan Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson's rural speech patterns, used to refer to Johnson behind his back as 'Uncle Cornpone' or 'Rufus Cornpone'.

Democrats for Nixon

A Democrat who had been Governor of Texas and United States Secretary of the Navy under John F. Kennedy, Connally formally announced the formation of the organization in August 1972.

Dutton/Dunwich

John Kenneth Galbraith, (Scholar, and economic adviser to U.S. President John F. Kennedy) was born at Iona Station, Ontario in 1908 and died 2006.

Emil Jones

The son of a Chicago Democratic precinct captain, Jones began his political career working for John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.

Frank D. Celebrezze I

Celebrezze's brother Anthony served as Mayor of Cleveland as well as in the cabinets of president's Kennedy and Johnson.

Frank Morales

He first became involved in politics after the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as a member of the Assassination Information Committee.

Geoffrey Perret

He has published over thirteen books dealing with a variety of topics, among them the U.S. Presidency - including several biographies of iconic Presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Ulysses S. Grant - leading American military commanders such as Douglas MacArthur, and pivotal American military engagements.

Godfrey Graham

For the next 40 years, he worked on some of the station's most significant programmes, including Discovery and the visit to Ireland of US President John F. Kennedy.

Gus Franklin Mutscher

While working for the Borden Company, Mutscher was first elected in 1960, at the age of twenty-eight, to the Texas House in 1960, when the Kennedy/Johnson slate narrowly won in Texas.

Henk Hofland

He covered the Presidential primaries in New Hampshire and West Virginia and heard John F. Kennedy speak, an experience he remembered as “flamboyant, unforgettable”.

Incanto

The video features rare clips of notable figures enjoying the romance of Naples in its heyday such as Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, John F. Kennedy, among others.

Irene Spencer

Ervil's hitlist would eventually reach the hundreds and include John F. Kennedy and the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Jacksonville Journal

When President Kennedy was assassinated, the Journal set records for evening readership with its Extra editions that kept locals updated about the tragedy.

Jacques Lowe

Jacques Lowe (January 24, 1930 – May 12, 2001) was a photographer and publisher best known for his role as U.S. President John F. Kennedy's official photographer during his election campaign and presidency.

James Benton Parsons

On August 9, 1961, Parsons was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by Judge Philip L. Sullivan.

James Hood

After seeing that Wallace would not step aside, Katzenbach called upon the assistance of President John F. Kennedy to force Wallace to permit the black students' entry into the university.

James I. Robertson, Jr.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy nominated Robertson to serve as the executive director of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, a federal committee that was foundering under the pressures of regional differences and the emerging civil rights movement, unable to organize a dignified commemoration of the war era.

James Kirkwood, Jr.

Kirkwood was a personal friend of Clay Shaw, the New Orleans businessman tried on conspiracy charges in the murder of President John F. Kennedy by District Attorney Jim Garrison.

James N. Purcell, Jr.

Purcell worked in public affairs for his entire career, serving in every presidential administration from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan.

Jean Lacouture

He is mainly known to the public because of his biographies, including the lives of Ho Chi Minh, Nasser, Léon Blum, De Gaulle, François Mauriac, Pierre Mendès-France, Mitterrand, Montesquieu, Montaigne, Malraux, Germaine Tillion, Champollion, Rivière, Stendhal and Kennedy.

Jesse William Curtis Jr.

On August 3, 1962, Curtis was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California created by 75 Stat.

Johannes Heisig

His large triptych "Be Berlin or: The Unifying Power of Music" shows musicians playing beside John F. Kennedy on his Berlin visit in the 1960s sitting in a car together with Willy Brandt and Konrad Adenauer.

John F. Kennedy Supreme Court candidates

Although he was president for less than three years, John F. Kennedy appointed two men to the Supreme Court of the United States: Byron White and Arthur Goldberg.

John F. Kennedy, Jr. plane crash

The intended flight path was along the coastline of Connecticut and across Rhode Island Sound to its final destination of Martha's Vineyard Airport (MVY).

Just after 10 p.m. on July 16th, the Martha's Vineyard Airport contacted the Federal Aviation Administration office in Bridgeport, Connecticut about Kennedy's flight, but was told that no information could be released over the phone.

According to the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM): "stress from everyday living can impair pilot performance, often in subtle ways. Distractions can so interfere with judgment that unwarranted risks are taken, such as flying into deteriorating weather conditions to keep on schedule".

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums

The film, containing both color and black-and-white footage, is narrated by Gregory Peck, and features extensive excerpts from President Kennedy's speeches, including color footage of his swearing in and inaugural address.

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.

John J. Herrera

He introduced President John F. Kennedy at a speaking engagement before a LULAC assembly on November 21, 1963, the day before his assassination.

John Keating Regan

On March 5, 1962, Regan was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri vacated by Randolph H. Weber.

John R. Hanny

John R. Hanny is an United States chef, author, and political operative and is best known for working in the White House during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as a special consultant and for serving as a visiting chef for administrations from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton.

Joseph E. Slater

With the election of John F. Kennedy he was names deputy assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs where he wrote the blueprint for the Peace Corps.

Juliet Sorensen

Sorensen is the daughter of Theodore C. Sorensen (Ted Sorensen), the former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy, and the author of Kennedy and Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, and Gillian M. Sorensen of the United Nations Foundation.

Kennedy Bakircioglü

Born in Södertälje, Bakircioglü was named after United States president John F. Kennedy.

Kennedytunnel

Opened to road traffic on 31 May 1969, and to rail traffic on 1 February 1970, the tunnel was named after John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States.

Kiamichi River

On October 29, 1961, President John F. Kennedy visited Big Cedar, east of Talihina, Oklahoma to give a speech marking the opening of the Ouachita National Forest Road.

Mario Escudero

Invited to perform at the White House for President John F. Kennedy, Escudero was counted among the best in his era; Ramón Montoya called him "the best flamenco guitarist of this new generation."

Marvella Bayh

The Bayhs were close friends with Senator Kennedy and his wife Joan Kennedy, as well as President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy.

Michael Tappin

The 'inner core' of this team, as one local councillor put it, made the John F. Kennedy campaign look like aged amateurs.

Monsignor Edward Pace High School

Pace's first graduating class created the first newspaper, called the Kerygma ("The Proclamation") as well as the first Torch yearbook, which acquired its name from president John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech, in which he referred to passing the "torch" to the next generation.

One Snow Hill Plaza

It receives the name Kennedy Tower from the mural dedicated to John F. Kennedy which was located in Snow Hill Circus until it was removed in mid-2006.

Presidential Memorial Certificate

The program was initiated in March 1962 by President John F. Kennedy and has been continued by all subsequent Presidents.

Probe 7, Over and Out

Hours before "Night Call" was to air though, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Ray Roberts

On November 22, 1963, Congressman Roberts was in the Dallas motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Rehbar-I

In 1960, President John F. Kennedy challenged US scientists to land Americans on the moon and bring them back safely to earth, before the decade was out.

Retenzija

It is bounded by the Boulevards of Mihajlo Pupin (west) and Nikola Tesla (east) and the streets of Prve pruge (north) and Džona Kenedija (south).

Rural Letter Carrier

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed executive order 10988 establishing employee-management cooperation in the federal service.

Sam Chew Jr.

is an American actor most famous for his role in Serial (1980), and for being the only actor to play both John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy on television.

Sandra Ramdhanie

On her radio show, Ramdhanie predicted that US President John F. Kennedy would reincarnate as an Irish writer 35 years after his assassination.

Space Task Group

President John F. Kennedy persuaded Congress to modify the law to give him the authority to appoint the Vice President to chair the council in his place.

After President John F. Kennedy set the goal in 1961 for the Apollo Program to land men on the Moon, NASA decided a much larger organization and a new facility was required to perform the Task Group's function, and it was transformed into the Manned Spacecraft Center (now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center), located in Houston, Texas.

Sunnyside Garden Arena

It was also the site of political rallies, including a 1960 visit by then senator, John F. Kennedy on his presidential campaign.

Terence Macartney-Filgate

He was the principal (but uncredited) cameraman on Primary, a seminal documentary about the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary campaign between senators John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey.

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

Prior to the events of the game, U.S. President John F. Kennedy authorized the creation of the Bureau of Operations and Command, also referred to as XCOM, which was intended to coordinate U.S. military forces in the event of a Soviet invasion of the USA.

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.

Trafficante crime family

In 1978, Trafficante once again testified before a Congressional committee, this time on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Tyler Kent

He condemned President John F. Kennedy as a communist and charged that he was killed by communists because he was abandoning his communist leanings.

Victor M. Longstreet

In 1962, President of the United States John F. Kennedy nominated Longstreet as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller), and Longstreet subsequently held this office from September 14, 1962 until December 31, 1965.

Walter E. Rogers

On November 22, 1963, Rogers was in the motorcade in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated, though four cars back.

Wedding dress of Jacqueline Bouvier

The wedding dress of Jacqueline Bouvier was worn by Jacqueline Bouvier (later Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) in her wedding to John F. Kennedy on 12 September 1953.

William Ruder

In 1960, Ruder was appointed by John F. Kennedy as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and took a two-year leave of absence from the firm.

Yosemite Firefall

The time of the Firefall was established as 9:00 p.m. The Ranger-Naturalists had to be careful to end their programs in the campgrounds and at Camp Curry right at 9:00, or the "fire would fall on the program." In 1962, President John F. Kennedy visited Yosemite National Park, and on that night an especially large fire was built on the Point to make a spectacular Firefall.


1963 World Ice Hockey Championships

A heavy defeat by Sweden prompted President John F. Kennedy to complain about their performance in a telephone call to David Hackett.

88 Poems

It includes a number of poems published in magazines, the poems which appeared in Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems, and 47 previously unpublished poems that were found in private collections and in the Hemingway papers held by the Kennedy Library.

Albert Lee Stephens, Jr.

On August 28, 1961, Stephens was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California vacated by Benjamin Harrison.

Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos

Valérian and Albert arrive at Kennedy Airport and travel to Schlomo Melsheim's house in Brooklyn.

Charles A. Kennedy

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mileage (in the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses), and the Committee on Rivers and Harbors (in the Sixty-sixth Congress).

Cross Hall

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

Dennis Hart Mahan

Mahan also founded the Napoleon Seminar at West Point, where advanced under-graduates and senior officers including Lee, Reynolds, Thomas and McClellan, studied and discussed the great European wars, Napoleon and Frederick the Great.

Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Harriman Kennedy (born 1967), American broadcast journalist, son of Robert F. Kennedy

ESTP

According to Keirsey, based on observations of behavior, notable Promoters might include John F. Kennedy, Teddy Roosevelt, Madonna, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.

Florencio Morales Ramos

He sang for president John F. Kennedy at the White House on November 1961, in a showcase of Puerto Rican musical talent that complemented a visit by then governor Luis Muñoz Marín to Washington.

Fred Krupp

Krupp serves on the board of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, the John F. Kennedy School of Government Environment Council, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and the Leadership Council of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Jack Worthington

He is best known for his claims that his mother confided to him, as a result of the discovery of a genetic illness of his presumed father later in life, that he is the illegitimate son of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.

Jeta Amata

Jeta’s latest film, Black November was premiered at the United Nations during the General Assembly in 2012 and was also screened at the Kennedy Center as well as the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The film inspired sponsoring of a bi-partisan resolution on the Niger Delta of Nigeria members of the 112th United States Congress, H.CON.RES.121.

John F. Aiso

In 1984, the Emperor of Japan awarded him the 3rd Class Order of the Rising Sun for his contributions to understanding and friendship between the United States and Japan.

John F. Baldwin, Jr.

Baldwin was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955, until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 1966.

John F. Boynton

In 1869, Boynton was the first geologist to examine the Cardiff Giant after it was unearthed near Cardiff, New York.

John F. Dickson

He remained in command of the precinct until Captain Joseph Dowling, who had formerly sided with Mayor Fernando Wood and the Municipal police force during the Police Riot of 1857, replaced Dickson upon joining the Metropolitan police in 1859.

John F. Kilkenny United States Post Office and Courthouse

a former judge of the District of Oregon and of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

John F. Melby

Appeals to State Department officials responsible for administrative matters failed, as did the advocacy of Pennsylvania Senator Joseph S. Clark, Jr. on Melby's behalf.

John F. O'Brien

He died on December 25, before the resignation could take effect, but already on December 22 Albert Conway was appointed by Governor Herbert Lehman to fill the vacancy temporarily, to take office on January 1, 1940.

John F. Starr

Starr was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1867, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1866.

John F. Thorson

On that day, in Dagami, Leyte province, in the Philippines, Thorson was wounded while single-handedly attacking an enemy trench, then smothered the blast of an enemy-thrown hand grenade with his body.

Josh P. Kennedy

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

Kathleen Donovan

As Port Authority Chairwoman, Donovan was a part-time official overseeing a bi-state agency governing all of the New York area ports, including LaGuardia Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport, along with the World Trade Center and the PATH mass transit system between New York and New Jersey.

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.

Richmond–San Rafael Bridge

The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (officially, the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of the San Francisco Bay in California, USA, connecting Richmond on the east to San Rafael on the west end.

Ruth Paine

Lee Harvey Oswald stored the 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle that he used to assassinate U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Ruth Paine's garage, unbeknownst to her and her husband, Michael Paine.

Sligo Middle School

Its receiving schools are Montgomery Blair High School, Albert Einstein High School, John F. Kennedy High School, Northwood High School, and Wheaton High School as a part of the Downcounty Consortium.

Taylor Humphries

Humphries was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Los Angeles and D.C. Humphries spent his sophomore year of high school at John F. Kennedy High School (Sacramento, California), yet graduated from Beverly Hills High School and received his BFA in Theatre/Film from Hampton University in Virginia.

Ted Robert Gurr

In 1968 Professor Gurr was asked to join the staff of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, established by President Lyndon Johnson after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.

The Airport

Due to their having to rebook and a rerouting of their flight, George and Kramer go between JFK and LaGuardia to pick them up.

Theodore H. White

White graduated from Harvard in 1938 summa cum laude (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was a classmate), with a degree in Chinese history and studies, the first student of John K. Fairbank.

Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.

Eliot graduated from Harvard College in 1948 and received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1956.

Trans-Bridge Lines

Connections are also available on certain Trans-Bridge schedules to John F. Kennedy International Airport, with service running to and from Terminal 4 at the Q10 bus stop, twice daily as well as Newark Airport.

Tropico 4

The "loading" and "saving" screens have quotes from various dictators, leaders, politicians, and revolutionaries such as Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Augusto Pinochet, Nikita Khrushchev, Leon Trotsky, Mobutu Sese Seko, Todor Zhivkov, Vladimir Putin, Josip Broz Tito, Muammar Gaddafi, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Walter L. Kennedy

He soon became owner and operator of a Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge-Jeep dealership, which became one of the largest car dealerships in Vermont.

William F. Schulz

From 1997 to 2005, Federal Election Commission records show that William F. Schulz contributed a total of $9,450 to the campaigns of Democratic Party politicians Gary Ackerman, Geraldine Ferraro, Carolyn McCarthy, Steve Israel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Edward M. Kennedy, Charles Schumer, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Bill Nelson and Al Gore.

William Usery, Jr.

Usery was responsible for leading labor negotiations and helping to administer and service union contracts at Cape Canaveral AFMTC, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center Manned Spacecraft Center.