Wikio - John Kennedy

Hollywood actor Greg Kinnear revealed to be long lost son of John F. Kennedy (Indymedia ireland)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:59:06 GMT

Rumours of other illegimate Kennedy children are not confirmed The world has reacted with shock that Hollywood actor Greg Kinnear star of "As Good As It Gets" "Stuck On You" and "We Were Soldiers" as been exposed as the long lost son of assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It has been confirmed that Suzanne Kinnear, the wife of a career diplomat State Department,...

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Ex-Cop Who Helped Catch Oswald Dies (The Post Chronicle)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:18:48 GMT

Retired Dallas police detective Paul Bentley, who helped capture Lee Harvey Oswald after U.S. President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination, has died....

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Obama mania grips 200,000 (News Scotsman)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

IT WAS part John F Kennedy, part Martin Luther King and part Ronald Reagan. But in the end, it fused into one man: Barack Obama.

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Obama and the "Keeper of the Secret" (The LRC Blog)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:17:10 GMT

It seems that every once in a while, our political classes and their media partners place the mantle of "Keeper of the Secret" upon a political figure. After he was assassinated (but not before) John F. Kennedy was given that...

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Ich Bin Ein Whatever (The Huffington Post)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:02:04 GMT

Earlier today I wrote a post about all the "Ich Bin Ein" headlines that were springing up around Barack Obama 's visit to Berlin, in a callback to the famous speech wherein John F. Kennedy declared "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" which was translated as "I am a Berliner." (You can read it here and watch him do it here .) JFK delivered that speech in June 1963, and the full context of the quote...

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Breaking Down Invisible Walls (Connecting.the.Dots)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:18:00 GMT

Barack Obama in Berlin today talked about tearing down walls that separate nations, just as John F. Kennedy did in 1963 and Ronald Reagan in 1987, but there were differences. JFK and Reagan wanted to break down the physical barrier that symbolized a Cold War. Obama was offering himself as the symbol of a new century without political, ideological or psychological walls between people....

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Obama Tells Germans We Can Change the World (democrats.com)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:09:38 GMT

Drawing on his extraordinary oratorical skills to echo John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama reached out to the people of Berlin - and the world - to tear down new walls and unite around humanity's most urgent global issues . "This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet . Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise...

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The Rock Star Candidate (Waldenswimmer)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:54:00 GMT

I watched Barack give his speech in Berlin this morning. He was careful not to pander to his German audience, or to invite comparisons to John F. Kennedy's speech at the Brandenburg Gate, by using German phrases or greetings. Anway, it's not really necessary to speak German to the usually trilingual Berliners, who are in general educated to a level far beyond their American counterparts....

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Campaign 08: Berlin Cheers Obama's America (The Nation)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:47:10 GMT

Ari Berman In Berlin, Barack Obama summoned John F. Kennedy's vision of the New Frontier and updated it for the twenty-first century.

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Daily Podcast: First We Kill All The Lawyers (The Truth About Cars)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:23:02 GMT

But we've got to do it soon. Justin takes his New York bar exam on Monday, and our resident new car guy is no John F. Kennedy Jr. Fortunately for TTAC, the chances that Justin will hang out his shingle are about as high as a basil smoker (true story). In this job, I read hundreds of comments, dozens of articles and at least one porn site's fiction section per day day. I know when a writer...

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Obama's Berlin Speech (The New York Observer)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:44:40 GMT

Here's the prepared version of the speech Obama is giving now in Berlin, in which, like John F. Kennedy, he emphasized the theme of freedom, and like Ronald Reagan he spoke about the tearing down of the Berlin wall. Citizen Obama attempts to pick up where those presidents left off, saying that the great danger in a globalized world with the threat of international terrorism is building...

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OBAMA IN EUROPE (DUCKPOND)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:09:00 GMT

For Obama to attract the interest he has, when as yet he is not even the official party candidate, let alone the President, is surely extraordinary. Der Spiegel is following the story as it unfolds. The comparison with John Kennedy comes to mind in terms of intelligence and charisma. My sense is that Obama is eliciting the patina of Kennedy. The big difference that is immediately...

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Obama, McCain, and Israel (Emes Ve-Emunah)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:24:00 GMT

The more I see him the more I like him. But I still cannot vote for him. I like him because he is so young yet so polished. He exudes confidence. His image is unlike anything we’ve seen since the days of John F. Kennedy. He is the closest thing to JFK since… well… JFK. The smile, the youthful family, the tall good looks, the intelligence… It’s all there. Add to that that he will be the...

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Zu viel zu früh (RIGHTWINGSPARKLE)

noreply@blogger.com (RightwingSparkle) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:15:00 GMT

Obama isn't getting to speak in Germany at Brandenburg Gate to make a dramatic speech as John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan did. I guess he couldn't "speak that into being." But since symbolism is everything, Obama is doing the next best thing. He is speaking in front of " the Siegess'e (victory column) monument — or " Goldelse " (" Goldlizzie "), as Berliners affectionately dub it because...

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Kennedy, Reagan, Obama in Berlin (Daily Kos)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:57:32 GMT

When John Kennedy spoke in Germany in the midst of the Cold War, more than a million people followed his progress across Berlin. People leaned from windows and sat on the branches of trees to watch him pass. More than 400,000 were present to hear his speech in person. Kennedy's declaration of solidarity with the people of Berlin drew cheers that rattled windows on both sides of...

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Famous US speeches in Berlin (Seattle Times)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:05:30 GMT

Berlin has been fertile ground for speeches by sitting U.S. presidents. John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan are remembered for their bold declarations during the Cold War, and Bill Clinton made a simple declaration about reunified Germany.

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Obama's European Omission: Our Unbreakable Bond of Belief (Red State)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:54:25 GMT

Accepting President John F. Kennedy's challenge to "Let them come," Senator Barack Obama will descend upon Berlin – a Phoenix of Freedom – to lecture the world on the state of the Transatlantic relationship. Such a speech is ironic, for Senator Obama has yet to show any understanding of the fundamental truths that have linked the Transatlantic Alliance through time and tribulations....

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McGhee makes Kennedy plea (Skysports.com )

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:14:08 GMT

Motherwell boss Mark McGhee has pleaded with Celtic to let them sign John Kennedy on loan.

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Can Counterfactuals Be True? (Overcoming Bias)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:40:49 GMT

Followup to: Probability is Subjectively Objective The classic explanation of counterfactuals begins with this distinction: If Lee Harvey Oswald didn't shoot John F. Kennedy, then someone else did. If Lee Harvey Oswald hadn't shot John F. Kennedy, someone else would...

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Explore the Unsolved Mysteries of the Moon -- New Book Reveals Startling Details About the Origin of the Moon and Humanity's Colorful Struggle to Reach It (Red Orbit )

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:00:16 GMT

MIDDLEBURY, Vt., July 23, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- There is no denying that the Moon has been the centerpiece of humanity's dream to travel in space. In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy committed Americans to the Moon before the decade was out.

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