Category: John F. Kennedy

The Assassination of Shinzo Abe Is an Assault on Democracy

Commentary The world has reacted with shock to the assassination of the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe. Abe was the Prime Minister of Japan on two occasions, from 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020, when he resigned for health reasons. But he maintained his interest in politics and continued to advocate on…


Spooks, Hoods And The Hidden Elite | Documentary

This video memoir of CIA contract agent and underworld figure Chauncey Marvin Holt chronicles his career in the twilight world of bootlegging, bookmaking, gunrunning, money laundering, espionage, and assassinations. Made one week prior to Holt’s death, this recording provides his account of the evidence of a renegade covert network that has exerted an untold influence…


How Industrious Irish Immigrants Overcame Prejudice to Achieve the American Dream

When American poet Emma Lazarus wrote the iconic words that would be inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty—“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses”—she certainly had the Irish in mind. The Irish immigrants that arrived on America’s shores in the mid-19th century came with nothing more than the shirts on…


Biden Administration Releases Nearly 1,500 Secret Government Documents on JFK’s Assassination

The National Archives on Dec. 15 released almost 1,500 previously classified government documents on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, keeping in line with a deadline set by President Joe Biden in October. The 1,491 documents were released in keeping with a federal statute that calls for the government to release the records…


Biden Admin Releases Nearly 1,500 Secret Documents on JFK’s Assassination

The National Archives on Dec. 15 released almost 1,500 previously classified government documents on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, keeping in line with a deadline set by President Joe Biden in October. The 1,491 documents were released in keeping with a federal statute that calls for the government to release the records…


Biden Nominates Caroline Kennedy to Be Next US Ambassador to Australia

U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, to be the country’s next ambassador to Australia, pending Senate confirmation. Caroline Kennedy, 64, served as the U.S. ambassador to Japan between 2013 and 2017 under former president Barack Obama. She was five when her father was assassinated…


John F. Kennedy’s Nephews Urge Biden Administration to Release Final Documents Pertaining to Assassination

Two of former President John F. Kennedy’s nephews are calling on the Biden administration to release the final documents pertaining to his assassination in 1963 after the White House announced last week that it was delaying releasing them due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The records were set to be made public on Tuesday, but the White House released…