Once upon a time, the United States of America had a dignified President who successfully connected subjects to verbs multiple times a day. Tonight that former—I’m sorry, I need a moment after typing that word—president, Barack Obama, received the John F. Kennedy “Profile in Courage” Award in Boston. And during his…
The iconic garment worn by Marilyn Monroe when she sang breathily to John F. Kennedy in 1962 has been in the possession of a hedge fund manager named Martin Zweig since 1999. He paid $1.26 million at the Christie’s auction for it, regarding the dress as an investment and storing it in a climate-controlled room on a…
Is there a more anti-American rumor you could start about a presidential candidate???
Jackie Robinson is the title and subject of documentarian Ken Burns’ newest work, a two-parter debuting on PBS on April 11, and he says it’s as much about the contemporary Black Lives Matter Movement as it is about baseball.
In the age of designer drugs and Twitter and cell phone pictures of celebrities grinding with each other to music composed almost entirely of beeps, there's something classy about an old-school Hollywood scandal. Even Lindsay Lohan's sordid exploits can't match those of Elizabeth Taylor, whom Lohan depicts in the…
Our beloved constant companion Rick Santorum took to ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos this morning to expound offensively a number of topics, but perhaps his most shining moment was when he took very relevant political force John F. Kennedy to task for his 1960 remarks on the separation of church and state.…
The New York Post, one of the most respected names in lurid journalism, has obtained a copy of a new "tell-all" memoir by Mimi Alford, a woman who claims to have had a pretty skeezy affair with President John F. Kennedy when she was a 19-year-old summer intern at the White House. A faithful Post scribe has copied and…
Somebody emailed TMZ to point out that the picture of John F. Kennedy sunning himself while two naked ladies leap into the water may actually be from a Playboy photo shoot.
TMZ has unearthed a photograph which supposedly shows JFK living large on a boat with several naked women. According to experts, it was most likely taken during Kennedy's Mediterranean vacation in August, 1956, not long before the election. [TMZ]
Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon theorizes that Mad Men's John Deere disaster was a foreshadowing of JFK's assassination, which makes the pink dress on the secretary above all the more evocative. Marcotte's convincing argument, here. The scene in question? Here. [Pandagon]
As you may know, though Life magazine is no more, the Life magazine photo archive lives on, through a partnership with Google, and is slowly being made available online. Looking through the collection is unbelievably engrossing, but the funny thing is you never really find exactly what you think you're going to find.…
"The '60's, for those of us who can remember it — I mean, it was such a defining year. I made a list of some of the things that were going on then for the young people: The Vietnam War protests, the Kennedy assassination, Martin Luther King's murder, Civil Rights movement, women's liberation — so much happened..."…
