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May 31
Michael Beschloss delivers 2026 Commencement Address at University of Pennsylvania--video link:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ISH15d…
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JFK gave best speech of his life, this week 1963, at American University:
“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. . . .We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
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Tomorrow is an important American event that looms in our Presidential history--Flag Day:
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Jun 13
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was named by Act of Congress, January 1964, signed by President Johnson:
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Jun 12
At funeral after Medgar Evers assassination, widow Myrlie consoles son Darrell, this week 1963:
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Jun 12
Five months before his own assassination, JFK poses with family of Mississippi NAACP's Medgar Evers, who was assassinated today 1963, hours after Kennedy gave his civil rights speech:
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Jun 12
JFK to nation on civil rights, tonight 1963: "We are confronted primarily with a moral issue":
Brief video link: youtube.com/shorts/jyBRegwmy…
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Jun 11
Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, was shot to death outside his home, hours after the groundbreaking civil rights speech JFK gave from the Oval Office tonight 1963:
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Jun 11
Today 1963, two courageous and idealistic young Black Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, entered the University of Alabama after JFK had federalized the Alabama National Guard and Governor George Wallace had tried to bar their arrival:
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Jun 10
Under stress from growing Watergate scandal, President Nixon forcibly shoves his press secretary, Ron Ziegler, in front of cameramen and photographers, New Orleans, 1973:
Brief video clip: youtube.com/watch?v=iBIlIYrp…
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Jun 10
Statue of Liberty photographed as it was dedicated a hundred and forty years ago this fall:
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Jun 10
Photographed from Senator Robert Kennedy's funeral train, this week 1968: #Fusco
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Michael Beschloss retweeted
Jun 9
One of the most famous sentences in American history was inspired by a department store ad. Maybe. Or perhaps it was taken from a writer’s journal. No one knows for sure. And curiously enough, it did not get all that much attention at first. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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Americans honor Senator Robert Kennedy in Maryland, as seen from his moving funeral train, today 1968: #Fusco
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