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John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. Events that occurred during his term in office were The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was assassinated in 1963. Many believe there is a large amount of conspiracy still surrounding this event.
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The assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) in Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunfire while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade. The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963-1964, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) of 1976-1979, and other government investigations concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. This conclusion was initially met with support among the American public, but polls conducted from 1966 on show as many as 80% of the American public hold beliefs contrary to these findings.[1][2] The assassination is still the subject of widespread debate and has spawned numerous conspiracy theories and alternative scenarios. In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) found both the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. The HSCA also concluded that there were at least four shots fired and that it was probable that a conspiracy existed. Later studies, including one by the National Academy of Sciences,[3] have called into question the accuracy of the evidence used by the HSCA to support its finding of four shots
What is meant by President Kennedy's two caskets?
The expression means that for the late President Kennedy two different caskets were used because the first one had been damaged.
After Kennedy's death, the Dallas funeral home of Vernon O'Neal had provided their top of the line model, a hermetically sealing solid bronze casket "Handley" casket, manufactured by the (former) Elgin Metal Casket Company of Elgin, Ill., which had already produced the bronze casket of President Coolidge. The "Handley" was a double lid sealer casket (yet without an inner glass lid) weighing more than 300 lbs empty. The exterior had a "Britannia" (that is: partially brushed) finish with a transparent amber (reddish) tint. The interior consisted of an adjustable inner mattress and a white velvet and satin lining. O'Neal requested a sales price of $ 3.995 (estimated wholesale price at that time around 1.000) from the US Government, but was forced to lower the price later by 500. While loading and unloading the casket, the secret service people damaged some of the swing bar handles, which made it necessary to replaced the casket. The original Elgin casket eventually was dumped in the Atlantic ocean in 1966 by the Air Force in order to prevent it from becoming an object of morbid curiosity, especially after O'Neal had made the requested to buy it back for showing it in his funeral home.
The damaged Elgin bronze casket was replaced by a mahogany casket provided by the prestigious Joseph Gawler's Sons funeral home of Washington, DC. The design chosen was a "Seven Ten" (710) made by the nation's leading hardwood casket manufacturer, the (former) Marsellus Casket Company of Syracuse, NY., which already had provided the mahogany casket of President Truman. Although the "Seven Ten" had a plain and unpretentious looking design of timeless simplicity, it was nevertheless an expensive luxury casket from solid 1-1/4" and 2-1/2" planks of up to 500 year old African mahogany trees - a fact which did not yet evoke any noticeable environmental criticism at that time. The understatement design had heavily rounded corners and all wooden swing bar handles with bronze tips and lugs. The Marsellus company had acquired the reputation of following extraordinarily high manufacturing standards in the production of its hardwood caskets, involving a high percentage of hand crafting by their expert craftsmen. The company accepted for example only 20% of the wood as meeting the "select grade" standard for ribbon grained mahogany. All casket parts were assembled with copper nails and brass screws. Marsellus also claimed that the amount of mahogany used in each 710 model was about 140 board feet - an equivalent of almost 3.700 square feet of veneer, enough for some 200 dining tables. The finishing process took about three weeks and consisted of a dozen different operations which included the application of half a dozen layers of sealer and lacquer as well as half a day of hand rubbing. President Kennedy's non ornamental, yet highly elegant and stylish mahogany casket had a brownish wooden stain and a semi gloss finish; inside, it featured a shirred champagne interior of non crushing premium velvet and a moisture absorbing bed of pure white spun rayon. Gawler's Sons charged $ 2460 for the casket, which had a wholesale price of about 500 at that time, respectively an estimated 800 including a solid bronze inner liner. The high price of Kennedy's casket as well as the less common "hinged cap" design of its lid (of which only the uppermost part of the - divided - top was opened for viewing) seem to indicate that, probably, Kennedy's casket had been equipped with such a hermetically sealing inner bronze liner including a full length oval glass top, raising the weight of the (empty) casket from 260 to about 500 lbs. Due to the fact that the Marsellus # 710 model was also chosen for the burial of President Ford and Pres. Nixon, and probably for Pres. Hoover as well, this design has become almost synonymous with "the presidential casket" in the US.
It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and its meaning is helmet head or ugly head; one who had an ugly head . My name is Kennedy and I was told the my name was Irish but not Gaelic. Just do you and everyone will follow a long
What best describes President Kennedy's foreign policy program with regard to the Soviet Union?
President Kennedy developed a program called "flexible response" to choose a course of action appropriate to a situation.
What war did JFK serve in and how did he feel about it?
John K. Kennedy was a PT boat commander in the south pacific in WWII. A PT boat was a wooden patrol boat with machine guns and torpedoes. It was only 55 feet long and had three gasoline powered Rolls Royce engines and capable of speeds about 55 miles per hour. His boat was once sunk and he spent many days on a deserted island with the survivors of his crew. They were finally rescued when he sent a message carried by local natives that he carved into a coconut.
Which is the most valuable Kennedy half dollar?
Because Kennedy halves are modern coins with no significant varieties, there are very few spectacular values. Among circulated ones, 1964 issues are valuable only because they contain about $5 worth of silver. 1965-69 ones are only 40% silver and anything from 1971 onward would be made of copper-nickel.
If you're lucky enough to have what's called "deep cameo" proof in its original package, you might have a coin worth several hundred dollars depending on its date, but these don't generally turn up in ordinary sales.
Why do you think Kennedy tried to link Nixon to Eisenhower?
Because Nixon had been Eisenhower's Vice President.
What was the magic bullet and what did it do?
The term "magic bullet" refers to the bullet found on the gurney that JFK was on when he died. It was next to his head. It just seemed to appear and for the conspiracy types it proves there was another gunman other than Oswald.
How old was JFK as a president?
John F. Kennedy was inaugurated at age 43, the youngest elected president. He was 46 when he was assassinated.
Why did Kennedy administration step up the defense program?
The Kennedy administration stepped up the defense program because of the escalating war in Vietnam. The Cuban Missile Crisis was another reason the defense program was beefed up.
He was a diamond broker and she met him some 20 years before they started dating.
When did Cory Kennedy turn pro?
Cory Kennedy isn't pro yet. He is still am for most of his sponsors except for Nike sb, which he is flow.
