![“A cheering crowd, estimated by police at more than a quarter of a million, fills the area beneath the podium at West Berlin’s City Hall, where U.S. President John F. Kennedy stands. His address to the City Hall crowd was one of the highlights of his career. (AP Photo)”
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“A cheering crowd, estimated by police at more than a quarter of a million, fills the area beneath the podium at West Berlin’s City Hall, where U.S. President John F. Kennedy stands. His address to the City Hall crowd was one of the highlights of his career. (AP Photo)”
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Photo Essay: 50 Years Ago, The World in 1963
Top: Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. waves to supporters on the Mall in Washington, D.C. during the “March on Washington,” on August 28, 1963. King said the march was “the greatest demonstration of freedom in the history of the United States.”
Center-left: Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government, on June 11, 1963. (Credit: AP/Malcolm Browne)
Center-right: Firefighters turn their hoses full force on civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 15, 1963. (Credit: AP/Bill Hudson)
Bottom: Three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s casket in Washington on November 25, 1963. Widow Jacqueline Kennedy, center, and daughter Caroline Kennedy are accompanied by the late president’s brothers Senator Edward Kennedy, left, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. (Credit: AP)
These are pretty incredible.
I still can’t believe it’s been 50 years. It just feels so recent . . .
Nobody talked like Cary Grant. President Kennedy used to call him up just to hear him talk. Bobby, his brother the attorney general, would be on the extension. They both got a huge kick out of hearing Cary talk. —Peter Bogdanovich
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john-f-kennedy-and-his-family:
jacqueline-the-american-queen:
jacqueline-the-american-queen:
I can’t even ughhugfjgsv!
There’s a gif… of a young John Kennedy… on my dash… smiling… Swooning doesn’t even begin to describe it.
You may all feel free to reblog this… you know… whenever… you think I need a pick me up… I don’t mind if it appears multiple times on my dash on multiple days… Just throwing that out there… Ooooh, maybe for my birthday? Yeah… my birthday… (so many months away, though… )
My birthday is march 7 I would love to see this all day that day
I love this
AND IIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOOOOOOOU
Oh dear. I MUST RESIST.
(Source: scullandoars)
life:
Not originally published in LIFE. Jackie Kennedy sets out through an evening snowstorm for the Inaugural Gala, January 1961.
See more photos from JFK’s inauguration here.
(via jfklibrary)
Members of Women Strike for Peace carry placards outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City, where the U.N. Security Council considers the Cuban missile crisis in a special meeting, on October 23, 1962.
(Source: The Atlantic)
Female supporters of Kennedy wait for the candidate to arrive at a campaign appearance.
(via retrocampaigns)
50 Years Ago, The Cuban Missile Crisis Begins
John F. Kennedy gives a speech while standing on a kitchen chair in Logan County, West Virginia, 1960.
By Hank Walker
(Source: TIME)
On This Date 13 Years ago…
They vanished in the dark of night, and by the next day, an armada had gathered just off Martha’s Vineyard, hoping for a rescue. Instead, the waves brought reason to grieve.
Newsweek July 26, 1999
The Kennedy clan and their remarkable ability to die tragically - why America loves ‘em.
Joe Jr. died in WWII, Kick died in a plane wreck in France with an assumed and already married lover, Jack and Bobby in assassinations, Jack Jr. and his plane crash, and a Mary Kennedy hanged herself earlier this year.
They become part of the public eye, America loves them, they die, and America REALLY loves them. Quite the cycle.
Donny and Marie ‘The Top Secret Project’ - 1977 Little Golden Book
Day One at the coffee shop was very good. I’m definitely going to enjoy working here!
haha jerk
