Category Archives: John Kennedy

Vietnam War – Khan Academy

Posted on November 30, 2018 by

“… In order to have a respectable understanding of the Vietnam War, we have to rewind all the way back to the late 1800s when France was colonizing Southeast Asia. And in particular, it colonized what is now Laos, Vietnam, … Continue reading →

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Zapruder film

Posted on November 4, 2018 by

“The Zapruder film is a silent 8mm color motion picture sequence shot by private citizen Abraham Zapruder with a Bell & Howell home-movie camera, as U.S. President John F. Kennedy‘s motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on November … Continue reading →

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Revolutionary monument to CIA’s fall in Laos

Posted on November 2, 2018 by

Air America helicopters land on top of Phou Pha Thi mountain during the US’ ‘secret war’ in Laos. “Half a century after North Vietnamese sappers scaled sheer 200-meter cliffs in the dead of night to overrun a strategic US Air … Continue reading →

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Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy

Posted on October 18, 2018 by

“For the last fifty years, artists have explored the hidden operations of power and the symbiotic suspicion between the government and its citizens that haunts Western democracies. Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy is the first major exhibition to tackle … Continue reading →

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Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Posted on October 11, 2018 by

President Kennedy signs the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. “The Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) is the abbreviated name of the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, which prohibited all test … Continue reading →

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Military–Industrial Complex

Posted on September 30, 2018 by

“The military–industrial complex (MIC) is an informal alliance between a nation’s military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy. A driving factor behind this relationship between the government and defense-minded … Continue reading →

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The Death of a President – William Manchester (1967)

Posted on September 25, 2018 by

“The Death of a President: November 20–November 25, 1963 is historian William Manchester‘s 1967 account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The book gained public attention before it was published when Kennedy’s widow Jacqueline, who had initially asked Manchester … Continue reading →

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