Kennedy family members endorse Biden in stinging rebuke to RFK Jr

Posted on April 18, 2024 by Admin

Siblings appear on stage with president at campaign event in Philadelphia and offer full-throated support of White House run

Prominent members of the Kennedy political dynasty delivered a full-throated endorsement of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign on Thursday, a pointed message that was in equal measure a stinging repudiation of their relative Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is making an independent run for the White House.

Kerry Kennedy, one of six siblings of the controversial candidate on stage at a Biden campaign event in Philadelphia, called the US president “my hero” as she celebrated a litany of his achievements she said would have pleased her father, the late former US attorney general Robert F Kennedy and late uncle and president John F Kennedy.

Former Australian deputy PM Barnaby Joyce says official JFK assassination findings didn’t ‘stack up’

Posted on November 22, 2023 by Admin

Coalition MP says he has spent ‘an awful lot of time’ researching topic, and official theory that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone is ‘implausible’

The former deputy prime minister and Coalition frontbencher Barnaby Joyce claims the official narrative of the assassination of US president John F Kennedy 60 years ago “doesn’t stack up”, saying he didn’t believe the findings of the Warren commission that only one shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, was involved and acted alone.

The member for New England said he had devoted “an awful lot of time” to researching the incident, saying his own experience using firearms led him to believe that a rifle shot from the book depository – the official conclusion of the 1964 report into Kennedy’s death – was “implausible”.

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Previously unseen 1963 film of John F Kennedy emerges in Ireland

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Admin

Footage captures then US president’s pilgrimage – five months before his death – to Wexford hometown of his great-grandfather

The grainy footage shows John F Kennedy riding in an open sedan car, waving to cheering crowds, escorted by police motorcycles.

The scene was filmed in 1963, and in some ways eerily recalls the famous footage of his killing just months later.

‘A similar challenge’: how Joe Biden echoes Kennedys on US foreign policy

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Admin

The president does not just share Irish roots with John, Robert and Ted Kennedy – he also wants to lead America in the world

It was a popular Washington sport: find the past president who best explained Donald Trump. There was a touch of Andrew Jackson’s populism, a dash of Richard Nixon’s skulduggery, a sprinkling of Ronald Reagan’s myth-making. But now all that is over, who are the closest matches to Joe Biden?

Jackie Kennedy made private White House visit eight years after JFK’s death

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Admin

Letters on display at Nixon and Kennedy libraries show how former first lady requested to ‘slip in unobtrusively’ in 1971

Fifty years ago, Jacqueline Onassis entered the White House for her first visit since her husband, John F Kennedy, was assassinated.

By 1971, it had been almost eight years since Onassis had been in her former home, but she had written to the then first lady, Pat Nixon, to request a private visit ahead of the unveiling of Kennedy’s official portrait.

Blueprint for Biden? How a struggling Irish town gambled on its links to JFK

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Admin

New Ross reinvented itself as a shrine to the Kennedy clan. Can towns linked to Biden, the most Irish American president since JFK, do the same?

After its factories died and its port withered, New Ross, a town perched by the River Barrow in south-east Ireland, decided in the 1990s to tap a unique asset: John F Kennedy.

The US president’s great-grandfather had sailed from the quays of New Ross to America during the 1840s famine, leaving behind a modest homestead that JFK twice visited, including a few months before his assassination in 1963. Like many Americans, not least the current US president-elect, Joe Biden, Kennedy was proud of his Irish connections and keen to re-emphasise the links.

Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies aged 92

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Admin

Smith, who died at home in Manhattan, played key role in Northern Ireland’s peace process in the 1990s as US envoy

Jean Kennedy Smith, the youngest sister and last surviving sibling of John F Kennedy, who as US envoy played key role in Northern Ireland’s peace process in the 1990s, has died aged 92, her daughter confirmed to the New York Times.

Search continues for Kennedy relatives lost in Chesapeake Bay

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Admin

Maeve McKean, 40, and son Gideon, eight, are missing
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend speaks of ‘profound sadness’

Divers and boats will on Sunday resume their search in the Chesapeake Bay for the bodies of the daughter and a grandson of former Maryland lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Maryland police said.

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Kennedy family members endorse Biden in stinging rebuke to RFK Jr

Former Australian deputy PM Barnaby Joyce says official JFK assassination findings didn’t ‘stack up’

Previously unseen 1963 film of John F Kennedy emerges in Ireland

‘A similar challenge’: how Joe Biden echoes Kennedys on US foreign policy

Jackie Kennedy made private White House visit eight years after JFK’s death

Blueprint for Biden? How a struggling Irish town gambled on its links to JFK

Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies aged 92

Search continues for Kennedy relatives lost in Chesapeake Bay