When was McDonald's founded? Who gave the "Iron Curtain" speech? When was "Psycho" released? Who was Rosa Parks? When did Marilyn Monroe die? When did "Sesame Street" first air? What was the "Manhattan Project?" When were Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinated? ...more

July 6, 2009

"Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination," by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann (Counterpoint, $33) ...more

January 18, 2009

If you are old enough to recall 1968 you remember that by the time we reached Christmas Eve, we almost were relieved the year was staggering to an end. ...more

December 24, 2008

Caroline Kennedy is interested in the Senate seat that would open once Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of state, according to a close relative who says the powerful Kennedy clan is fully behind her rising to the office previously held by her uncle. ...more

December 5, 2008

Richard J. Bruno of New Port Richey objects to renaming New York's Triborough Bridge to honoring Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The Kennedys already have enough monuments, he says. ...more

November 29, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - A teenager was killed and at least two others are being investigated in connection with his death after a house party for high school students spilled out of control and erupted into a brawl. ...more

July 31, 2008

Even Hillary Clinton critics are feeling a bit sorry for her these days. Barack Obama has moved on, and so has the campaign for the presidency. Recall a year ago when most people thought it would be the Republicans who would still be struggling to find a candidate and Hillary would be standing tall, waiting for her next foe. Things change a lot in a year. Obama has all but won, even if he technically hasn't wrapped up the Democratic nomination. He will, and there's little hope for Clinton. Where did it all go wrong? Most people agree that Clinton got waylaid by an Illinois twister. Few times in United States history has a political dynamo entered the scene. It happened when Abraham Lincoln ran for office, and again when John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert ran for the presidency. Since then, it's been fairly quiet. ...more

May 22, 2008

Mildred Loving, 68, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, died Friday at her home in rural Milford. ...more

May 6, 2008

Sen. Edward Kennedy implored Americans on Monday "to turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion," as he placed the aura of the most prominent Democratic family around Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy. ...more

January 29, 2008

Robert Kennedy says he wasn't nervous. But then again, why should he be on edge? ...more

October 10, 2007