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Inside a glass case at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston sits a coconut shell. It was carved by hand, a distress message scratched into the husk in August 1943 after a Japanese destroyer split PT-109 in two in the Solomon Islands. That shell stayed on the Oval Office desk for all 1,036 … Read more

On October 20, 1968, on the Greek island of Scorpios, Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis in a small Greek Orthodox chapel. She was 39, five years a widow. He was 62, the richest man in the world, and by most accounts one of the most ruthless. The world watching on television believed it was witnessing … Read more

When Lyndon Baines Johnson died of a heart attack at his Texas ranch on January 22, 1973, the American public watched a carefully orchestrated display of national mourning. Flags flew at half-mast, foreign dignitaries filled Washington National Cathedral, and military escorts carried the casket back to the family cemetery in Stonewall, Texas. The eulogies painted … Read more

Judith Exner was not a showgirl who clawed her way up from nowhere. She was born in 1934 and raised in the Los Angeles area, the daughter of a wealthy architect who helped design the city's skyline. She grew up close to money and celebrity, refined and soft-spoken, with dark eyes and a quiet elegance … Read more

Mary Pinchot Meyer was a prominent American socialite and painter whose life became intertwined with some of the most influential figures of her era, most notably President John F. Kennedy. Her mysterious murder in 1964 has fueled numerous conspiracy theories and remains officially unsolved. Born on October 14, 1920, in New York City, she was … Read more