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When President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the nation looked to one man to deliver justice. That man was his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the president's most trusted confidant and one of the most powerful law enforcement officials in American history. Bobby Kennedy had built the Justice … Read more

The 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon was one of the closest in modern American history. It was not decided until the early morning hours of November 9, more than six hours after the polls closed, when NBC finally called Illinois for Kennedy. That state, and with it the presidency, was … Read more

On November 22, 1963, at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, the First Lady of the United States stood in a corridor still wearing her raspberry pink Chanel suit. It was soaked in her husband's blood. His brain matter was still on her stockings, her gloves, and her hands. Lady Bird Johnson, the new Second Lady, … Read more

On August 5, 1962, at 4:25 a.m., the Los Angeles Police Department received a phone call. Marilyn Monroe was dead. The caller was Dr. Ralph Greenson, her psychiatrist. He said she had been found in her bedroom at her Brentwood home, with empty pill bottles on the nightstand. The coroner would rule it a probable … Read more

On July 30, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson made an announcement that stunned Washington. No member of his cabinet would be considered for the vice presidency. Not Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Not Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Not Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman. Everyone understood the truth. There was only one target, one name Johnson … Read more

In September 1969, at his ranch in Stonewall, Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson sat down with Walter Cronkite, then the most trusted figure in American news. Five years had passed since the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President Kennedy. Johnson had created that commission, appointed its members, and endorsed its … Read more

On November 22, 1963, at 12:38 p.m., the presidential limousine arrived at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. The car was a 1961 Lincoln Continental, code name SS 100X. Inside sat President John F. Kennedy, mortally wounded. Governor John Connally had also been shot. Jackie Kennedy was still cradling her husband's shattered head. The backseat was covered … Read more

On the morning of October 19, 1962, President John F. Kennedy sat in the Cabinet Room of the White House and watched five men in uniform walk through the door. The Joint Chiefs of Staff had requested the meeting, and Kennedy knew what they wanted. They wanted war. Four days earlier, a U-2 spy plane … Read more

When news of President John F. Kennedy's assassination reached Moscow on November 22, 1963, the Soviet leadership did not celebrate. They panicked. Three gunshots had rung out in Dallas at 12:30 p.m. Within minutes, the news was racing across the Atlantic. But the fear in the Kremlin was not born of guilt. It was born … Read more

At 10:30 a.m. on March 22, 1962, J. Edgar Hoover walked into the Oval Office carrying a thin manila folder. Inside was information about President John F. Kennedy's relationship with a woman named Judith Campbell Exner. Exner was also sleeping with Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana, the same mobster the FBI was supposed to be … Read more