For half a century, it was a quadrennial display of the performing arts, a time capsule of the nation’s pop culture, a snapshot too of the varied entertainment tastes of the President about to assume office. It was called the… Read More ›
The Kennedys 
Christmas at the White House: First Families & Holiday Charities, Part 3
Living in the White House affords even Presidential families who neither earned nor inherited great wealth a privileged lifestyle and while many have privately and publicly supported various charitable organizations or risen to the occasion in the time of a… Read More ›
The Grandsons of Bobby, Jack & Jackie Kennedy: A New Political Generation
Yesterday, the election of 32-year old Joe Kennedy to the U.S. House of Representatives marked the first of a fourth generation of the most famous political family for half a century to a position of public service. Born in October… Read More ›
White House Halloweens: Jackie Kennedy, FDR, Reagan, Hillary & More in Costume
(Photo Gallery of Presidential Families in Costumes follow below this essay) Halloween has been celebrated in the United States at parties for well over a century, but not until the 1950s did it go entirely mainstream with mass-produced costumes for… Read More ›
Sinatra at Jack’s Back: The John F. Kennedy 1960 Campaign Song
A Hoboken, New Jersey native and the son of Italian immigrants, Frank Sinatra was the Elvis, the Bieber, the Jagger, of the teenage generation during World War II. After a few years of bobbysoxer besiege, however, “Old Blue Eyes” Â slid… Read More ›
Keep Grandma Upstairs: Jackie Kennedy’s Family Secrets & The Lie Her Mother Told
This article is part of an ongoing series about the racial, religious and ethnic identity of First Ladies, beginning with the recent discoveries about First Lady Michelle Obama and her ancestry from both an Irish immigrant family of Georgia slave-owners… Read More ›
JFK with the World’s Hottest Actresses and….Hazel the Maid?!
President John F. Kennedy is often perceived as the first sort of “Mr. Hollywood,” among the American Presidents when, in truth, most of his predecessors also maintained friendships with powerful entertainment industry figures both behind and in front of… Read More ›
Jackie O’loha: When Jacqueline Kennedy Lived in Hawaii for Seven Weeks
She was forever associated with New York, Washington, Boston and Paris and she knew London, Newport, Rome, Athens and Palm Beach like the back of her hand. On this day in 1966, however, the world’s most famous woman, President Kennedy‘s… Read More ›
Other Photos & Stars from Marilyn Monroe’s Happy Birthday Night to JFK & His Reaction
Fifty years ago tonight, more happened than just Marilyn Monroe singing her famous sultry rendition of Happy Birthday to President Kennedy. With the need to reduce so much news and history to a single snapshot image or quotable line, the… Read More ›
The Most Shocking Truth About JFK & Marilyn Monroe?
Context is everything. Documentation, even better. It may be devastating to the American people to suggest that a romanticized story they have long cherished and held dear about a beloved President might be, in fact, utterly false or at least… Read More ›
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