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Adrienne Kennedy
Adrienne Kennedy 1931— Playwright, writer At a Glance Read more |
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy
Joseph Patrick Kennedy 1888-1969, U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937-40), b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1912, father of John F. Kennedy , Robert F. Kennedy , and Edward M. Kennedy (see separate entries). He engaged in banking, shipbuilding, investment banking, and motion-picture... Read more |
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Edward M. Kennedy
E DWARDK ENNEDY Born: February 22, 1932 Brookline, Massachusetts American senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy, brother of President John F. Kennedy (1917– 1963) and Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), entered the U.S. Senate at age thirty and has steadily... Read more |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) served in both houses of Congress before becoming the thirty-fifth president of the United States. His assassination shocked the world. John F. Kennedy once summed up his time as "very dangerous, untidy." He was the child of two world... Read more |
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Robert Kennedy
R OBERTK ENNEDY Born: November 20, 1925 Brookline, Massachusetts Died: June 6, 1968 Los Angeles, California American statesman, senator, and attorney general Robert Kennedy was a U.S. senator and the attorney general in the ... Read more |
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Operation Mongoose
Operation Mongoose ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER In November 1961, following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, President John F. Kennedy and his advisors launched Operation Mongoose, a covert operation intended to disrupt Cuban government and economic infrastructure. The... Read more |
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Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy 1925-68, American politician, U.S. Attorney General (1961-64), b. Brookline, Mass., younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and son of Joseph P. Kennedy . A graduate of Harvard (1948) and the Univ. of Virginia law school (1951), Bobby Kennedy managed his brother... Read more |
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Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy (Edward Moore Kennedy), 1932-, U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1962-), brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and youngest son of Joseph P. Kennedy , b. Boston, Mass. He served (1961-62) as an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts before being elected (1962) as a... Read more |
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Charles Rann Kennedy
Charles Rann Kennedy 1871-1950, Anglo-American dramatist, b. Derby, England. He became a U.S. citizen in 1917. His plays, concerned with moral problems, include The Servant in the House (1908) and The Terrible Meek (1912).... Read more |
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New Frontier
NEW FRONTIER NEW FRONTIER. The term "New Frontier" refers to the economic and social programs of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. The concept of a "New Frontier" epitomized Kennedy's commitment to renewal and change. He pitched his 1960 presidential campaign as a crusade to bring in a "new... Read more |
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