Hundreds of Australians wrote to Jackie Kennedy after her husband was killed. The letters paint a revealing portrait of who we were and who we wanted to be.
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The event shocked the world. But it also sparked the minds of filmmakers, authors, artists and conspiracy theorists.
JFK’s leadership style has been hugely influential, acting as a model emulated by subsequent presidents including Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.
The JFK assassination was a landmark event in TV news history.
Gothic storytelling, with its sinister atmosphere of conspiracy and other hallmarks, offers a way to reframe the Kennedy family lore.
In 1967 a Mexican reporter told the CIA he had met Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City just before the JFK assassination. New research and recently declassified intelligence pokes a hole in his story.
Rewatching the 1991 film classic JFK shows the intricate choreography of montage — and the line between fact and truth still being navigated today.
The technology isn’t the problem – conspiracy theories were around long before the internet.
The agency’s earliest ad campaigns emphasized youthful idealism, patriotism and travel opportunities. That was an easier sell than urging Americans to enlist in an anti-communist operation.
The process of coming to terms with a loss is central to these films, which are aching and inventive renderings of complex feelings and moments.
During our current bout of collective trauma, many of our coping strategies have mimicked the ways Americans responded to the Kennedy assassination.
JFK pushed consumer rights to the top of the national agenda in 1962, leading to a raft of new laws offering new protections. But without enforcement, such rights are meaningless.
A decade ago, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the latest legislative effort to close the persistent gap between how much women and men earn. Here’s why it hasn’t made much of a difference.
In the abstract, this near-mythic figure represents bravery, hard work and manliness.
Applying actual science to forensic investigations can yield substantially different results from the findings of standard methods in the field.
In the minds of many, the assassination remains a tragedy cloaked in mystery. How does this lack of closure – and the general distrust it fomented – resonate in American culture and politics today?
It’s been a good year for conspiracy theorists, so they say.
Walt Rostow argued communism was incompatible with economic development and was influential in persuading Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to get more involved in Vietnam.
Was Vietnam ‘a quagmire’ or a ‘stalemate machine’? Understanding this 50-year-old debate can shed light on why the US is currently locked into a ‘forever war.’
Hoover abused his power as FBI director to serve presidents’ interests. The reforms that followed were set up to prevent it from happening again.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Erie Campus, Penn State
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Reader in Management, University of York
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Professor of History, University of Adelaide
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Professor of American Studies, University of Nottingham
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Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of American History, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor of American History and Politics, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of American History, University of East Anglia
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WISERD Civil Society Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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PhD in Cultural Studies; teaches in School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Management, University of York
