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#1 2017-05-29 01:48:11
- woofboxer
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JFK at 100
A video short about a photo exhibition marking 100 years since John Kennedy's birth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-39926595/jfk-at-100-his-life-was-not-as-glamorous-as-you-think
'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'.
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#2 2017-05-29 18:10:57
- Berkeley_Breathes
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Re: JFK at 100
Cool stuff. I just recently discovered the online photo archive of the JFK Presidential Library, a real wealth of stuff on there... A lot of peripheral scenes and characters...
https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-1961-06-27-F.aspx
...and interesting oddities:
https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-1961-08-09-D.aspx
Was actually just in Brookline last week and saw banners up for the centennial.
"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin
#3 2017-05-29 23:30:30
- captainpreppy
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Re: JFK at 100
My father-in-law was a close friend of JFK at Harvard. I once asked him if his fabled "charisma" was evident at that time. He replied, "No more than you or I would have had at the same age. He was just a nice guy with a rich father." (Notwithstanding that comment, I suspect JFK always had more charisma than I was ever endowed with.)
In one of the last conversations I had with my father-in-law, he remarked that he never would have dreamed that JFK would end up as president.