SARGE SHRIVER, JFK's PEACE CORPS DIECTOR, DIED 3 YEARS AGO
Bethesda, Maryland (JFK+50) Three years ago today, January 18, 2011, R. Sargent Shriver, JFK's brother-in-law and director of the Peace Corps, died here in Bethesda.
Shriver, 95 years old , was a victim of Alzheimer's disease.
Sarge was the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, who died in 2009.
Mr. Shriver was also the father of former NBC reporter Maria Shriver.
Sarge Shriver & JFK at the White House
NSAM#216 SIGNED BY BUNDY
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) Fifty-one years ago today, January 18, 1963, National Security Action Memorandum #216 was signed by President John F. Kennedy's national security adviser, McGeorge Bundy, here at the White House in the Nation's Capital.
NSAM #216 states...
"The President requests a study be made by the Department of State, Defense and CIA of the arguments for and against:
1. Disclosure to the Soviets of our satellite reconnaissance capability.
2. The maintenance in the hands of the American Ambassador in Moscow of suitable materials for such disclosure in the event of a crisis situation in which there was ....a threat of nuclear war."
JFK and McGeorge Bundy
It is likely, having come so close to nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, President Kennedy was considering actions which might prevent such a scenario in the future.
COOK DISCOVERS HAWAII
236 years ago today, January 18, 1788, English explorer Captain James Cook became the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands.
Two days later Cook landed on the island of Kauai and named the group, "The Sandwich Islands," after sponsor, John Montague, the Earl of Sandwich.
Two days later Cook landed on the island of Kauai and named the group, "The Sandwich Islands," after sponsor, John Montague, the Earl of Sandwich.
Captain James Cook
When she asked why he wanted to know, he said that was where Billy Whiskers had traveled.
Billy Whiskers Children's Book
