JFK+50 TOP POST #2
Knoxville, Tennessee (JFK+50) Today we continue a review of the ten most popular posts of our JFK+50 blog since we began in November 2010. This review will include updates and revisions of the original posts.
JFK HAS NO LOVE FOR STROM THURMOND ON VALENTINE'S DAY
February 14, 2011, Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) Forty-nine years ago today, Valentine's Day, February 14, 1962, President John F. Kennedy conducted a news conference in which a reporter asked this question...
"Mr. President, this being Valentine's Day, sir, do you think it might be a good idea if you would call Senator Strom Thurmond* of South Carolina down to the White House for a heart-to-heart talk about the whole disagreement over the censorship of the military speeches and what he calls your defeatist foreign policy?"
Senator Strom Thurmond
August 8, 1961
President Kennedy's response was...
"Well, I think that that meeting should be probably prepared at a lower level..."
In 1948, he was the presidential nominee of the States Rights or Dixiecrat party. ST completed his political career in the US Senate from 1956-2003.
ST. VALENTINE'S
DAY MASSACRE
February 14, 2011, Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) Eighty-two years ago today, Valentine's Day, February 14, 1929, seven members of the Bugs Moran gang of the North side were gunned down by henchmen representing Al Capone.
The assassins, using shotguns and Thompson sub-machine guns, were dressed in stolen police uniforms.
The Moran gang members were disarmed, lined up and then shot. Six of the gang died instantly while one died an hour later.
Al Capone would escape justice until May 1929 when he was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon and sentenced to prison for ten months.
DEFEAT IN
NORTH AFRICA
February 14, 2011, North Africa (JFK+50) Sixty-nine years ago today, February 14, 1942, American forces were defeated here at the Kasserine Pass by the Afrika Corps led by Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.
NORTH AFRICA
February 14, 2011, North Africa (JFK+50) Sixty-nine years ago today, February 14, 1942, American forces were defeated here at the Kasserine Pass by the Afrika Corps led by Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.
The attack came after Rommel's army had been driven out of Egypt at the Battle of El Alamein by British forces under Bernard Montgomery.
US forces were defeated attempting to defend a two mile wide gap in the Dorsal Mountains of Tunisia.
Americans suffered a thousand dead and hundreds taken prisoner.
TRAGIC VALENTINE'S
DAY FOR TR
TRAGIC VALENTINE'S
DAY FOR TR
February 14, 2011. New York City (JFK+50) Theodore Roosevelt, future Governor of New York and 26th president of the United States, lost his wife and his mother on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1884, 127 years ago today.
Mr. Roosevelt's mother, Mittie, had been suffering from typhoid fever while his wife of 4 years, Alice Lee, was suffering from a severe kidney ailment known as Bright's Disease.
Mr. Roosevelt's mother, Mittie, had been suffering from typhoid fever while his wife of 4 years, Alice Lee, was suffering from a severe kidney ailment known as Bright's Disease.
Alice Lee Roosevelt had just given birth to daughter Alice two days earlier.TR would leave his baby girl with his sister and head to the Dakota territories. Roosevelt returned to political life in 1896.
