To understand the importance of the JFK files, we need to go back to the man himself. John F. Kennedy was more than just a president—he was a symbol, a paradox, and in many ways, a myth. He was a war ...

Gillon takes a look at how World War II impacted a generation of presidents — from Eisenhower and JFK through George H.W. Bush — and, he says, “how it defined each presidency and shaped the ...

In the spirit of it all, let’s recall the story of the real PT-109, the little torpedo boat whose star-crossed fate made a war hero out of JFK, and eventually helped propel him into the White ...

World War II would be the springboard to a full time political career. Jack joined the Navy in the fall of 1941. Two years later, he became a certified American hero. As commander of motor torpedo ...

For one thing, JFK would obviously be a Boston Cream donut ... turned-soldier making donuts for his regiment in the Prussian War. But that isn't the dessert's only name, and the people who ...

The Cold War between democracy and communism was becoming more belligerent, and the United States and the Soviet Union possessed enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world many times over.

The Hill family said in a statement Monday that his service at the White House spanned the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis, the assassinations of JFK and his brother Robert F. Kennedy ...