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John F. Kennedy

People wait for US President Donald Trump's name to be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
June 13, 2026, 2:08 pm
Workers begin removing Trump’s name from Kennedy Center, hours after court deadline
Dozens gather in plaza in front of cultural center taking pictures and cheering occasionally as they break into chants of ‘take it down’
By AP
Andrew Ginsburg celebrates after winning a JFK Jr. look-alike competition in the West Village. (Courtesy Andrew Ginsberg via JTA)
March 21, 2026, 2:08 am
Jewish dad and kids’ book author wins JFK Jr. lookalike contest
Andrew Ginsburg has done comedy, body building and writing. Now the personal trainer from Connecticut can add doppelganger to his repertoire
By Grace Gilson
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, addresses an audience during the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, October 29, 2023. (AP/Steven Senne, File)
December 31, 2025, 4:43 am
Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s granddaughter, dies at 35 from rare form of leukemia
Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and author, revealed in November that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia after the birth of her second child in 2024
By Marc Levy and Sarah Brumfield
New signage at The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, is unveiled on the Kennedy Center, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
December 20, 2025, 8:14 am
Kennedy Center gets new signage with Trump’s name before JFK’s after board vote
Move by Trump-picked trustees raises legal questions, as federal law bars adding names to the Kennedy Center, which some scholars say only US Congress can rename
By AP
Jack Schlossberg arrives at the JFK Library, on May 4, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
November 12, 2025, 8:52 am
JFK’s Jewish grandson set to announce bid for Congress
Jack Schlossberg would seek to fill seat of retiring New York Democrat Jerrold Nadler in next year’s midterm elections
By Reuters and ToI Staff
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 7, 2025. (Oliver Contreras/AFP)
June 25, 2025, 1:52 am
GOP firebrand claims JFK’s assassination linked to his opposition to Israeli atomic program
Marjorie Taylor Greene also tells Jewish Fox News host who backed Iran strikes to meet ‘my friend Jesus,’ questions whether Trump’s life now in danger after he ‘rebuked Israel’
By Ben Sales
US President John F. Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot, in Dallas, November 22, 1963. Riding with President Kennedy are first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, second from left, and her husband, Texas Gov. John Connally, far left. (Jim Altgens/AP)
March 19, 2025, 10:39 am
Trump administration makes public thousands of files related to JFK assassination
About 2,200 files of over 63,000 pages posted to US National Archives but no narrative-changing revelations expected; some documents deal with CIA ploys against Cuba’s Castro
By Agencies
Then-Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, left, walks with US president John F. Kennedy at the residence of the US ambassador in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 1961. (AP Photo, File)
March 4, 2025, 2:32 pm
Journalist who had Khrushchev’s ear as nuclear war loomed says Putin wouldn’t have caved to US
When 94-year-old veteran foreign correspondent Marvin Kalb speaks, world leaders should pay attention. His new memoir, ‘A Different Russia,’ serves as both warning and plea
By Mordechai I. Twersky
US President Donald Trump holds a signed an executive order regarding the declassification and release of records relating to the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy, senator Robert F. Kennedy and reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Oval Office of the White House, January 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
January 24, 2025, 5:52 am
Trump orders release of classified documents on assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK
US president vows ‘everything will be revealed;’ gives pen he signed executive order with to RFK Jr., whose dad was killed in 1968 by Palestinian angered by his support for Israel
By AP
In this November 23, 1963, file photo, surrounded by detectives, Lee Harvey Oswald talks to the media as he is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. (AP)
August 2, 2023, 3:07 am
New JFK documents reveal assassin’s CIA monitor was Jewish spy Reuben Efron
Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, who later lived in Jerusalem, screened the mail of US president’s killer before the assassination, newly released files show
By Ron Kampeas
Newton Minow delivers a speech at the Gannett Foundation Media Center at the Columbia School of Journalism on the 30th anniversary of the speech in which he criticized television as a vast wasteland, May 9, 1991, New York. (Susan Ragan/AP)
May 7, 2023, 8:14 am
Newton Minow, ex-FCC chief and tireless champion for quality television, dies at 97
Jewish official, who famously dubbed TV a ‘wasteland,’ played key role in expanding range of broadcast channels, tech, content in US; early Obama supporter, gave him summer job
By AP and ToI Staff
Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, who is being escorted by Dallas police detective Jim Leavelle (left), November 24, 1963 (Robert H. Jackson / Wikipedia)
April 12, 2023, 9:19 pm
Hillel Silverman, Dallas rabbi whose congregant killed JFK’s assassin, dies at 99
Silverman was spiritual leader of Shearith Israel from 1954 to 1964; Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner with links to the Mafia who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, was one of his congregants
By Steve North
This file photo taken on October 24, 1962 shows US President John F. Kennedy signing the order of naval blockade of Cuba at the White House in Washington, DC, during the Cuban missiles crisis. (AFP)
December 16, 2022, 4:50 am
Newly released Kennedy assassination files outline shooter’s moves before killing
Biden administration releases trove of documents, but holds thousands back for security; new information includes KGB officer saying assassin was monitored but not hired to kill
By Chris Lefkow
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pauses as he delivers his speech, during a protest against the COVID-19 vaccination green pass in Milan, Italy, Nov. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
December 16, 2021, 1:47 pm
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. built a dangerous anti-vaxx juggernaut amid COVID-19
Ex-US president’s nephew rakes in funding and followers by peddling dangerous and false narrative about vaccines; experts say operation targets Black community
By Michelle R. Smith
Mort Sahl, comedian, during taping at WRC studios in Washington December 6, 1978. (AP)
October 27, 2021, 5:26 am
Mort Sahl, satirist who brought politics to comedy, dies at 94
Credited as the first to give stand-up acts an iconoclastic edge, Sahl skewered presidents from Eisenhower to Trump, paving the way for comics like George Carlin and Jon Stewart
By AP
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