We Knew JFK: Unheard Stories from the Kennedy Archives
Never-before-broadcast memories from JFK's confidantes recorded just after the assassination. The special is hosted by legendary journalist Robert MacNeil. Listeners will hear from JFK colleagues who...
View ArticleTimeline: JFK's Legacy to Classical Music
John F. Kennedy wasn't the first U.S. president to show an appreciation for classical music or the first to host performers at the White House: John Adams brought the Marine Band to the executive...
View ArticleHere's a tiny story about JFK calling his Dad
Ted Sorenson on JFKTed Sorenson was John F. Kennedy's speechwriter and chief legislative aide. We spoke to Sorenson in October 2010, the month he died. It was the 50th anniversary of the JFK-Nixon...
View ArticleChoir Project Captures JFK's Unspoken Speech
Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.One group in Dallas has produced a remarkable project to honor the life of President Kennedy, and some history that...
View ArticleJFK/TV
The aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy played out over 4 days, 50 years ago, on television. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, the national tragedy was a trial by fire for a...
View ArticleYou Should Follow JFK on Twitter today
The JFK library has been running a project this year where they tweet Kennedy's last year alive, 1963. The feed runs quotes from his speeches, alongside the minutae of his daily meetings and events. It...
View ArticleJFK and TV
In television's younger days, going live was extremely difficult, costly and rare. But 50 years ago, a monumental tragedy made live coverage essential, no matter the cost, whenever a president left the...
View ArticleThe Journalist and the Murderer
On the same day of John F. Kennedy’s burial, a small gathering committed the remains of Lee Harvey Oswald to the ground. Apart from the immediate family, no mourners attended, leaving the task of...
View ArticleHow JFK’s Death Helped Inspire the Kitty Genovese Myth
One of my favorite OTM interviews is one from a few years ago between Brooke and a Queens historian named Joseph De May. De May’s devoted a lot of time to the Kitty Genovese murder. Genovese was a...
View ArticleDaniel Mendelsohn on the persistence of Greek tragedies.
Daniel Mendelsohn has written extensively about how archetypes from Greek myth and tragedy are revised and revisited in contemporary culture, most recently with the anniversary of the J.F.K....
View ArticlePolar Vortex Snarls Air Travel
The blast of brutally cold air hasn't yet enveloped the New York City region -- but it's already wreaking havoc with flights.Earlier Monday, Jet Blue announced that as of 5pm, it would cancel all...
View ArticleNYC Airports on Record Pace
The five airports under the control of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have set an all-time record for passenger traffic in the first six months of this year.Newark Liberty, John F....
View ArticleCuomo Asks Public for LGA and JFK Makeover Plans
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is turning to the public for help in making over LaGuardia and JFK. He’s offering three $500,000 awards for a master plan that redesigns the two Queens airports, and...
View ArticleJFK and Newark FAQ for Flying in from the Ebola Zone
For about a week now, New York and New Jersey have been facing a barrage of criticism over the quarantine policies they announced for travelers returning from Ebola-stricken nations. Critics,...
View ArticleThe Kennedys and the Churchills
Biographer Thomas Maier explores the ways Winston Churchill influenced JFK and American policy. Maier’s book When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys moves from London to America, showing how...
View ArticleHans Zimmer's Brash 'Interstellar' Score
The ambitious new science fiction film "Interstellar" is the latest collaboration by director Christopher Nolan and composer Hans Zimmer, and Zimmer has provided a score that uses a big orchestral...
View ArticleCourt Rules Port Authority Can Kill Snowy Owls Near Airports
A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled Tuesday the Port Authority could kill most migratory birds to protect planes.The non-profit Friends of Animals had sued several United States agencies in...
View Article5 U.S. Opera Premieres Bringing American Subjects to the Stage
From the pyramids of ancient Egypt in Aida, to the imperial Chinese court in Turandot, the operatic repertoire is known for setting dramatic plots in far-flung locales. But a new crop of commissions...
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JFK Sings on the Moon
Historians and conspiracy theorists have obsessed over every scrap of evidence from the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. But we don’t usually pay attention to what the president was doing the...
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Port Authority Hopes to Unload Last Remaining Artifacts from Ground Zero
There's a hangar at JFK airport that has stored artifacts from Ground Zero since 2002. At one point, some 2,500 items were on hand, including 1,900 pieces of steel. Most have been sent to 50 states and...
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