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Controversy still swirls around rifle used in JFK assassination

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 4:47pm

ABILENE, Texas -- Wayne Dorothy was reading his Sunday Abilene Reporter-News when he almost fell out of his chair, he said.

On Page 8A, in black and white, was a photo of part of a letter Gene Boone wrote to Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker on Nov. 22, 1963.

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Stephen King thrills as he time travels to save JFK

Rene Rodriguez McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Monday, November 14, 2011 - 12:29pm

"11/22/63." By Stephen King; Scribner (849 pages, $35)

222The past is also a dangerous, fickle place -- and woe to anyone who dares alter it. That's the mantra coursing through "11/22/63," Stephen King's mammoth, generous and thrilling novel about a man who travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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(Associated Press file photo) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., smiles as he sits with daughter Kara Kennedy at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in May 2008. Kara, the oldest child of the senator who died Aug. 25, 2009, died Friday at a Washington-area health club, says brother Patrick Kennedy. The 51-year-old had battled lung cancer, which left her weakened, her brother says. “Her heart gave out. She’s with Dad.”

Kara Kennedy, daughter of Ted Kennedy, dies at 51 after workout

Andrew Miga, Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 6:12pm

WASHINGTON — Kara Kennedy became teary-eyed when she accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of her ailing father at a 2009 White House ceremony, but she also managed to smile as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s life was honored. After the senator died two weeks later following a battle with brain cancer, his only daughter read a psalm at his funeral Mass in Boston. It was about peace and justice and caring for poor children.

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Book: Kennedy scorned idea of Johnson as president

Beth Fouhy The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 12:05pm

NEW YORK -- President John F. Kennedy openly scorned the notion of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeding him in office, according to a book of newly released interviews with his widow, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

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Christina Haag's memoir wistful of love affair with JFK Jr.

Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 3:02am

H"COME TO THE EDGE." By Christina Haag. Spiegel & Grau. $25.

The most telling moment in "Come to the Edge," Christina Haag's memoir of her love affair with John F. Kennedy Jr., comes after his death in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard.

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On JFK 50th, Kennedy family gathers in Washington

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 12:59pm

WASHINGTON -- Fifty years ago Thursday, President John F. Kennedy told the world that "the torch had been passed to a new generation of Americans" whom he challenged to "ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."

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