#jfk gravesite

[kennedycore]

President Kennedy's official White House Portrait (left), and one of the reference photographs used to paint it (right).

When Jacqueline Kennedy commissioned artist Aaron Shikler to paint the official portraits of herself and President Kennedy in 1970, he faced the issue of having to paint JFK posthumously.

According to Shikler, Jackie said, “I don’t want him to look the way everybody else makes him look, with the bags under his eyes and that penetrating gaze. I’m tired of that image.”

Shikler ultimately found inspiration from a photo of Ted Kennedy with his arms crossed and head bowed, kneeling at JFK’s gravesite.

“I painted him with his head bowed, not because I think of him as a martyr, but because I wanted to show him as a president who was a thinker,” said Shikler.

After presenting a series of sketches to Jackie, she would end up choosing this image of her late husband, rather than the other sketches.

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

JACQUELINE KENNEDY IN MOURNING

John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Jacqueline planned her husband’s state funeral and requested a closed casket. His funeral was held in Washington DC, and was buried at a nearby cemetery. Jacqueline led the procession on foot and lit the eternal flame at his gravesite. Jacqueline had little interest in the commission into his death, she said, ‘it would not bring my husband back’. After his death she stepped out of public life.

#jacquelinekennedy#jacquelinekennedyonassis#johnfkennedy#jfk

[gingermcl]

An eternal flame is a flame, lamp or torch that burns for an indefinite time. Most eternal flames are ignited and tended intentionally, but some are natural phenomena caused by natural gas leaks, peat fires and coal seam fires. There are 9 natural eternal flames. some of which have burned for hundreds or thousands of years. It’s certainly interesting that a supply of “natural gas” causes an endless fire. there are also around 60 peace flames & beacons around the world. The JFK gravesite is the one that first comes to mind for me.

I think of this world being a waterworld since it’s 71% water. A waterworld with eternal flames from “natural gas” burning. Could be interpreted as a lake of fire. We also could be surrounded by ice and ice can also burn. I really feel as if the heaven and hell programming has made us fear living and prevented us from ascending out of this realm as we are supposed to.

Perhaps there is an Eternal flame hidden in every living thing. Also called the Divine spark, the Fire within, the spirit. I resonate with the term Fire creation spirits. The “Holy Spirit” could be a fire. I think of Holy Ghost as one whose fire has been extinguished. There are surely plenty of songs about fires. I think of the Bangles eternal flame and Katy Perry’s firework which I think refers to us being stars or fires in the sky.

If we were a fire or a spark - being in a lake of fire may not be unpleasant. The hell prgramming could have us fearing our natural essence which could orveent us from getting out of here. A bunch of humans together create body heat. Maybe the heat comes from our fire within. We live in a waterworld and sparks together make a fire. Heaven and hell are right here - it depends on what frequency one’s thought patterns you live in which one you find. I always found the heaven and hell programming daunting. I don’t want to reside in either one for eternity. Eternity would get boring after a while even if you could create everything - it would rapidly get boring in one place. Agreeing to go to heaven or hell is agreeing to being in a prison or an energy harvesting system. I’d rather bypass both places and see what else is out there, after getting out of here.

[teejay82]

Day 4 of #springbreak2023 #vacay: Washington, DC We slept in until 8 am today! 😴 After a late breakfast, we visited Arlington National Cemetery. We saw JFK’s gravesite and watched the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Later, we visited a few of the monuments: the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the World War II Memorial, and the Korean War Veterans Memorial. After an early dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe, we walked home last Ford’s Theatre, where Lincoln was shot. We came home, and I took a nap…at 6:30 pm. 😆 I hit 12000+ steps today! It’s been a while since I’ve even gotten 10,000… 😂 #ohheyvacay https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp3rHKVsBw3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gracie-bird]

Princess Grace of Monaco at JFK's gravesite at Arlington December 3, 1963.

The funeral of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, took place in Washington, D.C., during the three days that followed his assassination on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

(From eBay).

[deadnburied13]

PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY

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58 years ago

November 2, 1963: Death of the President

Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.

Kennedy's funeral was set for Monday, November 25,

Above Photo: Jackie Kennedy and the children of JFK, John F Kennedy JR (who would perish in a plane crash in which he was the pilot along with his wife Carolyn Bassett and his sister in law, Carolyn's sister, Lauren Bassett)

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John F Kennedy Jr

(who would perish in a plane crash in which he was the pilot along with his wife Carolyn Bassett (left) and his sister-in-law, Carolyn's sister, Lauren Bassett (right) Above Photo

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Left to Right

Robert Kennedy, (brother)

Jackie Kennedy (wife)

Right Ted Kennedy ( brother)

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THIER DEATHS...

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ROBERT KENNEDY

(November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK or by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was, like his brothers John and Edward, a prominent member of the Democratic Party and has come to be viewed by some historians as an icon of modern American liberalism.

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EDWARD MOORE KENNEDY

Ted Kennedy

(February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)

was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the prominent political Kennedy family, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died. He is ranked fifth in United States history for length of continuous service as a senator. Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S. attorney general and U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy. He was the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.

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JACQUELINE LEE KENNEDY ONASSIS

(July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994)

was an American socialite, writer, photographer, and book editor who served as first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of President John F. Kennedy. A popular first lady, she endeared the American public with her fashion sense, devotion to her family, and dedication to the historic preservation of the White House. During her lifetime, she was regarded as an international fashion icon.

Jackie was diagnosed with cancer in January 1993 and On May 19, 1994 at 10:15 p.m., she died in her sleep in her Manhattan apartment at age 64, with her children by her side. In the morning, her son John F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his mother's death to the press, stating that she had been "surrounded by her friends and her family and her books, and the people and the things that she loved". He added that "she did it in her very own way, and on her own terms, and we all feel lucky for that."

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Jackie lit the flame 🔥 herself, with a gas-soaked rag on a stick, at the conclusion of JFK's burial.

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Jackie Kennedy and Robert Kennedy walk away from the Gravesite of JFK after lighting the flame 🔥

John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame

Established November 25, 1963 (temporary)

March 15, 1967 (permanent)

Governing body U.S. Department of the Army

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The casket of JFK waiting to be lowered into the ground

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🔥Legend says ever since his death the flame has been burning brightly, except for two instances.

🔥The first took place on December 10, 1963. According to Mental Floss, “a group of Catholic schoolchildren were visiting Kennedy's memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

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This permanent site replaced a temporary grave and eternal flame used at the time of Kennedy's state funeral on November 25, 1963, three days after his assassination. The site was designed by architect John Carl Warnecke, a long-time friend of Kennedy.

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[ryanhamiltonwalsh]

I’d like to tell you a few things about my Grandad, Bernard Hamilton, who checked out of Hotel Earth at the age of 99 this past Thursday morning.

He was very funny. It was a deadpan brand of humor, never pandering for laughter. He’d just keep a straight face until you realized you’d just been told a joke. He taught me to play chess. He stopped playing with me once I started to beat him. He taught me how to hitchhike. He did this as a way of calling me and my sister’s bluff as children when we told him we were leaving his place (apparently we were dissatisfied with the level of care he was providing on a weekend we were left with him). He hid candy around the house. He’d be walking down a hallway, take a decorative cup off the wall, and pour a handful of M&M’s out of it. Approaching the dessert table at any holiday, he would always tell us that his strategy was to try everything all by taking a “sliver” of each. He famously claimed to be able to fix just about any broken object with rubber bands and glue. He and his first wife Janet didn’t give my mother Ramona a middle name so that she could shift her maiden name into the middle slot when she got married. It’s now my middle name, too.

His catchphrase was “wait awhile,” a never ending low-key call for patience from those around him. He owned a few Frank Sinatra bootleg concerts on CD that he “got from a guy on the golf course.” One time our family was on a walk with our German Shepherd, whose name was Christmas, and another dog approached and attacked him. It was chaos. I was so scared! Grandad whipped off his belt and got it around the other dog’s neck restoring order until the dog’s owner arrived. He was usually pretty modest, but he wouldn’t mind acknowledging how slick that move was at later family re-tellings of the tale.

During World War II, he was stationed on the USS Yorktown, flying a Corsair fighter bomber through missions and battles right up until the end of the war. In fact, during the Japanese Instrument of Surrender—which was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of the war—Bernard was one of three pilots circling above the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to ensure safety. There were several close calls during his service in World War II; in the book Dogfight over Tokyo, the author explains that in one instance he, ”barely avoided death.” If Bern had not survived and made it back home, I literally would not be typing this. These are the kind of things that really make you think hard about history, and how your life is dependent on a long, long chain of other people beating the odds, surviving, and making a family. Unlike the time he used his belt as a dog leash, he was modest about his service in the war, telling author John Wukovitz, “I didn’t do anything special. It was my job.”

He was an excellent sport. How else would you a describe a war hero who later appeared in several of his grandson’s surrealistic film-school art movies without ever complaining about it? In one of these movies, I didn’t have a script for the scene. I just told him that his grandson—the world’s best mini-putter—was coming to him for advice, but for some reason, all he wanted to do was impart the importance of flossing to him. He improvised the whole scene; he was hilarious! An excerpt from his text message review of my book: “Just finished your book and found it very interesting and education. I didn’t know much about the drug scene and learned a lot!” I’m sure sometimes I must have seemed like a kid from another planet to him, and some of the stuff I made he vocally disapproved of, but I could always tell he was proud of me for being a unique individual and following my own path. He gave me his WWII pilot sunglasses awhile back, so I had them restored, and just last month visited him to show him the job. We both posed wearing them, hamming it up for the camera, as we sometimes do. 

He told me about a job interview he once had for an engineer position at a paper mill. The boss asked the standard set of questions and then, quite unexpectedly, inquired, “Do you like the circus, Bern?” Grandad thought it over for a second and replied, “Sure, I like the circus.” The guy proceeded to take Bern to the circus right then and there, where he was a well-known super-fan, introducing Bernard to everyone backstage. “I met the bearded lady, the lion tamer, the acrobats,” Grandad explained. He did not take the job.

Bern lived through the Great Depression, World War II, JFK assassination, the 60's, Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq war, birth of the internet, Y2K, 9/11, invention of iPhones, housing collapse, the Covid pandemic, Trump, etc. but when my sister asked him a few weeks ago when the craziest time to go through was, he said right now. Right now was the craziest.

I was in my 2nd year of college when my Grandma Barbara died—my dad’s mom. As we all walked away from the gravesite, I was very distraught, crying and sobbing as I made my way down the hill alone. Suddenly, Grandad’s arm was around me, consoling me. He told me something that day that I’ve never forgotten. “This is all life is,” he said, “You grow up, you fall in love, you laugh with your friends, and then eventually, it ends for everyone. It’s ok, Ryan. That’s just life.”

It’s as good of an explanation for what we’re doing here as any, I think, and it’s certainly helped me in the last few days as I’ve had to say goodbye to one of the greats. Safe travels, Grandad, I love you.

[everythingkennedy]

The night of JFK’s funeral. View of the eternal flame (in center) at President John F. Kennedy’s gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery, as seen from the Lincoln Memorial. Visible in the background is Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial; cars travel along Arlington Memorial Bridge in the foreground. Arlington, Virginia. 

[47burlm]

March 14, 1967

On this day in history, the body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a spot just a few feet away from its original interment site at Arlington National Cemetery. The slain president had been assassinated more than three years earlier, on November 22, 1963.

Although JFK never specified where he wanted to be buried, most of his family and friends assumed he would have chosen a plot in his home state of Massachusetts.  Because JFK was a World War II veteran, he qualified for a plot at Arlington National Cemetery, but he also deserved a special site befitting his presidential status. The spring before he died, President Kennedy had made an unscheduled tour of Arlington and had remarked to a friend on the view of the Potomac from the Custis-Lee Mansion, reportedly saying it was "so magnificent I could stay forever." After the assassination, the friend who accompanied JFK to Arlington that day relayed the comment to the president’s brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who suggested the site to Jacqueline Kennedy, the president’s widow.  Jackie, who was responsible for the final decision, toured the site on November 24 and agreed. “He belongs to the people,” she said.

During funeral preparations, the first lady asked if cemetery workers could erect some sort of eternal flame at the gravesite. Cemetery officials scrambled to put together a makeshift Hawaiian torch under a wire dome, covered by dirt and evergreen boughs. The flame was fed by copper tubing from a propane tank situated 300 feet away. After the graveside military ceremony on November 25, Jackie lit the first eternal flame and, a few days later, the gravesite was enclosed with a white picket fence. In December 1963, Jackie Kennedy returned to the grave and was photographed kneeling in prayer among a sea of wreaths and bouquets left by recent visitors.

JFK’s original gravesite attracted 16 million visitors in the first three years after his death.  In 1967, the Kennedy family and Arlington officials chose to move JFK’s grave in order to construct a safer, more stable eternal flame and to accommodate the extensive foot traffic caused by tourists. The final resting place, which is only a few feet from the original site, took 2 years to construct, during which time JFK’s body was secretly moved and re-interred in a private ceremony attended by Jackie, his brothers Edward and Robert, and President Lyndon Johnson. The bodies of two of the couple’s children who died at birth were also moved to the new site from graves in Massachusetts. The makeshift propane gas line was replaced with a permanent natural gas line and furnished with a continuous electronic flashing spark that reignites the flame in case it is extinguished by rain or wind. The Kennedy family chose Cape Cod granite flagstones to surround the flame. They also paid the costs of the original burial, but the federal government funded construction of the final site and appropriates money for the plot’s upkeep.

In 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, also a victim of assassination, was buried near his brother. In 1994, Jackie Kennedy died after a battle with cancer and, although she had remarried and again been widowed, was laid to rest next to her first husband, JFK.

William Taft is the only other president besides JFK interred at Arlington.

[castiellover77]

@incognitajones tagged me :)

Rules: tag 15 people you want to get to know better

Relationship status: separated

Favorite colors: sky blue, black and red

Three favorite foods: tamales, pasta and pot roast

Song stuck in my head: El Beso

Last song I listen to: Buried Alive by Ax7

Last movie I watche: Rogue One

Time: 11:36

Top three shows: Supernatural, Angel the series and forensic files

Books that I’m currently reading: Beloved, Ghostland, And the Great Gatsby

Last thing I googled: Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress

How many blankets do you sleep with: one Mexican blanket and one comforter

Dream trip: Boston to the JFK library and Arlington Cemetery to visit RFK’s gravesite

Anything you really want: Misha Collins & Diego Luna 😍

@thestarbirdfromtheashes @sleepykalena @satmolly @castiellover20

[my-awesome-roadtrip]

Day 9 : 2nd July 2022 - Philadelphia PA

A bucket list ticked off today !  Just wanted to mention the some wonderful people that we have met.

First of all Jadene, she was the Manager at the Alamo Car Pick Up Centre. What brilliant Customer Service, we were given such a ridiculously naff Smart phone, pretending to be a SatNav. We couldn’t even to get it to work, after a long flight, we were tired and hot and along she came.

We explained the problem and the next moment the Sherman appeared, no extra charge, the last time we had such an upgrade it cost us 600$.. thank goodness for her because it’s been so easy to navigate our RoadTrip.

Yesterday we met Joanne, honestly we only wanted to take a photo of Stonewall Jackson’s arm grave, but she took us on a personal tour of the Ellwood House. If Tony and I had been on our own , we would have been in and out in 10 minutes , however we learned so much about the ordinary people caught up in the American Civil War.

Then there was Russell, he was the docent at James Madisons Montpelier, he greeted us with 

“ I was warned there were two Brits on the tour”  And he finished the tour  with 

“ Thank you for giving me the privilege of sharing this story with you “

I think the the privilege was ours, I knew James Madison was a President, but I had no idea of his accomplishments, Russell told us he was a interpreter  of history and  reported things as he saw them, well he certainly captured our imagination and our interest.  Well, awoke in the Emperor bed with a start and it was already 6.30am,we very quickly got washed and changed and at the breakfast table within half an hour ! 

We threw our belongings into a suitcase and then into the Sherman and Tony nosed out on the highway and we were on our way to Arlington National Cemetery.

We soon arrived in DC and passing the Pentagon and the Capitol in the distance, it’s dome glinting in the early morning sun.

Arlington is run with military precision, I honestly thought you just rocked up, parked and walked into these hallowed grounds. Oh no, they have huge parking areas, lots of people directing you everywhere and airport type screening. Such a shame that terrorism is a threat even in a Cemetery.

It was a hot day, but we decided not to get the shuttle that takes you all the way around Arlington, perhaps we were foolish to walk, but we saw everything we wanted to, plus saved a few $$$.

The brilliant staff showed us the way to Medgar Evers’s grave, what saddened me immensely was that his grave stone was all alone.

Medgar Evers was a veteran of WWII, however he was a prominent member of the NAACP ( National Association of the Advancement of Coloured People ) he also assisted into the investigation of the murder of Emmett Till.

PART TWO

So Medgar was walking up to his front door in Jackson Mississippi, when he was murdered by a high ranking member of the Klan ( I’m unable to use the the full name, as I fear my blog will be deleted by the moderator ), by the name of Byron de la Beckwith.  It took his widow 31y to bring him to justice.

So let’s go back to his gravestone, I wonder why it was all on its own away from the main body of the cemetery ?

We then found the grave of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the second woman and the first Jewish person to be appointed to US Supreme Court, she was appointed in 1993 when she was 60 years old and a champion for gay rights, women’s rights, the poor and the marginalised.  Finally we stumbled upon the gravesite of JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy. I was so disappointed, for such a great President, the area around his remembrance was a bit overgrown, in fact his stone was barely legible. I will say the whole area was silent as a grave, so to speak, everyone spoke in hushed tones or not at all.

By this time the sun was up and it was getting extremely warm, however we persevered and walked the fifty or so steps to Arlington House, the Robert E Lee Memorial, boy did I struggle and by the time I got to the top I was drenched. it was a relief to get into the the air conditioned building … now this is a story to tell.

The house was built by George Washington’s grandson and eventually the property passed onto his daughter who then married Robert E Lee. 

Arlington House was a plantation with 100 slaves, however after Lee lost the war to the Union, the Union confiscated the property and turned it into a cemetery to honour the dead of the Civil War and it has continued to honour military personnel since.

I’m not too sure what I think of Lee, he was a Union soldier who fought for the Confederates … 

Anyway, here we are in Philadelphia 

[regisdc2022]

JFK’s gravesite and the eternal flame.

[jameslarkensmith]

A place called Hope😀. It’s amazing the presidential history along the #amtraktexaseagle route. LBJ Library in Austin. George Bush library in Dallas, assassination of JFK in Dallas. Clinton birthplace in Hope Ark, and library in Little Rock. Lincoln library and home and gravesite in Springfield Illinois, and Obama future library in Chicago area. Amazing route. #presidentialhistory (at Hope, Arkansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUMBKCkgwSJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Trump and the Troops: The Media’s Latest Self-Satisfied Grift

Watch how this is done: Joe Biden plans to resign after only one year in the White House, according to someone with direct knowledge of the Bidens’ plans.

A senior official at Northern Virginia Community College confirmed that Jill Biden reached out recently to see if she could resume teaching if her husband was elected—Dr. Biden famously taught there while her husband served as vice president and had befriended the official. The College immediately offered her a four-year cycle of classes. She wanted, however, to make only a one-year commitment. “We won’t be in Washington for the full term,” Biden reportedly explained. “Joe��ll stay in office for a year and work on some signature issues like cancer research, but Kamala will be doing the heavy lifting from day one. Joe will quietly resign and give her plenty of time to make the job her own. It’s set in stone I’m afraid. I wouldn’t let him run any other way given his health.”

I made that up. See how easy it is? Start with a known bias, that many people believe Joe Biden won’t serve his whole term. Play off the fear that he’s a Trojan Horse. Tell people what they already believe: Harris is selected, not elected. Include some truth (Dr. Jill Biden did teach at Northern Virginia Community College during the Obama administration). And then take advantage of the magic of anonymous sources.

This comes in the context of an article in The Atlantic by Jeff Goldberg, where anonymous sources claim the president disrespected America’s military. Goldberg’s piece was followed by former Russiagate FBI agent Peter Strzok telling another Atlantic writer that Trump is controlled by the Russians. Then came the return of Alexander Vindman (powered by an anonymous source, er, “whistleblower”) and excerpts from Bob Woodward’s book Rage claiming without details that Dan Coats and Jim Mattis planned “collective action” against the president.

Those are only a few recent examples. Amid a four year tantrum, the media has recklessly published anything anti-Trump without concern for truth, little better than the minor celebs who take to Twitter to announce #TrumpisaPedo. Journalism has become farce, its purpose not to inform but to advocate. Influence ops. Propaganda.

It’s worth making an example out of Goldberg’s article because of its exclusive use of anonymous sources in pursuit of advocacy, in this case, trying to chip away at Trump’s pro-military base. Though Goldberg talks about events from as long as four years ago, the actual article was released alongside a Military Times poll showing Biden gaining some support among service members, and dovetailed with fuzzy reporting that Trump ignored Russian bounties on Americans in Afghanistan.

The questions of timing and motive make the validity of the sources ever more important. How do we know Goldberg didn’t make things up, or at least allow himself to be used for a partisan end as he did in advocating for the whole false narrative of WMDs in Iraq? Unless you’re Goldberg’s mother or the town mayor from Jaws, credibility comes from sources, not a writer’s inner soul. Goldberg is lacking.

As a diplomat, I staffed overseas presidential visits from Reagan to Obama. I sat in on planning meetings and got a pretty close-up view of the Secret Service. The president exists inside a series of bubbles, like Russian nesting dolls (forgive me). The innermost bubble, the one where someone might hear his personal thoughts, is reserved for very, very few people. The universe of those who could have been physically close enough to Trump (or any president) to overhear such sensitive remarks is tiny.

So if we know the names of the sources, it will be easy to place them in that special group, or not. It will be easy to check photos to see if they were where they would have needed to be to overhear. Fact-checkers could determine who else was around to confirm or deny the story (11 Trump officials deny it by name, zero confirm). Knowing the names resolves the risk. Trust but verify.

Goldberg’s sources say Trump remarked to former White House chief of staff and retired Marine General John Kelly, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” A real reporter would also provide context (Bob Woodward in Rage is also guilty of this, dropping a turd quote in the public punch bowl and then moving on), asking what was said before and after the damning remarks. It is not uncommon for civilians to respectfully inquire as to what motivates men to run into fires, to sacrifice themselves for a buddy, to stand in harm’s way.

Trump supposedly said this at the Arlington National Cemetery gravesite of Kelly’s son, a Marine killed in Afghanistan. This photo shows who was there—Kelly, two family members, Trump, and Pence. This would have been the moment when Trump would have made his remark, and those are the only five people on earth who would have heard it. Trump and Pence deny it; the Kelly family has been silent. The same photo set shows Trump meeting later with other Gold Star families, none of whom claim he made any disparaging remarks.

There is also a sniff test to be applied. The credibility of journalism should not depend on the reader’s biases; that’s the domain of late-night Trump Sucks You Guys comedy. Trump mocking Kelly’s son at graveside would be among the most horrible things anyone could do to a parent. Who would say such a thing? There is no record of the worst humans in history, men like Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot, saying such things. There is no record of concentration camp guards, men capable of killing children, saying such things. Would Kelly, a blooded Marine, stand silently with his family as accomplices in their humiliation, then release the information only years later while hiding behind the skirt of a journalist to score a glancing political point?

Though it got much less attention, The Atlantic followed up Goldberg with a piece that included a named source and allowed him to list out baseless accusations of treason. Former FBI agent Peter Strzok sees grassy knolls everywhere. The Atlantic helps him along, introducing a back-and-to-the-left theory by saying, “Despite multiple investigations by the FBI, Congress, and Mueller’s team, Americans have still never learned the full story about the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia.” Like what?

Well, Strzok says he doesn’t really know, but it must be hidden in Trump’s taxes (which the IRS has reviewed for decades). The writer feels it in her ample gut, too, stating in her best Kevin Costner voice, “Strzok was getting too close to the truth.” Ah, from Strzok: “I do think the president is compromised, that he is unable to put the interests of our nation first, that he acts from hidden motives, because there is leverage over him, held specifically by the Russians but potentially others as well.” That is a straight-up accusation of treason.

And there both the writer and the source leave it, no specifics, no follow-up questions, not even a pee tape. We’re left to infer that They Are All In On It, everyone who could have blown this wide open is dummied up—FBI, CIA, NSA, DOJ. Remember Mr. X, the character in JFK played by Donald Sutherland? Strzok wants to be him. Problem is he’s not good enough for an Oliver Stone film, so he’s just out there pimping his book.

The Atlantic articles are sucked oranges. Writing this after the hot takes have faded, it’s clear they had little lasting effect and thus weren’t even decent propaganda. Goldberg’s article got far too much attention for how little it had to say. But it has not gotten enough review as a marker, the place we had to end up when the media wholeheartedly advocated for the Iraq war based on lies, literally rewrote history with the 1619 Project for political ends, buried things of concern with Hillary, helped create Russiagate, and used its own freedom of speech to quash dissenting voices as unpatriotic in 2003 and as “useful idiots” and Russian bots since.

In defense of what they call advocacy, crappy journalists often cite Walter Cronkite’s late opposition to the Vietnam War or Ed Murrow’s shaming of Joe McCarthy. Not only are such gold-standard examples rare enough that the list often ends there, they ignore the negative examples above. They also ignore how Cronkite’s and Murrow’s advocacy came at the end of dispassionate study and deep introspection. Cronkite and Murrow broke the objectivity wall not for a favored candidate, but over issues of deep national importance. And they understood the difference before acting.

Peter Van Buren, a 24-year State Department veteran, is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan, and Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99 Percent.

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RFK’s Granddaughter Dies at 22

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Saoirse Kennedy Hill Courtesy of Kerry Kennedy/InstagramSaoirse Kennedy Hill, a granddaughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, died on Thursday, August 1. She was 22.

Superstar Deaths in 2019 The New York Occasions studies that Kennedy Hill suffered an obvious overdose at the household’s historic compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, the place her grandmother and RFK’s widow, Ethel Kennedy, lives. Emergency personnel responded to the house on Thursday afternoon and rushed Kennedy Hill to Cape Cod Hospital, the place she was pronounced useless. “Our hearts are shattered by the lack of our beloved Saoirse,” the Kennedy household stated in an announcement to the newspaper. “Her life was crammed with hope, promise and love.” Ethel, 91, added, “The world is rather less lovely at the moment.” Courtney Kennedy Hill and daughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill attend the Communicate Reality to Energy Memorial Profit Gala at Pier Sixty in New York Metropolis on October 6, 2006. Evan Agostini/Getty Photographs Most Stunning Superstar Deaths of All Time Kennedy Hill’s official reason behind demise “stays below investigation,” in response to the Cape and Islands District Lawyer’s Workplace. Kennedy Hill was a pupil at Boston School, the place she had been finding out communications and served as vp of the School Democrats. She was anticipated to graduate in 2020. She beforehand attended the personal preparatory college Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts.

In 2016, Kennedy Hill opened up about her battle with despair in Deerfield Academy’s pupil newspaper, The Deerfield Scroll. She wrote that her psychological well being struggles began in center college and would “be with me for the remainder of my life.”

Well-known Superstar Households Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill locations a white rose at the Everlasting Flame, President John F. Kennedy’s gravesite, at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery in Virginia on June 6, 2000. Hillery Smith Garrison/AP/ShutterstockKennedy Hill’s demise is way from the primary tragedy to strike her well-known political household. Her grandfather RFK and his brother President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in 1968 and 1963, respectively. Their brother Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was killed in motion throughout World Struggle II in 1944, and their sister Kathleen Cavendish died in an airplane crash in 1948. JFK’s son John F. Kennedy Jr. additionally died in a airplane crash in 1999, and JFK’s youngest son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, died as an toddler in 1963. Moreover, RFK and JFK’s brother Ted Kennedy, who was additionally a senator, served jail time for the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, through which he by accident drove his automotive off a single-lane bridge and right into a pond, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy Hill is survived by her dad and mom, Paul Michael Hill and Courtney Kennedy Hill, amongst different relations.

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Fifty-five years later, JFK’s assassination still brings pilgrims to his grave

Fifty-five years later, JFK’s assassination still brings pilgrims to his grave

Pat Mulloy visits the grave of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 22. Mulloy volunteered for Kennedy’s campaign and shook his hand on two occasions. When he was a teen, he met him and said, “Good luck, Jack!” He comes to the gravesite with his wife, Marjorie, every year. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)