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One Giant Leap….. Reflections on the 45th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
Introduction This week marks the 45th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing. It is hard to overstate the impact of this event to the world at the time; the moon landing was a major victory...
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JFK, The Cold War, and Vladimir Putin
Despite a crowded news docket, Russian aggression in the Ukraine region continues to draw the attention of the world. Under the Presidency of Soviet-throwback and former KGB officer Vladimir Putin,...
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MY EXPERIENCE IN PROMOTING “HISTORY WILL PROVE US RIGHT”
Spending the summer on our farm in Western New York has provided the opportunity – between chores – to reflect on my book tour during the past year to discuss my book about President Kennedy’s...
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Ferguson and the Civil Rights Movement
Until two week ago, the town of Ferguson, MO was mostly unknown by those not living in the St. Louis metropolitan region. That all changed on Aug. 9, when an eighteen year-old African American young...
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World War II and its Impact on JFK
This week marks 75 years since Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and began World War II. Sept 1939—Nazis march through Poland. Approximately 60 million people would die in the war,...
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JFK Campaigns for the Presidency in Texas (1960)
“On September 12, 1960, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson touched down in Texas for a couple days of campaigning. This rare film captures the campaign as it travels through Forth Worth and Dallas,...
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9/11 — Never Forget, large and small
The attacks on September 11th, 2001 form for many of us an indelible memory that separates history into two periods: before 9/11 and after. In that respect, for my generation, September 11, 2001, was...
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Response To Philip Shenon’s Politico Article Regarding Robert Kennedy And The...
During his year-long campaign to trash the Warren Commission, Philip Shenon has consistently ignored the facts. In his recent Politico article about the Warren Commission’s decision not to ask Attorney...
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Election Day! JFK Reminds the nation to vote
In a midterm election just like this one, JFK in 1962 used televised remarks to remind the nation to VOTE! http://howardwillens.com/hwil/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/jfk-vote.mp3 The post Election Day!...
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MORE ABOUT ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND THE WARREN COMMISSION
After I responded to Philip Shenon’s article about Attorney General Robert Kennedy being a “conspiracy theorist,” other commentators weighed in on the general subject of the Attorney General and the...
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