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Combined with Kennedy's overall usage of rhetorical devices in the Rice University speech, they were particularly apt as a declaration that began the American space race. [21] Kennedy depicted a romantic notion of space exploration in the Rice University speech in which all citizens of the United States, and even the world, could participate ...
The Kennedy brothers: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The Kennedy family is one of the most established political families in the United States, having produced a president, three senators, three ambassadors, and multiple other representatives and politicians.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John-John or JFK Jr., was an American socialite, attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was a son of 35th United States president John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy .
Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Caroline Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy join John F. Kennedy Jr. for his graduation from Phillips Academy at Andover in 1979. Bettmann - Getty Images
That night, and Kennedy's life leading up to it, are all discussed in Terenzio and McNeil's new book, JFK Jr.:An Intimate Oral Biography.Kennedy's death was preceded by other tragedies, first of ...
Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third US human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of ...
Three days after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, a state funeral was held in Washington, D.C. on November 25, 1963, the same day as John F. Kennedy Jr.'s third birthday. As the funeral ...
Pushinka was the daughter of Strelka, who had travelled into space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2. [3] Pushinka arrived at the Kennedy White House after Jacqueline Kennedy had spoken to Khrushchev about Strelka at a state dinner in Vienna. Mrs. Kennedy asked about Strelka's puppies, and one was subsequently sent by Khrushchev to the White House. [4]