Tag Archives: JFK

Slate recaps: The first trailer for Jackie, Pablo Larraín’s portrait of then–first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, is all about Natalie Portman, and with good reason—the actress’ performance drew rave reviews at the Venice and Toronto film festivals, with some even suggesting the Oscar for Best Actress is hers to lose. The biopic’s new trailer cuts between different moments in the …

The Hill reports: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday defended presidential nominee Donald Trump, who again linked Sen. Ted Cruz’s father to President Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald last week. “He’s got a right to talk about whatever he wants to talk about, however, I don’t think he was every saying this was some of factual information,” Priebus …

Because some idiot walked away from his suitcase. Gothamist reports: JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark airports are tightening security today, following yesterday’s suicide bombing at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport that left 41 dead and over 230 injured. So far, the Port Authority has sent armored trucks loaded with tactical weapons to patrol outside area airports, and JFK’s Terminal 5 was briefly shut …

Politico reports: Wednesday morning, the Republican presidential front-runner — now the presumptive nominee — was back to his familial attack, suggesting that Cruz never denied that his father was pictured with John F. Kennedy’s assassin. “All I was doing was referring to a picture that was reported and in a magazine and I think they didn’t deny it,” Trump said …

Politico reports: Donald Trump on Tuesday alleged that Ted Cruz’s father was with John F. Kennedy’s assassin shortly before he murdered the president, parroting a National Enquirer story claiming that Rafael Cruz was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963. A Cruz campaign spokesperson told the Miami Herald, which pointed out numerous …

McClatchy reports: The National Enquirer has published what it says is conclusive evidence that Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael B. Cruz, is the man photographed next to JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald distributing pro-Castro leaflets in 1963 in New Orleans. The Cruz presidential campaign fired back unequivocally. “This is another garbage story in a tabloid full of garbage,” communications director Alice …

“The president is a socialist. He is neutering the United States on the world stage. He is spending us into bankruptcy. He is hellbent on expanding national health care, which will surely lead to government death panels. He is advancing big-government agendas everywhere from Main Street to Wall Street. And do we really know the truth about his personal history …

Crackpot conspiracy theorist Alex Jones loaded his flying saucer with several dozen fellow crazies yesterday to descend on Dealey Plaza in Dallas so that they could, at last, reveal the truth about JFK’s assassination. On Wednesday, Jones had exposed the super-secret plot of the Dallas police to kidnap him before the protest so that the truth never comes out. Unfortunately, …

Breitbart is blaming the assassination of JFK on the ACLU and liberalism. Although conspiracy theories abound as to who orchestrated President John F. Kennedy’s murder 50 years ago, there is little doubt regarding who actually pulled the trigger and shot the 35th president: left-wing radical Lee Harvey Oswald. Whatever theories exist about connections to the Soviet Union, Cuba, the mob, …

I was four years old when JFK was assassinated and lately I’ve wondered how real my memories of my mom, my aunt, and my grandmother crying in front of the TV are. We were at my grandparents’ house in Newark for Thanksgiving that week and my mother later often told the story about everybody rushing home from work that day …

The Wall Street Journal reports: U.S. airlines have canceled more than 4,700 flights due to depart Sunday and Monday, ahead of the expected landfall early Tuesday of Hurricane Sandy. Airlines canceled 1,030 domestic and international services on Sunday and a further 3,680 due to depart Monday, with east coast airports expected to decide later Sunday whether or not to close. …

JFK has a $100M anti-terrorism security system but it couldn’t stop a man with a broken jet-ski who swam three miles to shore then walked across two of the busiest runways in the world. Daniel Casillo, 31, was able to swim up to and enter the airport grounds on Friday night, past an intricate system of motion sensors and closed-circuit …

You know how every “deadly virus breakout” movie focuses on airports and usually depicts scientists tracking the air travel of the bug’s first carriers? Now there’s a study that ranks U.S. airports in terms of their “disease contagion spreading influence.” Interestingly, the results don’t track exactly with how busy the airports are. Honolulu, the nation’s 25th busiest airport, ranks third …

Travelers at JFK will get a special gay pride treat tomorrow, courtesy of American Airlines. The Advocate reports: The cast of Priscilla, the musical from Bette Midler based on the 1994 Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, will perform musical numbers free Thursday at 3 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. The numbers include renditions of “Like a …

Yikes: Two planes collided Monday while taxiing at Kennedy Airport around 8:15 p.m., according to Port Authority officials One of the planes was a Paris-bound Air France A380 — one of the largest in the world — which was carrying 500 passengers. While on its way to the runway for takeoff, it somehow ran into a taxiing Comair plane that …

The company that handles advertising at JFK and LGA has rejected the new PETA campaign. PETA tells Gothamist it’s because their images are too sexy. The ad, which PETA had hoped to display near the full-body scanners that will be installed at the two airports, shows an airport security X-ray scan of a trim woman wearing a bra and panties …

Taiwan’s Apple Action News’ specialty is computer animations of breaking events. Here’s their take on JetBlue folk hero Steven Slater, complete with that “sexual embrace” with his boyfriend.

Already. And Facebook too. Slater was arraigned on charges of criminal mischief and reckless endangerment in the Queens Supreme Court. The judge set bail at $2500. Letterman and The View are doubtlessly next. UPDATE: There’s also a legal defense fund.