Curated playlist
Kennedy family
- John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy spent hours in the water towing a burned crewman after a destroyer cut his boat in half.
- Robert F. KennedyRobert F. Kennedy won the California Democratic primary on the 5th of June 1968, and around midnight a gunman shot him. Kennedy died 25 hours later. The shooter was Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian who acted in retaliation for…
- John F. Kennedy Jr.John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. spent his life answering to a name his own family never used. The nickname John-John began when a reporter misheard the president calling out "John" twice in quick succession. The mistake stuck. From then on,…
- Ted KennedyEdward Moore Kennedy had just lost the fight for his party's presidential nomination. On the 12th of August 1980 he stepped to the podium at Madison Square Garden. His closing words stayed with the hall: "the work goes on, the cause…
- Caroline KennedyCaroline Kennedy was a small girl riding a pony named Macaroni when a news photograph of her became the seed of a pop song. The picture showed her circling the White House grounds. It inspired singer-songwriter Neil Diamond to write "Sweet…
- Rosemary KennedyRosemary Kennedy once sat down and copied out, slowly and laboriously, a reply that someone else had written in her name. The Boston Globe had asked to interview her. Her father's assistant composed the answer instead. In it, she was made…
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Schwarzenegger broke into a locked gym on weekends as a teenager. He later became California's governor.
- Maria ShriverMaria Shriver was volunteering on her father's 1972 vice presidential campaign when she was sent to the back of the campaign plane, where the reporters sat. In her 2000 book, Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into The Real…
- Kennedy curseThe Kennedy curse got its name from a question asked on television. A week after an accident on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy gave a televised statement. In it he said he wondered whether some awful curse did actually hang…
- Kennedy familyThe Kennedy family of America kept at least one member in federal elected office in every year from 1947 until 2011. That unbroken run began with a young congressman from Massachusetts named John F. Kennedy. It ended only when his nephew,…