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88 unusual facts about John F. Kennedy


1963 college football season

Most of the games that had been scheduled for November 23, 1963 were postponed after the assassination of John F. Kennedy the day before.

1963 Dallas Cowboys season

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, stands out as a pivotal moment in the season.

1963 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

Iowa's game against Notre Dame was cancelled on November 23, 1963 following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy one day earlier.

1963 New York Giants season

Of the final 9 games in the 1963, season, the Giants lost only one: A 24–17 defeat by the St. Louis Cardinals in a game played at Yankee Stadium a few days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1963 World Ice Hockey Championships

A heavy defeat by Sweden prompted President John F. Kennedy to complain about their performance in a telephone call to David Hackett.

6.5×52mm Mannlicher-Carcano

The cartridge has achieved some notoriety, as a World War II Italian Carcano rifle was identified by the Warren Commission as the weapon used by former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald in his assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Aki Nawaz

The video ends with a shot of graffiti which quotes John F. Kennedy's statement "If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable."

Alan Stephenson Boyd

He was promoted to chairman of that board by US President John F. Kennedy.

American Rifleman

Lee Harvey Oswald killed US President John F. Kennedy with a rifle purchased from a Klein's Sporting Goods ad in the February 1963 issue of American Rifleman.

Americans for Democratic Action

James Isaac Loeb (later an ambassador and diplomat in the John F. Kennedy administration), the UDA's executive director, advocated disbanding the UDA and forming a new, more broadly-based, mass-membership organization.

Barack Obama – Der schwarze Kennedy

The book's title, which implies a comparison between Obama and John F. Kennedy, seemed gimmicky to some people when it was published in December 2007.

Barr McClellan

As a student McClellan was an active supporter of Senator John F. Kennedy's presidential bid.

Ben Scotti

In 1963, Scotti received brief national attention when the weekend after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy he precipitated a fight with teammate John Mellekas that sent Mellekas to the hospital.

Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield

Following the Cuban missile crisis, he was one of the MPs who signed a letter calling on U.S. President John F. Kennedy to withdraw Polaris and Thor missiles from the UK as a gesture in response to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev withdrawing Soviet missiles from Cuba.

Bijan Jazani

The administration of John F. Kennedy also demanded political and economical reform in the Shah's government for 85 million dollar assistance.

Blackhawk Museum

Over the years, the museum has also housed a 1962 John F. Kennedy limousine and a Chinese Hongqi, the first Chinese made automobile to be imported to the United States.

Boca de Yuma

Later they built the first concrete school here, named after John F. Kennedy in honor of the Thirty-Fifth President of the United States (1961–1963).

Bum Bright

An outspoken conservative, Bright was highly critical of John F. Kennedy.

The full-page, black-bordered ad ran on November 22, 1963, the day that Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

Canada and the 1960 United States presidential election

Personally, many Canadians like others in the democratic world were attracted to the youth and charisma and John F. Kennedy.

Carl Garner

During Carl Garner's over 57 years of public service working for the Corps of Engineers in Arkansas, he headed preparations for the dedication of Greers Ferry Dam by President John F. Kennedy and introduced innumerable families to the outdoors.

Cayo Sila Godoy

In 1963 Godoy, at the personal invitation of President John F. Kennedy, first visited the United States to do a concert tour.

Charles Wesley Parish

Parish's first photography sale was a photograph of President John F. Kennedy taken the day before he died, which gained a popular following and over 150 orders from students at Draughon's Business College.

Chriss Anglin

He also plays the ghost of John F. Kennedy in the film An American Carol, and appeared as Captain Flint in the 2006 film Pirates of Treasure Island by The Asylum.

Chucho Narvaez

In 1965, Narváez was one of the founders of Rede Globo, where he filed reports on topics such as the Argentine-born guerilla Che Guevara, the death of John F. Kennedy, and Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Brazil.

Darleen Carr

Carr made guest appearances on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Waltons, and The Paper Chase; played Henry Fonda's character's daughter for thirty-nine episodes of The Smith Family; and portrayed Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's favorite sister, in a television movie, Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy.

David Sheehan

After college, Sheehan was a newspaperman with the United Press International syndicate, covering celebrities such as Frank Sinatra and his "Rat Pack" involvement in the 1962 John F. Kennedy presidential campaign.

Democrats for Nixon

A Democrat who had been Governor of Texas and United States Secretary of the Navy under John F. Kennedy, Connally formally announced the formation of the organization in August 1972.

Don Mankiewicz

He was nominated for the 1958 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for I Want to Live! Among his many television credits are Ironside, for which he wrote the pilot, the original Star Trek (episode "Court-Martial") and the mini-series adaptation of President John F. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage.

Fernando Demaría

This work was republished in 1972 with the illustrations of Uruguayan artist Lincoln Presno, whose 40 meter memorial monument to John F. Kennedy in the vast pampa region near Quemú Quemú, a town founded by the poet's grandparents, was built upon the poet's request.

Frank Morales

He first became involved in politics after the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as a member of the Assassination Information Committee.

Fritz Kredel

Kredel illustrated Eleanor Roosevelt's children's book, Christmas, and was commissioned to create a woodcut of the Presidential Seal for the inauguration of John F. Kennedy.

Geoffrey Perret

He has published over thirteen books dealing with a variety of topics, among them the U.S. Presidency - including several biographies of iconic Presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Ulysses S. Grant - leading American military commanders such as Douglas MacArthur, and pivotal American military engagements.

Gerard Richardson

His famous painting, Heavenly Mist, is a rendering of the sinking of John F. Kennedy's PT Boat 109 by the Japanese Destroyer, Amagiri.

Gerardo Yepiz

He describes Colosio—shot on live television in 1994, during a campaign rally in Tijuana--as the Mexican equivalent to John F. Kennedy.

Gerovital

During Gerovital's "jet-set" heyday, Gerovital treatments were reportedly administered to John F. Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas and Salvador Dalí.

Godfrey Graham

For the next 40 years, he worked on some of the station's most significant programmes, including Discovery and the visit to Ireland of US President John F. Kennedy.

Heber Springs, Arkansas

Located on the Little Red River, the dam was dedicated in October 1963 by President John F. Kennedy just one month before his assassination.

Hell money

Some even portray famous people who are deceased, such as US President John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe.

Henk Hofland

He covered the Presidential primaries in New Hampshire and West Virginia and heard John F. Kennedy speak, an experience he remembered as “flamboyant, unforgettable”.

Horton Plaza and Broadway Fountain

On November 2, 1960, then Senator John F. Kennedy spoke at Horton Plaza to make a last-minute appeal for votes just six days before the 1960 Presidential Election.

House of Dinefwr

The FitzGerald dynasty and related families of Ireland are female line descendants of the Welsh royal family through Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, last King of Deheubarth, whose descendants include Elizabeth I, John F. Kennedy, and Diana Princess of Wales.

Irene Spencer

Ervil's hitlist would eventually reach the hundreds and include John F. Kennedy and the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Jack Worthington

He is best known for his claims that his mother confided to him, as a result of the discovery of a genetic illness of his presumed father later in life, that he is the illegitimate son of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.

James I. Robertson, Jr.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy nominated Robertson to serve as the executive director of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, a federal committee that was foundering under the pressures of regional differences and the emerging civil rights movement, unable to organize a dignified commemoration of the war era.

James N. Purcell, Jr.

Purcell worked in public affairs for his entire career, serving in every presidential administration from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan.

Johannes Heisig

His large triptych "Be Berlin or: The Unifying Power of Music" shows musicians playing beside John F. Kennedy on his Berlin visit in the 1960s sitting in a car together with Willy Brandt and Konrad Adenauer.

John F. Kennedy Supreme Court candidates

Although he was president for less than three years, John F. Kennedy appointed two men to the Supreme Court of the United States: Byron White and Arthur Goldberg.

John F. Kennedy, Jr. plane crash

Just after 10 p.m. on July 16th, the Martha's Vineyard Airport contacted the Federal Aviation Administration office in Bridgeport, Connecticut about Kennedy's flight, but was told that no information could be released over the phone.

According to the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM): "stress from everyday living can impair pilot performance, often in subtle ways. Distractions can so interfere with judgment that unwarranted risks are taken, such as flying into deteriorating weather conditions to keep on schedule".

John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums

The film, containing both color and black-and-white footage, is narrated by Gregory Peck, and features extensive excerpts from President Kennedy's speeches, including color footage of his swearing in and inaugural address.

John K. Gerhart

He returned to the United States in July 1957 to become the first deputy chief of staff, plans and programs, in Air Force Headquarters - the job he held until appointed by President John F. Kennedy to be commander-in-chief of the North American Air Defense Command, August 1, 1962.

John Naisbitt

In the world of politics he was assistant to the Commissioner of Education under President John F. Kennedy and served as special assistant to HEW Secretary John Gardner during the Johnson administration.

José Martín Sámano

In this period he wrote, edited and produced Kennedy, la Otra Historia, a documentary about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Juliet Sorensen

Sorensen is the daughter of Theodore C. Sorensen (Ted Sorensen), the former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy, and the author of Kennedy and Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, and Gillian M. Sorensen of the United Nations Foundation.

Kennedy Bakircioglü

Born in Södertälje, Bakircioglü was named after United States president John F. Kennedy.

L. Richardson Preyer

He worked for Vick Chemical Company in 1950 (founded by his grandfather) before serving as a North Carolina superior court judge from 1956 to 1961, when President John F. Kennedy appointed him to the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

Lockheed L-2000

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the government to subsidizing 75% of the development of a commercial airliner to compete with the Anglo-French Concorde then under development.

Mario Escudero

Invited to perform at the White House for President John F. Kennedy, Escudero was counted among the best in his era; Ramón Montoya called him "the best flamenco guitarist of this new generation."

Michael Tappin

The 'inner core' of this team, as one local councillor put it, made the John F. Kennedy campaign look like aged amateurs.

Missal

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President of the United States aboard Air Force One using a missal of the late President, because it was presumed to be a Bible.

Mödlareuth

In 1983, the then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush visited and exclaimed, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!", an allusion to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" statement.

Monsignor Edward Pace High School

Pace's first graduating class created the first newspaper, called the Kerygma ("The Proclamation") as well as the first Torch yearbook, which acquired its name from president John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech, in which he referred to passing the "torch" to the next generation.

One Snow Hill Plaza

It receives the name Kennedy Tower from the mural dedicated to John F. Kennedy which was located in Snow Hill Circus until it was removed in mid-2006.

Pete Giddings

He received an award from President John F. Kennedy, recognizing outstanding work in the field of meteorology.

Peter Rodgers Organization

Stephen Rodgers personally holds the copyright to several films, including The Unearthly (1957) and Beginning of the End (1957) He also owns O’Kennedy’s Ireland, a documentary about President John F. Kennedy’s visit to his ancestral home of Dublin, Ireland, where the O'Kennedy dynasty began, only months prior to his assassination in 1963.

Probe 7, Over and Out

Hours before "Night Call" was to air though, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Racial segregation in Atlanta

This drew attention from the national media and from presidential candidate John F. Kennedy.

Ray Roberts

On November 22, 1963, Congressman Roberts was in the Dallas motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Rehbar-I

In 1960, President John F. Kennedy challenged US scientists to land Americans on the moon and bring them back safely to earth, before the decade was out.

Retenzija

It is bounded by the Boulevards of Mihajlo Pupin (west) and Nikola Tesla (east) and the streets of Prve pruge (north) and Džona Kenedija (south).

Richard Bevan Austin

On August 7, 1961, Austin was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by Walter J. LaBuy.

Robert W. MacDonald

The 17-year-old MacDonald spent a week mingling with delegates, and rubbing shoulders with John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Bobby Kennedy (who gave MacDonald a PT-109 tie clip).

Roy M. Davenport

Davenport’s cousin, Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John F. Kennedy, did not appear, as only immediate family, and those who interacted in Davenport’s wartime adventures, were invited.

Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

Since 1958, initially with a slot in ARD including nationwide transmission of the Berlin visit of John F. Kennedy, and later distributed under SFB-frequency, Abendschau reports as an urban magazine on politics, economy, sports and timeliness in Berlin and presents sensitivities, originals and anecdotes from the districts and boroughs.

Space Task Group

President John F. Kennedy persuaded Congress to modify the law to give him the authority to appoint the Vice President to chair the council in his place.

Terence Macartney-Filgate

He was the principal (but uncredited) cameraman on Primary, a seminal documentary about the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary campaign between senators John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey.

Thomas Jamison MacBride

MacBride was nominated by President John F. Kennedy on September 14, 1961, to a new seat created by 75 Stat.

Trafficante crime family

In 1978, Trafficante once again testified before a Congressional committee, this time on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Trigger point

Janet G. Travell's work with trigger point and treatment of US John F. Kennedy's back pain led to her being asked to be the first female Personal Physician to the President.

Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution

It had the support of both Republican President Eisenhower, national Democratic leaders, and later, both party's candidates in the 1960 election, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

Tyler Kent

He condemned President John F. Kennedy as a communist and charged that he was killed by communists because he was abandoning his communist leanings.

Vanities

Toward the end of the act they are stunned by a sudden announcement over their school's PA system about President John F. Kennedy's assassination, which foreshadows the "death" of their friendship at the end of the play.

Vivian Malone Jones

After seeing that Wallace would not step aside, Katzenbach called upon the assistance of President John F. Kennedy to force Wallace to permit the black students' entry into the university.

Wedding dress of Jacqueline Bouvier

The wedding dress of Jacqueline Bouvier was worn by Jacqueline Bouvier (later Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) in her wedding to John F. Kennedy on 12 September 1953.

Welcome W. Wilson, Sr.

Welcome W. Wilson served in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations as a five-state Director of Civil and Defense Mobilization, a division of the Executive Office of the President.

William Ruder

In 1960, Ruder was appointed by John F. Kennedy as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and took a two-year leave of absence from the firm.

World Peace Corps Mission

While witnessing the success of the Peace Corps initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy, the two gentleman co-founded the World Peace Corp Mission as a civilian organization emulating the spirit of the United States Peace Corps Volunteer Service.


Albert Lee Stephens, Jr.

On August 28, 1961, Stephens was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California vacated by Benjamin Harrison.

Anthony Sperduti

Trained as an art director, he has worked as creative director at advertising agencies Wieden & Kennedy (Portland, New York, and London offices), TBWA\Chiat\Day, Modernista and with brands like Nike, The Gap, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, ESPN, MTV, Volvo, and Heineken.

Bill Daniel

In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy appointed him to the position of governor of Guam, an office that he held from May 20, 1961 to January 20, 1963.

Bobby Baker

Baker, and one of his colleagues, lobbyist Bill Thompson, are said to have arranged for Quorum Club hostess Ellen Rometsch to meet John F. Kennedy.

Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos

Valérian and Albert arrive at Kennedy Airport and travel to Schlomo Melsheim's house in Brooklyn.

Canadian federal election, 1968

Stanfield paid tribute to Robert F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated only three days earlier.

Celebrity Bowling

The weekly series was a by-product of The Celebrity Bowling Classic, a 90-minute TV special produced in 1969 for the Metromedia-owned stations, benefitting the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation.

Charles A. Kennedy

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mileage (in the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses), and the Committee on Rivers and Harbors (in the Sixty-sixth Congress).

Cornbread

President John F. Kennedy's staffers, who were mostly northeastern ivy league elites and despised Texan Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson's rural speech patterns, used to refer to Johnson behind his back as 'Uncle Cornpone' or 'Rufus Cornpone'.

David Trick

Trick holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from York University, a Master of Arts from Brandeis University, a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Harriman Kennedy (born 1967), American broadcast journalist, son of Robert F. Kennedy

E. R. Dodds

He had heard of the attempt to land an aircraft on Helvellyn earlier that month, but the flyers John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler had been delayed by weather and mechanic problems.

Edwin H. Whitehead

Edwin H. "Ed" Whitehead (February 26, 1925 - May 20, 2007) was a lawyer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and an early supporter of John F. Kennedy for the American presidency in a state which three times supported Richard M. Nixon.

ESTP

According to Keirsey, based on observations of behavior, notable Promoters might include John F. Kennedy, Teddy Roosevelt, Madonna, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.

Jacksonville Journal

When President Kennedy was assassinated, the Journal set records for evening readership with its Extra editions that kept locals updated about the tragedy.

Jesse William Curtis Jr.

On August 3, 1962, Curtis was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California created by 75 Stat.

Jeta Amata

Jeta’s latest film, Black November was premiered at the United Nations during the General Assembly in 2012 and was also screened at the Kennedy Center as well as the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The film inspired sponsoring of a bi-partisan resolution on the Niger Delta of Nigeria members of the 112th United States Congress, H.CON.RES.121.

John Dryden Kuser

John Dryden Kuser's grandfather, John Fairfield Dryden, was the founder of Prudential Insurance Company and a United States Senator from 1902 to 1907.

John F. Baddeley

The texts taken more especially from manuscripts in the Moscow Foreign Office Archives; the whole by John F. Baddeley; a monumental work, published in 1919 in two volumes as a limited edition of only 250 copies, with an elaborate frontispiece ("the book epitomised in a series of pictures", said Baddeley) drawn by Amédée Forestier and engraved by Emery Walker.

John F. Boynton

In 1869, Boynton was the first geologist to examine the Cardiff Giant after it was unearthed near Cardiff, New York.

John F. Carew

Carew is best remembered as the judge who presided over the trial for custody of 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt in 1934.

John F. Dickson

He remained in command of the precinct until Captain Joseph Dowling, who had formerly sided with Mayor Fernando Wood and the Municipal police force during the Police Riot of 1857, replaced Dickson upon joining the Metropolitan police in 1859.

John F. Hunter

Hunter was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1937–January 3, 1943).

John F. McCarthy

During his tenure, he created and passed a bill for the formation of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in 1957.

John F. Melby

Secretary of State Edmund Muskie restored Melby's security clearance in December 1980 and hired him to work as a consultant on the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict for several months.

John F. Peto

A pioneering study of Peto and Harnett is Alfred Frankenstein's After the Hunt, William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900.

John F. Reif

filling a vacancy created by the retirement of former Justice Robert E. Lavender.

John F. Starr

Starr was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1867, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1866.

John H. Rubel

John H. Rubel (born April 27, 1920) was a business executive in the early post-World War II years of the defense electronics industry, later serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy administration.

Josh P. Kennedy

Kennedy had his most consistent year earning himself his first All-Australian team selection.

Kathleen Donovan

As Port Authority Chairwoman, Donovan was a part-time official overseeing a bi-state agency governing all of the New York area ports, including LaGuardia Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport, along with the World Trade Center and the PATH mass transit system between New York and New Jersey.

Nora Chapa Mendoza

Among her collectors are such notables as Detroit's former Mayor Dennis Archer, singer Aretha Franklin, actor Edward James Olmos, and the former president of General Motors Mr. Jack Smith.

Pim Fortuyn

While Fortuyn compared his own politics to centre-right politicians such as Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, he also admired former Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, a social democrat, and Democratic U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

President Kennedy School and Community College

It was originally to be called either Rookery Lane School or Holbrook High, but the assassination of President John F Kennedy during the approval stage resulted in the school being named after President John F. Kennedy and was founded in 1966.

Robert Bilheimer

Robert has also taught, lectured, and spoken at distinguished academic institutions around the world, including the Eastman School of Music, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Ruth Paine

Lee Harvey Oswald stored the 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle that he used to assassinate U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Ruth Paine's garage, unbeknownst to her and her husband, Michael Paine.

Sligo Middle School

Its receiving schools are Montgomery Blair High School, Albert Einstein High School, John F. Kennedy High School, Northwood High School, and Wheaton High School as a part of the Downcounty Consortium.

SpaghettiOs

The post also quickly spawned parodies, as other users edited the cartoon SpaghettiO into photos of other tragic events (such as the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Hindenburg disaster, and Titanic).

Stan Chambers

Among other stories he has covered are the 1961 Bel Air fires, the 1963 Baldwin Hills Reservoir dam break, the 1971 Sylmar and 1994 Northridge earthquakes, the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr., the 1965 Watts Riots, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Tate-LaBianca murders by the Manson Family, and the Hillside Strangler.

Sunnyside Garden Arena

It was also the site of political rallies, including a 1960 visit by then senator, John F. Kennedy on his presidential campaign.

Taylor Humphries

Humphries was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Los Angeles and D.C. Humphries spent his sophomore year of high school at John F. Kennedy High School (Sacramento, California), yet graduated from Beverly Hills High School and received his BFA in Theatre/Film from Hampton University in Virginia.

Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.

Eliot graduated from Harvard College in 1948 and received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1956.

WHJY

They frequently feature skits and fake recordings, having made fun of many of the local politicians (including, notably, imitations of Rhode Island Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy which compare him to Beaver Cleaver).

William F. Schulz

From 1997 to 2005, Federal Election Commission records show that William F. Schulz contributed a total of $9,450 to the campaigns of Democratic Party politicians Gary Ackerman, Geraldine Ferraro, Carolyn McCarthy, Steve Israel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Edward M. Kennedy, Charles Schumer, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Bill Nelson and Al Gore.

William Usery, Jr.

Usery was responsible for leading labor negotiations and helping to administer and service union contracts at Cape Canaveral AFMTC, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center Manned Spacecraft Center.

Yigal Ravid

Yigal enrolled with the young journalists' scheme after he received a scholarship at the John Kennedy Foundation.