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John F. Kennedy

Trump’s Order to Release JFK, RFK, and MLK Files Doesn’t Cover Everything Blog

Trump’s Order to Release JFK, RFK, and MLK Files Doesn’t Cover Everything

Three days after taking office as the 47th President, Donald J. Trump took the bold and necessary step of issuing an Executive Order that will result in the declassification (and one presumes the release) of all intelligence community files on the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations. Thus, President Trump made good on a 2024 campaign promise. It’s a vision of…
John Avery Emison
February 14, 2025
Calhoun and the 21st Century Blog

Calhoun and the 21st Century

In 1957, Senator John F. Kennedy issued a report on the five most important Senators in United States history. He included John C. Calhoun, and while he understood the historical controversy it might create, Kennedy insisted that Calhoun's "masterful" defense "of the rights of a political minority against the dangers of an unchecked majority" and "his profoundly penetrating and original…
Brion McClanahan
September 8, 2022