John F. Kennedy

Satirizing Presidential Politics Is Nothing New

It existed way before The Daily Show and even before Saturday Night Live! In fact, a 1962 comedy album starring comedian/impersonator Vaughn Meader was a cultural phenomenon and ended up winning the Grammy for Album of the Year. And 50 years later, it's back and bigger than ever. Bob Booker, who ... More >>

Vice President Biden, You're No Lloyd Bentsen

It was right there. Paul Ryan teed one up for Joe Biden, basically saying "make me look as dopey as Dan Quayle -- I'm 'no Jack Kennedy.' Say it -- I dare you." And the vice president took the pitch.Lloyd Bentsen would be spinning in his grave.During tonight's debate, Ryan did the unthinkable: he mad ... More >>

The Secret to Eternal Youth! Now Available on the Cruise Ship Freewinds!

Scientology watchers, we have a treat for you this morning. This video has been making the rounds the last couple of days, and we can see why it's generating so much interest. Mike Napier, the captain of Scientology's private cruise ship, the Freewinds, stars in this film and tells us about the bene ... More >>

The Kennedy Curse Strikes Again With New Death

Many of the Kennedy family and their spouses have long been walking car crashes, as doomed as cast members from Saturday Night Live. All those good looks and great connections obviously come with a price. Just yesterday, Mary Richardson Kennedy--RFK Jr.'s troubled estranged wife--was found dead at ... More >>

New Yorkers Have to Wait to See Their New Spacecraft

It looks like we're going to have to re-mark our calendars for the arrival of Enterprise in our own backyard. And not the one from Star Trek, the one from NASA.Due to an overcast prediction for Monday's weather, the space agency is holding back on its transfer ("until further notice") of t ... More >>

Donut Pub Vs. Landbrot: Battle of the Jelly Donuts

On the left, slightly the more diminutive, the plain jelly donut from the sainted Donut Pub on 14th Street. On the right, the Berliner from Landbrot on Seventh Avenue. There's an upstart jelly donut in town. It's called the Berliner, and it recently appeared at Landbrot a new German bakery in town ... More >>

Ask What Rick Santorum Will Do to Your Country

In 1960, during his Democratic campaign against Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy made his views on the First Amendment's establishment clause known to a group of Texas ministers by saying he supported an "America where the separation between church and state are absolute." That tidbit of jurisprudence ... More >>

Rick Santorum Thinks The Separation of Church and State Is Nauseating

​Rick Santorum wants religion to play a bigger role in U.S. politics and the total separation of church and state makes him want to hurl. On the campaign trail today, Santorum emphasized his feelings about secularism -- that he finds it barf-worthy, according to The Associated Press (via Was ... More >>

The Someday Funnies: Comics Interruptus

Michel Choquette's treasure trove of '60s cartooning finally hits print

New Book Alleges JFK Really Didn't Want LBJ to be President

via Wikipedia​According to a new book of interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy, the former First Lady said that her husband openly doubted Lyndon Johnson's ability to be president. The interviews, which were conducted by historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in the year following JFK's assassination, ... More >>

Women's Lib The Big Loser in King-Riggs Match, Says...a Guy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 27, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 39 You've come a long way, Bobby by Joe Flaherty Not since the ghastly revelation that Bella Abzug employs a housekeeper has the women's movement suffered such a dark day as September 20, the date of ... More >>

Five Dead and Gone Classic Brooklyn Restaurants

pbase.comAt one time, Lundy's was the world's largest restaurant, seating 2,800 hungry souls.​ Shed a tear for Brooklyn's great restaurants of the past. They once defined life in the borough, making it unnecessary to toddle to Manhattan for a lively and memorable night out, and they died as t ... More >>

Dietrich's Legendary Schtup With JFK: I Have The Dirty Details

​Let's time travel to the 1960s, when sex was just as wonderfully dirty, but much more shameful about it. As you know, President John F. Kennedy slept with everything that wasn't nailed down, but one of his more glorious conquests was screen legend Marlene Dietrich, whom he romanced after inv ... More >>

TSA Agents Steal $40K From JFK Passenger's Bag; Anyone Missing $40K?

​Two TSA agents were arrested today at JFK for stealing $40,000 from a passenger's bag. The New York Times reports Coumar Persad and Davon Webb "took the cash from a passenger's piece of luggage that had contained a total of $170,000 in cash." Is it just us, or does $170,000 seem like somethin ... More >>

Surprise! New York Area Airports Still Suck

​In a groundbreaking new report [pdf], the U.S. Department of Transportation's Inspector General has discovered that flight delays at John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark Airports remain terrible and make New Yorkers -- and, indirectly, people throughout the rest of the country (yes, we're t ... More >>

Richard M. Nixon, Cinephile

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 20, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 34 Film in Focus By Andrew Sarris President Richard M. Nixon may not be quite the cinephile his recent press notices would seem to suggest. Or so we are led to believe by a recent Variety follow-up to the ... More >>

Our Alien Moon Base, Gerald Ford's Pedophilia, and 20 other unlikely claims from The Untold History of America

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Untold History of America: 1492 - 1963 Author: Ray Bilger Date: 1996 Publisher ... More >>

After Miramax

Measuring the prospects of a new crop of independent distributors

Pete Hamill's Eyewitness Account of Robert Kennedy's Assassination

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 13, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 35 Two Minutes to Midnight: The Very Last Hurrah by Pete Hamill LOS ANGELES -- It was, of course, two minutes to midnight an the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel was rowdy with triumph. Red and blue ba ... More >>

10 Offensive Things to Dress As Before You Reach For That Tired Nazi Garb

​Oh, Jesse James. We at the Voice are so over people dressing like Nazis. Here's a tip, JJ: If Prince Harry apologized for it in 2005, it's a trend that's jumped the shark. (Personally, I thought it was over in 1945, but then I've never been into the military look ... Grey-green? Not my color. ... More >>

Robert Morgenthau Goes Out on a Roll

After five decades, the D.A. who did it his way packs up

Celebrity Death Doctors: Michael Jackson's Personal Physician Dr. Conrad Murray and Seven Other Notorious Real-Life Procurers

Dr. Conrad Murray​Just ten days before Michael Jackson's death, Dr. Conrad Murray sent a letter to patients in his clinics in Houston and Las Vegas, telling them he was leaving his practices to serve as personal physician for Michael Jackson on his 50-date This Is It London run, calling it "a ... More >>

Edward M. Kennedy, 1932-2009

​Last night Edward Kennedy, who had been suffering from brain cancer, succumbed at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. His life story is so well known as to hardly bear repeating: younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Presidential contender, Senator ... More >>

Clip Job: Mailer Endorses Bobby

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 29, 1964, Vol. X, No. 2A Vote for Bobby K. -- Possibility of a HeroBy Norman MailerWhen there first began to be talk, back last winter, of Bobby Kennedy going in against Kenneth Keating, I had the reaction of a prize fight manager ... More >>

Clip Job: Schlesinger Vs. Vidal

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 15, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 52Schlesinger vs. VidalBy Mary Perot NicholsArthur Schlesinger, Jr., liberal historian-cum-political pamphleteer, touched base at the Village Independent Democrats last week. And like his mission in behalf of Jac ... More >>

Clip Job: Bobby in the Village

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 8, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 51Bobby in the Village: 'Mommy, He Touched Me'By Jack NewfieldRobert F. Kennedy evoked Beatlemania, laughter, and tears during a tour of Greenwich Village Friday night. The Democratic-Liberal Senate candidate ... More >>

Clip Job: JFK, 1917-1963

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 28, 1963, Vol. IX, No. 6JFK, 1917-1963By Suzanne KiplingerAll of us will remember where we were at 2 o'clock Friday for the rest of our lives. There is a sense in which it was not so much a public event as something which happened to eac ... More >>

"Zodiac Killer Daughter" Also Said She Was JFK's Kid

Our colleague at True Crime Report informs us that the woman who has been claiming her father was the famous Zodiac Killer -- a story TCR has debunked here -- has also claimed to be the daughter of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. TCR has this lunatic claim sourced and on re ... More >>

Clip Job: The Bourgeois Mothers' Underground!

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 25, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 14The Bourgeois Mothers' UndergroundBeatniks and bar flies are the complete population of Greenwich Village in the popular image. No one writes and no one reads about the solid citizens who raise children, belong t ... More >>

Clip Job: JFK Will Lead Tory Revival

Clip Job: Mailer's Open Letter to JFK

Battle in Seattle and Virtual JFK Ask Are We, or He, the People?

Two movies ask: Do the masses or the man make the difference in history?

Obama Conjures the Kennedys in Jersey City

Three points short in New Hampshire, Barack is still coming strong

Oswald's Ghost

Obama Time

An admitted 'hope-monger' brings down the house in Brooklyn

Dear Mister President

Five would-be assassins (and Khrushchev) in search of a narrative

Oh No, Not the L-Word: Reclaiming the Terms of Debate

Digging for the Truth Behind the Assassination of JFK

Campaign Trailers

Recounting election-year movies that attempted to swing the vote

A Look Backward

Reagan took New Dealer Demos for a ride—and he never returned them

Moonstruck

Is poetic license enough of a reason to explore the empty frontier of outer space?

Film

Lights, Camera, Exploitation

That’s Our Bush! The President’s Re-Election Campaign Kicks Off With a Shameless 9-11 Docudrama

Laundering the 'Truth'

'The Nation' Defuses a French Bombshell

Antique Nipponware

Stone Cold Warriors

The Absent Alpha

In a Race Between Two Filial Men, Women Will Decide Who Is the Beloved Son

Eyes Wide Shut

Rating Death's Value in the Age of Celebrity Hype

Saving Private Clinton

As the casualties mount, our Commander-in-Chief soldiers on

Sexual McCarthyism

Lurid revelations, crude moralizing, perjury traps: they all echo America's darkest days