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Pleasant Hill

(Encyclopedia) Pleasant Hill, residential city (1990 pop. 31,585), Contra Costa co., W Calif.; inc. 1961. First settled in 1844, the area remained rural until the housing boom of World War II.…

Valley Stream

(Encyclopedia) Valley Stream, village (1990 pop. 33,946), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island, a residential suburb of New York City; inc. 1925. Kennedy International Airport is to the west. Valley…

Michael Kennedy 1997 Deaths

Michael KennedyAge: 39 head of the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. and son of popular politician Robert Kennedy. He fell victim to the powerful family's fabled curse when he hit a tree in a…

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Biography

Kathleen Kennedy TownsendpoliticianBorn: July 4, 1951Birthplace: Greenwich, Conn. The eldest child of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy, and the eldest grandchild of Rose and Joseph Kennedy,…

Cabinet Members Under Kennedy

Secretary of State Dean Rusk, 1961Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, 1961Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, 1961Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, 1961Postmaster General J.…

Rosemary Kennedy 2005 Deaths

Rosemary KennedyAge: 86 eldest sister of President John Kennedy who was born mildly retarded. In 1941, her father, Joseph Kennedy, had her lobotomized. The operation left Rosemary in an…

Recipients of Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., created its Honors awards in 1978 to recognize the lifetime achievements of selected American…

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Biography

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedypresident's motherBorn: July 22, 1890Birthplace: Boston, Mass. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was the oldest of six children born to Josephine Hannon and John “Honey Fitz”…

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Biography

Carolyn Bessette Kennedyfashion publicist, socialiteBorn: 1/7/1966Birthplace: White Plains, N.Y. press-shy fashion publicist who was thrown into the media spotlight when she married John F.…

Oswald, Lee Harvey

(Encyclopedia) Oswald, Lee Harvey, 1939–63, presumed assassin of John F. Kennedy, b. New Orleans. Oswald spent most of his boyhood in Fort Worth, Tex. Later, he attended a Dallas high school, and…