The JFK Assassination: 50 Years Later

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Fifty years ago today, at 12:30 p.m., President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Two days later the chief suspect in his death, Lee Harvey Oswald, was himself shot and killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Confusion, suspicions, and accusations followed immediately and have continued to this day. Every attempt… Read more »

Say Goodbye to THOMAS, and Welcome Congress.gov

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An old and familiar, sometimes beloved, sometimes reviled government resource is reaching the twilight of its life, and like an august but increasingly behind-the-times elder statesman is about to be retired from service and supplanted by his more vigorous young progeny. For almost 20 years now, the Web site THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet has… Read more »
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