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#FridayFlashback : The JFK Files, What’s Left to Know?

Published on October 27, 2017 in Non-Fiction by Jordan Foster

As we await the release of the remaining documents on the JFK assassination investigation and peruse the few pages that have been released, we have gone back through the BookTrib archives and found an interesting piece that asks the one question everyone is hoping the files will reveal: “What is left to know?” This piece from 2013 is certainly fitting for a #FridayFlashback and interesting to boot. “Once upon a time” is how fairy tales begin. Most of the time they end with the prince (maybe he used to be a frog or a particularly arrogant member of the royal family) and the princess (sometimes she had an unfortunate penchant for fruit or severe sleep issues) living happily ever after.…

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#Thursday Thoughts: 39 Inspirational JFK Quotes, One for Each Year He Lived

Published on October 26, 2017 in Potpourri by Aisha K. Staggers

Today, the National Archives will release the final documents that outline details of the the John F. Kennedy assassination. In 1963, the 35th President of the United States was gunned down while his motorcade traveled through a Dallas neighbor hood on November 22. In the years since, many conspiracy theories as to how the assassination happened and who was involved have been the focus of Kennedy’s legacy. As interesting as these are, the life Kennedy lived is far for fascinating and inspiring. Today’s #ThursdayThoughts are 39 inspirational JFK quotes about life, leadership, education and poetry— one for each year of his life. Hopefully, they will inspire you as much as Kennedy inspired an entire nation and the world. Change is…

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