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1883: An estimated F3 tornado was reported in the Redfield/Hitchcock areas. At least one farmhouse was destroyed, and three people were killed on one farm. 1911: Actor Hume Cronyn was born in London, Ontario, Canada. 1940: The Democratic national...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Elections, Democratic National Conventions, Petroleum Industry, Politics
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Senator Ted Kennedy Dies at 77
Associated Press WriterSen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. He was 77. In...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Crime, Law and Justice, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Vietnam War (1955-1975), CBS Corp.
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Edward Kennedy dies at 77
Los Angeles TimesSen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat and icon of American liberal politics who was the last surviving brother of a legendary political family, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., his family announced. He was 77. Kennedy...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Folklore and Mythology, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Armed Forces, U.S. Army
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FBI Files: Ted Kennedy Lived With Death Threats For Decades After Brothers' Murders
Associated Press WritersSen. Edward M. Kennedy became a magnet for extremist rage in the decades after his brothers were gunned down, living under constant, chillingly specific assassination threats of his own, according to newly released FBI documents. Five years after...Tags: Boston, Crime, Law and Justice, Edgartown (Dukes, Massachusetts), Edward M. Kennedy, Vehicles
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Edward Kennedy's sons say his memoir held surprises
Top of the TicketThe late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy spent his life trying to atone for his past mistakes, say his sons.... -
Edward Kennedy dies at 77; 'liberal lion of the Senate'
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat and icon of American liberal politics who was the last surviving brother of a legendary political family, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., his family announced. He was 77.
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Ted Kennedy's milestones and missteps
![For once, the extravagant elegies for a departed public figure are appropriate. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, in President Obama's words, was "the greatest United States senator of our time," at least for those who shared his passion for an activist federal government attuned to the needs of the poor and the marginalized.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48878892-26155713.jpg "For once, the extravagant elegies for a departed public figure are appropriate. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, in President Obama's words, was "the greatest United States senator of our time,\" at least for those who shared his passion for an activist federal government attuned to the needs of the poor and the marginalized.")
For once, the extravagant elegies for a departed public figure are appropriate. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, in President Obama's words, was "the greatest United States senator of our time," at least for those who shared his passion for an activist federal...Tags: Strom Thurmond, Edward M. Kennedy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter
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Kennedy expressed remorse over Chappaquiddick in his memoir
Associated PressMassachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, in a memoir being published this month, writes of fear and remorse surrounding the 1969 car accident on Chappaquiddick Island that left a woman dead, and says he accepted the finding that a lone gunman assassinated...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, The New York Times, Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy, Vehicles
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Kennedy: Chappaquiddick Haunted Me 'Every Day Of My Life'
Associated PressBOSTON -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy wrote in a memoir being published this month that he made terrible decisions after the 1969 car crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne, but said he was never romantically involved with her and was haunted by that night for his...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Safety at School, The New York Times, Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy
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'America America' by Ethan Canin
America America
A Novel
Ethan Canin
Random House: 466 pp., $27
It's refreshing -- and almost quaint -- to see someone try to write a Great American Novel in the 21st century. These days, writers are more apt to pursue the Great American Screenplay...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Woodstock Festival (1969), Politics, Vietnam, H.L. Mencken
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Ethan Canin's "America, America"
It seems but a minor stretch—if that—to speculate that the seemingly redundant title of Ethan Canin's new novel, "America America," is to suggest that there are indeed second acts in American life. The book abounds with them, in the first...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Francis Bacon, Crimes, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Theft
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Kennedy suffers a seizure
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSen. Edward M. Kennedy, hospitalized Saturday after apparently suffering a seizure at his home on Cape Cod, Mass., was awake and joking with family members later in the day, a spokeswoman said. The Democratic senator is undergoing tests at...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Primaries, Sleep Deprivation, David Geffen, Hillary Clinton
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