jamie: for years jennie marney correspondents with john f kennedy. y remained friends until jfk's assassination in 1963, neither dennis harkins or frances piorek who were half brothers ever met their uncle. >> i heard just whispers, he was on pt109, and kennedy was the commander. jamie: frances catching the jeaniology bug. >> i realized i know not know about my family. jamie: he is looking for any unknown relatives of harold marney, his message goes unnoticed until 2013, when brian willis, posts petition to place a headstone for marney in a veteran cemetery near springfield massachusets. >> i could not find him anywhere. honored, not even in springfield, and he was from east spring field. jamie: brian comes across frances' post from way back in 2001. >> i got a phone, and left a strange message. are you the nephew of pt109 crew member marney. >> it was stronging to get a call off the blue. jamie: in august 2013 that grave stone is placed at veteran's cemetery. idennis is thinking about those letters written to his grandmother that he has been holding

john f. kennedy pt 109 letters. >> we're start wg a 22,000 bid on the internet, now, 23,000. >> remember, the preliminary >> 45 on the phone now. 47, 500. now, 60,000. >> they had the auction people there and they're hollering and pushing. 90,000. 95,000. looking for 100. now, viem110. now, 120. 130. >> i thought, wow. 140? >> the bidding's not over. 140. now, 150. 150,000. >> 160 is the high bid. we'll say fair warning. then the final call. cñÑ6(quadfo >> that's three times more than hoped for. >> i'm glab flabbergasted. it was amazing to watch this unfold. >>,c i would hope that the successful bidder enjoys them. perhaps put them in a museum. a young man ma ultimate sacrifice for freedom. that legacy, he left for all of us. they ; letters his commanding pr writes help lighten his mother's grief and decades later, become a substantial financial boom for family he$ ió:éñ : never knew. a strange inheritance indeed. >> how hard to part with them? >> hard,fey but time. like the old pick up truck. you love it, but it'

a, theodore roosevelt, john f. kennedy -- >> john f. kennedy. >> that is correct. >> oh, my gosh. >> franklin roosevelt was the first -- let's try to limit the applause so we can keep rifling through these. franklin roosevelt was the first president to use an armored limousine. who was the previous owner of the first car they offered to him? >> al capone. >> that is correct. number seven, who was the only president to pay off the national debt? >> andrew jackson. >> that is correct. >> after abraham lincoln's death, a gang of thieves was busted for trying to steal, his hat -- >> his remains. his body. his tomb. >> we'll give it to you. his casket. number nine, president mckinley was beloved by women because of his love for his wife. >> he would put a handkerchief over her face. >> that is correct. number ten, which performer did not sing at a swearing-in ceremony at a presidential inauguration, kelly clarkson, beyonce -- >> beyonce. >> that is incorrect. >> she lip synced. it's not incorrect. >> that is a low blow. >> as a beyonce fan, t

jamie: for years jennie marney correspondents with john f kennedy. they remained friends until jfk's assassination in 1963, neither dennis harkins or frances piorek who were half brothers ever met their uncle. >> i heard just whispers, he was on pt109, and kennedy was the commander. jamie: frances catching the jeaniology bug. >> i realized i know not know about my family. jamie: he is looking for any unknown relatives of harold marney, his message goes unnoticed until 2013, when brian willis, posts petition to place a headstone for marney in a veteran cemetery near springfield massachusets. >> i could not find him anywhere. honored, not even in springfield, and he was from east spring field. jamie: brian comes across frances' post from way back in 2001. >> i got a phone, and left a strange message. are you the nephew of pt109 crew member marney. >> it was stronging to get a call off the blue. jamie: in august 2013 that grave stone is placed at veteran's cemetery. idennis is thinking about those letters written to his grandmother that he has been holdi

referred to a 1959 debate over amendments to the national labor relations act and then-senator john f. kennedy warned against rushing employees into a union election. senator kennedy said -- quote -- there should be at least a 30-day interval between the request for an election and the holding of an election in which both parties can present their viewpoints. the 30-day waiting period, senator kennedy said then, is an additional safeguard against rushing employees into an election where they're unfamiliar with the issues. madam president, it's clear to see that this rule is wrong and that is why senator enzi, senator mcconnell and i are asking the senator to dis-- the senate to disapprove it and to prohibit the nlrb from issuing any similar rule. i thank the president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: madam president i would ask unanimous consent to be able to speak for up to 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. enzi: mr. president i want to thank the senator from tennessee, senator alexander for his comments. i don't think i've

kennedy, kennedy, kennedy ♪ ken-nedy for me ♪ kennedy, kennedy, kennedy ♪ kennedy >> sabato: and john f. kennedyy, kennedy" ad that would literally drive you insane if you listen to it too many times. >> ♪ try something new >> sabato: well, in 1964, we began the era of professional television advertising that really did have an impact. >> ♪ >> mann: doyle dane bernbach was an up-and-coming advertising firm on madison avenue that was making a name for themselves with advertisements for up-and-coming firms and products that included volkswagen. john f. kennedy saw the spots and told his brother-in-law steve smith, "go find me that firm. i want to talk to them about maybe doing my advertising for my reelection in 1964." and that's how ddb came into the orbit of lyndon johnson and the dnc in 1964. johnson and the people around him, his aides and his advertising firm, wanted to portray goldwater as a dangerous man who, if he got control of the nuclear arsenal, might threaten the peace of the world. >> goldwater, jr.: the mood of the country at the time was one of worry about the soviet union in parti

. >> john f. kennedynated. >> the first unconformed reports say the president was hit in the head. >> from dallas, texas, the flash, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> as malcolm felt himself growing estranged from elijah muhammad and from the nation of islam, malcolm and the muslims in new york had planned a major event. >> the president's body is met by a cordon of servicemen. >> elijah muhammad was scheduled to speak. after kennedy's assassination, elijah was like no, i'm not doing any public speaking, and the ministers in the nation of islam war instructed to not comment on kennedy's assassination. malcolm gave the speech. he did not comment on the assassination. >> you see, it was very clear that elijah muhammad always wanted to steer clear of any confrontation. >> when malcolm opened up to question and answer, the reporter asked him somewhat his thoughts were on kennedy's assassination. and malcolm gave this really thoughtful response about violence. >> he said, when you h

like john f. kennedy did, he promised to get this country moving again. and like ronald reagan did when he cut taxes and regulation and ushered in the longest peacetime expansion in american history. there are other reasons for the empty feeling. the other candidates on both sides are in deciders. if the insiders had the answers they would have implemented them by now. i would tell you that any of the republican candidates would be a vast improvement over the incumbent. i believe in their vision of what we can do is narrow and constricted. they haven't been at the center of the on scenario economy. i have a reporter traveling the world as a businessman running the company. that has been my life. so i am not an incrementalist not a cautious a cautious adjuster of cautious changes not a compromise or with the bully state, i reject the kernel notion of the washington politician and america must learn to make do with less. and now the american people must pay that the wagon is heavy and crowded. now it is time to start throwing people off. i reject the equall

>> john f. kennedy. >> just because he's attractive, right? eagan maybe. >> you are a reagan guy? >> abraham lincoln. >> what bill is he on? >> he's not on the one. 10. >> he is on the 1. >> john f. kennedy. >> what's the f stand for? >> franklin? >> fritz. >> he was hispanic. >> fitzgerald. >> he seems like a typical dad because he was the father to the next president. >> what do you mean? >> brother or something. kennedy. wasn't there two kennedys? >> i thought there was. >> ronald reagan. >> roosevelt. >> fdr. >> delaware. >> take a wild guess. >> not eisenhower. >> that was hoover? is that the hoover guy? >> john adams. nope. >> who is that? >> that teddy roosevelt. >> oh my god you nailed it. >> good for them. >> the time is now 26 after the top of the hour. coming up he's the rapper turned isis poster boy. turns out the fbi was on him all along. just how close will leave you speechless. >> a house turning to ice moments after firefighters put out the flames. maria molina is tracking the deep freeze. >> it is tuesday february 17th. feeling

president john f. kennedyorter: just as bill o'reilly was trying to move on from a dispute over his war stories, the fox news host suddenly has more questions to answer. this time the scrutiny is being directed at an account of his investigation into john f. kennedy's assassination. he has said in his book "killing kennedy," that in 1977 a man had been contacted by congressional investigators. o'reilly a reporter for a dallas tv station, says he tracked him down in palm beach and arrived at the door of his daughter's home just as he shot himself. that account is now being called into question by several media outlets, include thing report in the huffington post. this follows a report last week in "mother jones" claiming bill o'reilly exaggerated his reporting experiences in el salvador and while covering the 1982 faulklands war. back in the '80s, he was a young spomt for correspondent for cbs news. over the past week he's denied the allegations and attacked the magazine. >> this man, 56-year-old david corn who

just over three months into his presidency john f. kennedy like millions of other americans across the country was glued to his television. >> he became an instant hero that this country needed but the fact of life is he the to circle the earth a month before and he went up and came down in 16 minutes. >> jfk south out advice from nasa's top engineers. one was vanbron. >> in huntsville alabama the president begins a tour of the u.s. space center. >> he wrote to kennedy and when he said how can we beat the russians russians? and the letter basically said we can't beat them anywhere except to be the first on the moon. and so that's what we committed to. >> may 25th 1961 the president made a dramatic announcement before a joint session of congress. >> i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> we didn't go to the moon to collect rocks. we went to stick the flag on the moon before the russian's did. >> if we didn't have the

the other candidates is raising high the banner of economic expansion and opportunity -- like john f. kennedyid with his promise to "get this country moving again," and like ronald reagan did when he cut taxes and regulation and ushered in the longest peacetime expansion in american history. but there are other reasons for the empty feeling. the fact is, the other candidates, on both sides, are insiders. and we all know that if the insiders had the answers, they would have implemented them by now. i believe any of the republican candidates would be an improvement over the incumbent. but, they have been in washington for both of their adult lives. they have not been at the center of the entrepreneurial economy. i have. that has been my life. as so i am not an incrementalist, not a cautious suggester of cautious changes, not a compromiser with the bully state. i reject the grim notion of the washington politicians that america must learn to make do with less -- that the american people have spent too much and now the american people must pay, that the wagon is heavy and crowded and now is the t

>> john f. kennedy. >> very good what's the f stand for?ng. >> francisco. >> francisco. >> he was hispanic. >> fits jeralds. >> nailed it. >> who is this? >> abraham lincoln. >> do you remember around when he was president? >> 1786? [ buzzer ] >> no, that's not right. >> do you remember who won the civil war? >> i think we won. >> who is we? california? >> yeah. >> i don't know. america? >> north or the south? >> the south? [ buzzer ] ♪ ♪ >> your boy. >> reagan. he looks sharp. >> ronnie. he acted with a lot of monkeys, remember? >> real ones? >> is there any way you could let me keep him for a while? [ laughter ] >> he just seems like the typical dad because he was the father to the next president. >> what do you mean? >> right? wasn't he brother or something? kennedy? wasn't there two kennedy's? >> bush. >> what did you guys just say? >> rose kennedys? >> bush. >> reagan. >> roosevelt. >> yes. fdr. >> what does the d stand for, do you remember? >> delaware. >> take a wild guess. >> not eisenhower. >> that was hoover. that was the hoover g

leaving john f kennedy out who put forward a dramatic rate reduction, enacted under johnson, and in the 1920s after world war i, taking the rate from 75 to 25. and under hoover, we had the collapse in the economy when we raised taxes. when we cut tax in the united states, there's. growth. economic growth is the way to get more revenue for the government, and to reduce the cost of social welfare programs by having more people work and at work. the difference between regan's economy and obama administration. regan's recovery. if president obama grew, 4% instead 4.3, 10 million americans more would be at work. >> taxes are higher. >> what are you talking about. >> income tax is higher. >> the total tax burden. >> the reduction that ronald reagan involved was greater in the beginning than president obama has been able to do or ever suggested. >> yes, and that's why we this more growth as a result of ronald reagan's policies, when rates - top rate went from 70% to 25%. >> by extension, if you don't have the top rates, can you see a repeat of what happened under ronald reagan. we can't go fro

reporter: the man was arrested at john f. kennedynternational airport trying to board a flight to istanbul. he aimed to go to turkey and across the border to syria to wage jihad with islamic state. another man was arrested at his apartment in brooklyn. another man was arrested in florida. what u.s. prosecutors are saying is that they all wanted to join islamic state to fight alongside in syria. if they did not manage to get to syria, they planned to carry out attacks on american soil. prosecutors say it includes a bomb attack on coney island, the pleasure beach in new york. they wanted to buy an machine gun to try and kill police officers. one of them even spoke of trying to kill barack obama. katty: i want to clarify that these are not american citizens. they are residents. federal authorities have been tracking them since last summer. reporter: yes. they were concerned -- alerted to them that can summer because of the online activity. they expressed sympathy with islamic state. one of them wrote, "greetings, we pledge our allegianc

but john f. kennedy didn't live to see his programs enacted. stead, on that fateful november day lyndon baines johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the united states. johnson pursued kennedy's economic proposals and pushed the tax plan through congress. how well did it work? perfectly. business week, which isn't exactly a liberal pro-kennedy publication, said it probably was the most successful tax cut in history. it came out of the textbooks. it went back into the textbooks as the fiscal measure that came closer to carrying out what people had projected for it. that was a tax cut that worked. the economic policies of the kennedy-johnson administration had stimulated demand, creating growth in the economy. business was booming. jobs were plentiful, unemployment near an all-time low. but many observers including the president's council of economic advisors were concerned about the appearance of inflation as the economy heated up. [james duesenberry] but in 1965, the real aggregate demand was rising at an annual rate of nearly 8%. it was

officers arrests the youngest at john f. kennedy airport. he was prepared to board a flight for turkey. investigators believe the old ers provided the money for plane tickets. two of the men posted sper net messages in support of the militants and contacted someone with link to the group. fbi initials and new york police officers believe they're trying to carry out terrorist i attacks in the united states. they also had plans to kill police officers and assassinate president barack obama. >> this is an ongoing investigation and among a number of investigations that we're engaged? >> the u.s. government officials say more than 20,000 foreign fighters from 90 countries have traveled to syria. they say 3400 of them are from western nations. >>> people in gaza are struggling to survive six months after a cease-fire was declared between israeli forces and hamas militants. many still have no shelter and lack essential infrastructure such as electricity and water. more than 2,000 palestinians and 70 israelis died during last year's conflict. street

senator john f. kennedy who argued vigorously vigorously for a 30-day waiting period prior to the election. as he said, there should be at least a 30-day interval between the request for an election and the holding of an election in which both parties can present their viewpoints. the 30-day waiting period is an additional safeguard against rushing employees if into an election where they are unfamiliar with the issues. unquote. again, that was a quote by senator john f. kennedy speaking directly to the need for fairness to employees. the 30-day waiting period provision he supported did not ultimately become part of the law and obviously it's not a law today. instead the nlrb adopted a practice of a 25-day waiting period in almost every case. but this caution about the need for employees to have a chance to become familiar with the issues is just as true today. employees who are not aware of the organizing activity at their work site and even those who are need to have an opportunity to learn about the union

president john f. kennedy signed the equal pay law. but 50 years later the equal pay does not exist. >> i wish i could say it was a big lie but it affects lots of women these days. >> as of 2013, the typical woman earned just 78% of what a man did. but some take issue with that number. including the heritage foundation's rowena pacha. >> once you adjust between what men and women make, you see that the wage gap all but disappears. >> one year out of college women earned on average just 82% of what their male peers earned. too blunt an analysis you say? control hours worked, education employment sector and children and one-third of that gap some 7% still exist. the question is, why? >> once you've controlled for all these other variables and literally this is a sophisticated regression analysis then it is most likely discrimination that is responsible. women tend to negotiate less aggressively than men. if they negotiate at all. that's something that the data might not be able to capture well. but it could be a significant contributor t

that was the challenge john f. kennedy gave to my generation. he did not ask how much can you get out of the system? he asked what we could put in it to make a better life for everyone. i tell you we need to take that challenge to the american people. i intend to because i see a new america. i he a new america where our schools are second to none. i see an america where health care is available and affordable to all. [applause] i see a new america where our cities and farms are thriving and prosperous. where our streets are safe to walk at night, where we have meaningful jobs for our people. and i see an america, a new america that is a showcase to the world on how different people come people lived different races, creeds or different ethnic backgrounds can live together in peace and harmony. [no audio] but we are not going to get to that new america if we have of president and the white house like george bush who thinks the threats to national security are halfway around the world when they are really halfway down our street. don't tell me we

john f kennedy wrote of his fellow bostonian that he held more important offices and participated and more in more important events than anyone in the history of our nation. during his long lifetime encompassing the american revolution the war of 1812, the early and late napoleonic age john quincy served as minister to the hague to pressure from russia, and as head of the american mission to negotiate piece with england and conclude the war of 1812 as minister to england. he england. he turned down the offer to serve in the united states supreme court and made his final journey home on his appointment of secretary of state under president james monroe. he was inaugurated the 6th president of the united states and served as a member of the house of representatives from november 1820 until his death in 1830 until his death in february 1848. in in the interim of his foreign service he was a professor at harvard massachusetts state senator, and united states senator. in the extraordinary breadth of john quincy's quincy's presidential ambitions he envisioned a great magnificent government

officers arrested the 19-year-old at john f. kennedy international airport.e was preparing to board a flight for turkey. investigators believe the oldest member of the group provided the others with money for plane tickets. authorities say two of the men posted messages on the minority supporting the militants and contacted a person with links to the group. fbi officials and the new york police believe the two men were planning terrorist attacks against the united states. officials say they also discussed other plans such as assassinating police officers or president barack obama if they couldn't join islamic state militants. >> their social media propaganda skills inspired as these injuries were inspired to travel to syria to fight. >> >> bratton said investigators are look into other people with possible links to islamic state militants. >>> russia's president is heating up a dispute with his ukrainian counterpart over natural gas. vladimir putin is criticizing petro poroshenko for cutting off the line that supplies ukraine's eastern regions. and he warned

president from george washington to john f. kennedy. >> dude. but grover cleveland was asking for it, your honor. bah. you should have seen how he was dressed. with the twirly mustache and the 18 nineties bah, bah bah. i just realized grover cleveland actually had two nonconsecutive terms so bill cosby would have had to do it twice. >> now to be fair, now to be fair, the number is chaining so quickly that there are conflicting reports on whether the total really is 34 or 35, but if the difference between 34 and 35 women matters to you please (bleep) off forever. >> really. [ cheers and applause ] >> larry: and, look guys, i know everyone is piling on cosby including me but i will tell you what, just think if cosby didn't do it. okay. we are done. >> he did it. >> what i am saying is regardless of whether cosby was innocent or guilty it seems like it is in poor taste for him to continue his comedy tour the worst place to address these allegations is from a stage look at what happened recently in a show in canada. stop it, stop it. that's right. s

made one of the arrests this morning at john f. kennedy international airport, as akhror saidakimetov was preparing to fly from new york to turkey. according to court documents he and abdurasul juraboev wanted to join isis, and if they couldn't get to syria the back-up plan was an attack on american soil. saidakimetov allegedly told an f.b.i. informangtdly" just go and buy machine gun ak-47, go out and shoot all the police. then we will go to the f.b.i. headquarters and kill the f.b.i. people." juraboev came to the attention of the f.b.i. last august when he posted a threat to the president on a militant web site. "what i'm saying is to shoot obama. that will strike fear in the hearts of infidels." u.s. intelligence estimates more than 150 americans have traveled to or tried to reach syria and iraq to join the fight. 22-year-old moner abu salha, a palestinian-american from florida, is among them. he recorded this so-called martyrdom video before becoming a suicide bomber in syria. >> we're coming and we'll dominate over you. >> reporter: h

scholars consider john f. kennedy as the most overrated president in history.n ranks eighth. i'm sure he's happy about that. ronald reagan comes in at 11 and george h.w. bush is number 17. scholars consider george w. bush the most polarizing president, followed closely by barack obama. "the post" compiled the list from surveys of more than 160 members of the american political science association of executive politics section. >>> lance armstrong lost a $10 million lawsuit. it's a fallout from his doping scandal continues. arbitration panel says armstrong has to pay a dallas-based sports promotion company bonuses he received over winning the tour de france three times between 2002 and 2004. a few weeks back mr. character himself, armstrong admitted to the bbc that he would use drugs again if given the chance. it reminds me of that "snl" exit with chris farley. i'll tell you about it when we get off the air. i'd do it again! >>> amar'e stoudemire is leaving the big apple, heading for dallas. nbcsports.com nbcsports.com cites the five-year, $100 million contract

it looks like john f kennedy's policies would not be excepted. do you agree with that? tely agree with that. a completely nutty thing to say. john f. kennedy cut taxes across the board. the economy grew. he is raising taxes on corporations. we need to cut taxes on corporations. he will make sure he won't be able to end up getting your hands on prophet overseas. after six years, we ought to see a better direction. in 2014, basically repudiating. are you saying that there is a shift that they are kind of getting it now? >> i think that they are getting it now. we are to offer a responsible budget. let the veto it if that is what they are going to do. we need to offer a forward-looking progressive opportunity budget that creates jobs. most of all, it goes back to the heart and soul of what america is. frankly, if this president does not do it now we republicans have to offer a candidate that will do it when we take over the white house. >> there needs to be more people like you say what you are saying. isis and al qaeda pushing for more attacks on soft targets. schools and

the it non-, john f. kennedy democrat. bill clinton wrote the iraqi regime change act of 1998.ll democrats voted on it -- voted for it. who is indoctrinating these people that they can just say what they want and you guys never check people? you never correct them unless it is a republican criticizing a democrat. host: this is a forum for you and others to express their opinions. there are different circumstances that led to world war ii. whether it was a democrat or republican. you're right vietnam, the democratic president. thanksgiving for the call. gilbert is next -- thank you for your call. gilbert is next. caller: let me say this. why are we over there killing those people in their country? they are no threat to us at all. before that, european's been involved in killing those folks since 1096. the crusades. the crusades, went over there to get back their christian country. they had converted to christianity after painting themselves blue and howling at the moon. they went over there to kill those people in 1096. here we are, almost 1000 years later, still killing those p

. ♪ ♪ oliver: with john f. kennedyfe in gettysburg, but it didn't start out that way. >> aerial films reveal the presence on cuban soil of offensive russian nuclear weapons. >> i was with eisenhower during the cuban missile crisis. we were working on the memoirs, but occasionally some secretary would come through the door with a note, hand it to the president, and it's the white house is calling. one time he came back into the room and said, boy, that was good, that was good news. [laughter] but he didn't tell us what the good news was. oliver: u2 photographs show that khrushchev had put missiles into cuba and was lying about it. more on the life of dwight david eisenhower when "war stories" continues. ♪ ♪ is on the calendar. introducing a new day of the week... someday... want to retire someday? you'll want a my social security account to help you get ready. get yours at socialsecurity.gov. ♪ ♪ >> i think it was hard because over time it became really quite clear that he probably was never going to go home. >> susan w

i first went met mixing just after he lost the presidency to john f. kennedyeturned to california. from 19581961 when he was vice president he wasn't present in the white house because he didn't have an office as the subsequent vice president had. eisenhower considered the vice presidency to be part of the executive branch. when it is over eisenhower got in his car and was driven back to his home in pennsylvania. they didn't get the staff and offices and all of the other perks now required. the national committee to keep eisenhower politically active someone had to answer his mail and the job that i accepted was to be paid to so many cents for each better. what he failed to anticipate was as if every schoolboy and america wanted his opinion on that national debate topic. or an autograph or just wanted to say hello. these letters are looking to become an independent writer. whenever i heard that he won an award for having marriage or death in the family i would draft a little better for him to send along and i got the nicest note arranged by the chief congressi

bay of pigs was a fiasco and propaganda coup for castro and a black eye for the new president john f. kennedy. 1962, kennedy extended the cuban embargo with the exception of humanitarian aid but not before purchasing 1200 cuban cigars for personal use. then came the cuban missile crisis and the united states and soviet union had a tense stand off over the weapons deployed in cuba. as part of the settlement, the u.s. agreed not to invade. but president kennedy imposed restrictions and preventing u.s. citizens from traveling there. and over the next few days, presidential support for the embargo waxed and waned. >> there is no fresh bread or meat on sale only goods from china and russia. >> the nation was a constant thorn in the side of the u.s. and it lent cuba a romantic mystique. and celebrities in hollywood spoke highly of fidel. and praised the socialized health care system. and bill deblasio travelled to havana for his honeymoon. but no american president from iceeb be hour to george w. bush altered the policy. and then came president obama who promised to transform america. whether or no