John F Kennedy Articles

British politics remains suspended in animation: Leave voters sticking with the Tories, while Remain voters cling to Labour in the hope that the party will provide a lifeboat for a soft Brexit, writes Last Word columnist Robert Philpot If the most remarkable political...

The ‘paranoid style’ finds expression on both right and left of politics, writes Robert Philpot In November 1964, just a year after the assassination of John F Kennedy, a shell-shocked American public went to the polls. On the ballot paper they were presented with,...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of America’s 35th president. On 22 November 1963, John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, after only 34 months in office. His is the ‘Unfinished Life,’ in the words of his biographer Robert Dallek....

On 3 July 1976, just over 37 years ago, the US Supreme Court gave judgement in Gregg v Georgia 428 US 153 (1976). The ruling reinstated capital punishment in the United States. Four years earlier, in Furman v Georgia 408 US 238 (1972), capital punishment had been...