John F Kennedy News

When Jack Ruby murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the world exploded with theories of a widespread conspiracy. When the Warren Commission reported on the tragic weekend in Dallas, Texas, that began with Oswald's assassination of President John F. Kennedy, those conspiracy claims were re-doubled.

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced today that one of the four 2013 Bradley Prizes will be awarded to Roger Ailes, the Chairman and CEO of FOX News.

Highlighting the depth and breadth of national and international tap artistry, Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP), the nation's premier presenter of American tap dance and contemporary percussive arts,presents Rhythm World, the oldest and most comprehensive festival of American tap and contemporary percussive arts in the world, July 22-August 4, 2013 in downtown Chicago.

JetBlue Airways (JBLU) today announced its intent to serve Port-au-Prince, Haiti with daily nonstop service from both New York City and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood. From Toussaint Louverture International Airport (PAP) in the Haitian capital, JetBlue plans to offer one daily nonstop flight to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and twice daily flights to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL), subject to receipt of government operating authority. Port-au-Prince will be JetBlue's 82 nd BlueCity with service to begin on December 5, 2013 (a).

PBS announced today a fall primetime line-up featuring a strong roster of wide-ranging programs. Among the exciting highlights will be "Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn" in which the legendary Barbra Streisand makes a historic homecoming back to Brooklyn at the new Barclays Center arena

As a physician-psychotherapist for 25 years, Dave MacQuarrie's main challenge while working with his clients was finding ways to encourage them to live authentically while completing the necessary therapeutic work given to them. Upon retirement, he discovered the ancient word acedia. He soon saw this word as the key to the psycho-spiritual state that prevents people from dealing with the crisis of climate change. "Acedia: The Darkness Within: (and the darkness of Climate Change)" (published by AuthorHouse) is a collection of his findings after the completion of a deep investigating into the ancient concept.

Vintage Theatre presents RFK - A Portrait of Robert Kennedy by Jack Holmes, starring James O'Hagan Murphy and directed by Terry Dodd, May 31 - June 23 at the Aurora Fox Studio Theatre.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents the Kennedy Center production of The Guardsman in the Eisenhower Theater from May 25 to June 23, 2013. Principal casting includes Finn Wittrock as The Actor, Sarah Wayne Callies as The Actress, Julie Halston as Mother, and Shuler Hensley as The Critic. The cast also includes Annie Funke as Maid, John Ahlin as The Creditor, and Naomi Jacobson as The Female Usher. A fresh Kennedy Center adaptation based on the 1910 comedy by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar, The Guardsman features a new translation by Richard Nelson and is directed by Gregory Mosher. The press opening is Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.

Five thrilling new works will be showcased in Pride Films and Plays Gay Play Weekend May 17 to 19 at Center on Halsted's Hoover-Leppen Theater. They include:

To coincide with the 20-year anniversary of the Ford Partnership Program, which nurtures locally based artists and arts organizations, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission presents the inaugural Zev Yaroslavsky Signatures Series. This two-concert program benefiting the Ford Theatre Foundation pairs world-renowned performers with a local artistic treasure, celebrating Los Angeles as a destination for world-class artists, who find here both collaboration with, and inspiration from, celebrated local artists.

PBS today unveiled a summer line-up that features a diverse array of new programming. A summer of intrigue presents new episodes of MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! productions.

Join John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, Donovan, Ani DiFranco, Rosanne Cash, Old Crow Medicine Show and more for a special centennial celebration of the birth of America's greatest folk singer/songwriter, Woody Guthrie. Recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., this concert honors the music and the man, with performances of 'This Land Is Your Land,' 'This Train Is Bound for Glory,' and many other Guthrie greats. Produced and directed by four-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jim Brown, the centennial concert was produced in collaboration with The GRAMMY Museum Foundation, Woody Guthrie Publications, and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

A Noise Within (ANW), the highly regarded classical repertory theatre company and a leading force in arts education, presents SUMMER WITH SHAKESPEARE, a three-week summer program for youth ages 10 to 18 which demystifies Shakespeare's verse and grooms young artists to be Shakespearean performers. On a deeper level, this camp, which runs from June 25 to July 14, 2012, at the company's new state-of-the-art theatre in Pasadena, illuminates a connection to the patterns of the human condition inherent in Shakespeare's works.

This week at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, April 29 through May 5, 2013, performances will feature: The New Yorker, Leslie Kritzer, Paris Combo, Pen World Voices: McSweeney's, Pen World Voices: Monkey Business, Pen World Voices: Languages on the Edge, Lady Rizo, Pen World Voices: An Evening with Cabinet, Talavya, Jay Brannan, Pen World Voices: Watching the Meter, Pen World Voices: Lapham's Quarterly, Gianmaria Testa, Pen World Voices: Granta 2013, and Villalobos Brothers.

Shen Wei Dance Arts will come to Houston for one night only, Saturday, May 18, at 8 p.m. in the Wortham Center's Brown Theater, presented by Society for the Performing Arts (SPA).

According to Deadline, J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot is working with Warner Bros. TV to land the rights to Stephen King's JFK assassination novel 11/22/63.

JetBlue Airways (JBLU) today announced new daily nonstop service between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and Jorge Chavez International Airport (LIM) in Lima, subject to receipt of government operating authority. Lima will be JetBlue's 81 st BlueCity and its fourth destination in South America. Sale fares for U.S.-originating flights to Lima are available today and until May 3, 2013, at www.jetblue.com/new for as low as $139 one-way from Fort Lauderdale and $199 one-way from the New York Metros and Boston, for travel between November 21 and December 19, 2013 (b).

Nunsense, directed by Catherine Doherty, runs live on stage at Northern Stage at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, VT, from May 1-19, 2013. For tickets and information, call 802-296-7000 or visit www.northernstage.org.

Acclaimed violinist Itzhak Perlman will take center stage as violinist and the podium as guest conductor to lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a program including 'Summer' and 'Winter' from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Mahler's Symphony No. 1, 'Titan.' The performances will take place April 25 and 27, at 8:00 p.m., and April 28, 2013, at 3:00 p.m., in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center.

History Theatre's 2013-2014 season will include 3 world premieres, 2 regional premieres, and 1 returning favorite. These six distinct plays and musicals will explore what it means to be an American "hero." What is promised and sacrificed when ordinary people are faced with extraordinary circumstances? What is the measure of heroism and has that measurement changed over time?