John F. Kennedy

“The First Family” broke new ground for comedy by openly mocking — and impersonating — a sitting president.

The guys who brought you heavy-metal opera “Dog Days” just made an opera about the night before JFK’s assassination

NASA’s black engineers, mathematicians and technicians didn’t just help American win the space race, they also played a key role in reshaping the American South.

A simple song, sung in French, was exactly what the nation wanted after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Here is the music and the “Singing Nun” who become a short-lived global star.

The Cuban missile crisis had an epilogue that few know — the Kennedy administration was in secret talks with Cuba around a reconciliation. In current news, several women in London have been held in slavery for years, Europe contemplates its own NSA-proof cloud computing facility, and we visit Ford Nation — the Toronto mayor’s fans who insist they’ll vote for him again. All that and more, in today’s Global Scan.