MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 1973, a Senate vote confirmed Gerald Ford as
vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned to avoid being indicted for allegedly accepting bribes. Ford was the first
vice president to be selected under the terms of the 25th Amendment.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
(born Leslie Lynch King Jr.)
(July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006)
TIM MAGUIRE
St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C., during
President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.
John F. Kennedy’s funeral: (l-r) Mamie Eisenhower, Harry
S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mrs. Clifton Daniel (Margaret Truman) shortly after the mourning ceremony
in St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington.
John F. Kennedy Jr., salutes as the casket of this father, President John F. Kennedy, is carried from St. Matthew’s Cathedral during his funeral services.
A horse-drawn caisson carrying the body of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy passes mourners lining the
streets of Washington from the White House to
the Capitol.
Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy with their sister in
law Jacqueline Kennedy during the funeral of President
John F Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy’s flag-draped casket lay in state in
Washington, D.C.
(FOX NEWS)
On November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a military cemetery
at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War,
President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most memorable speeches in American history. In fewer than 275 words, Lincoln
brilliantly and movingly reminded a war-weary public why the
Union had to fight, and win, the Civil War.
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought some four months earlier, was
one of the single bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Over the course
of three days, more than 45,000 men were killed, injured, captured
or went missing. The battle also proved to be the turning point of
the war: General Robert E. Lee’s defeat and retreat from Gettysburg marked the last Confederate invasion of Northern territory and the beginning of the Southern army’s ultimate decline.
Rare photo discovered of Lincoln at Gettysburg.
The original uncropped photo of the speakers stand at Gettysburg.
Abraham Lincoln’s original Gettysburg Address in an Illinois museum.
