Jack Leon Ruby was an American nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with the murders of United States president John F. Kennedy and Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit only two days earlier. A Dallas jury found Ruby guilty of murdering Oswald and sentenced him to death. Before his conviction for killing Oswald, Ruby was involved in criminal activity, and linked to organized crime.
The Harvard Board of Overseers is one of Harvard University's two governing boards. Although its function is more consultative and less hands-on than the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the Board of Overseers is sometimes referred to as the "senior" governing board because its formation predates the Fellows' 1650 incorporation.
Theodore Chaikin Sorensen was an American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser. He was a speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy, as well as one of his closest advisers. President Kennedy once called him his "intellectual blood bank". Most notably, he was generally regarded as the author of Profiles in Courage, a claim he addresses in his 2008 memoir. The book won Kennedy the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957. Sorensen helped draft Kennedy's inaugural address and was also the primary author of Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech.
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home", sometimes "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again", is a popular song from the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.
Tommy Cash is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. His elder brother was Johnny Cash.
"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye", also known as "Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye" or "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya", is a popular traditional song, sung to the same tune as "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". First published in London in 1867 and written by Joseph B. Geoghegan, a prolific English songwriter and successful music hall figure, it remained popular in Britain and Ireland and the United States into the early years of the 20th century. The song was recorded by The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem on their eponymous album in 1961, leading to a renewal of its popularity.
Kenneth Patrick O'Donnell was an American political consultant and the special assistant and appointments secretary to President John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in November 1963. O'Donnell was a close friend of President Kennedy and his younger brother Robert F. Kennedy, and was part of the group of Kennedy's close advisers dubbed the “Irish Mafia.”
David Francis Powers was Special Assistant and assistant Appointments Secretary to President of the United States John F. Kennedy. Powers served as Museum Curator of the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum from 1964 until his retirement in May 1994. Powers was a military veteran who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II from 1942 to 1945. Powers was also a close friend of Kennedy.
William LeRoy Prince was an American actor who appeared in numerous soap operas and made dozens of guest appearances on primetime series as well as playing villains in movies like The Gauntlet and Spontaneous Combustion.
Mr. President is a musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. The story focuses on fictional US President Stephen Decatur Henderson, who runs into political trouble following a disastrous trip to the Soviet Union and his problems with his children. Bored with life as a civilian after his presidency ends, he decides to return to political life.
Herbert Hughes was an Irish composer, music critic and a collector and arranger of Irish folksongs. He was the father of Spike Hughes.
In computing, the AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System written by Marcus Comstedt.
Baton Baton Mein is a 1979 Indian romantic comedy film, produced and directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film stars Amol Palekar and Tina Munim in leading roles. David, Pearl Padamsee, Asrani and Ranjit Choudhary appear in supporting roles.
Bernie McInerney is an American character actor.
Ships in the Forest is a studio album by Irish traditional singer Karan Casey, and the first to be released primarily on her own label. The album features much of Casey's live band, as well as her brother-in-law and husband, both members of the band Buille. The album features one song in Irish and many Irish traditional songs. There is also a song by Joni Mitchell.
Paul Ryan Rudd was an American actor, theatre director and professor.
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye or Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye may refer to:
Stephen A. Rotter is a film editor who won at the 56th Academy Awards in the category of Best Film Editing. He was one of the five film editors to win for the film The Right Stuff. He shared it with Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf and Douglas Stewart.
Hearty and Hellish! is a live album of traditional Irish folk songs performed by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, recorded live at The Gate of Horn, Chicago. It was their second album for Columbia Records. In a January 1963 article, Time Magazine selected Hearty and Hellish! as one of the top 10 albums of 1962.
