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The Growing Challenge with Disability Benefits

Disability benefits are part of the social security entitlement program and increasing costs and escalating numbers of claims are causing challenges. Some economists and others question if the bad economy along with the fact that people not being able to find jobs as readily, has any connection to the increasing number of disability claims in the last decade.

JFK: The Dallas Mayor’s Committee on the JFK 50th Anniversary

President Kennedy's death would become a weight that Dallas citizens, including those born after November 22, 1963, would carry in their hearts for years to come. Did Dallas deserve the label that so many around the country and even the world gave to it: "The City of Hate"?

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JFK: The Dallas Perspective and the Sixth Floor Museum

The time leading up to President Kennedy’s visit to Dallas was volatile. Adlai Stevenson, visiting Dallas a month earlier for a United Nations conference, had been attacked by a picketer. While Dallas was known as a very patriotic city, it also had a reputation for having people with extremist views.

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JFK: The Warren Commission Report

In 1964 seven members of the President's special committee were appointed to head up the Warren Commission. This blue ribboned panel of politicians and justices were to investigate the JFK assassination, come to a conclusion, and lay the rumors surrounding the assassination to rest.

JFK: The Aftermath of the Assassination

Within 48 hours of the JFK assassination we witnessed the arrest of the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and later his shooting by Jack Ruby. The trauma of that time will be forever embedded in the memories of those who were present and those who watched and heard the news.

JFK: The Events of November 22, 1963

This episode is the second in our JFK Perspective series. Joining host, Dennis McCuistion, are guests who were at the scene of the JFK assassination on the day of the tragedy. Hugh Aynesworth: Former reporter at the Dallas Morning News Bob Huffaker: Former reporter with CBS and KRLD, Co-Author: When the News Went Live: Dallas 1963 Darwin Payne PhD: Historian, Professor Emeritus, Southern Methodist University Bert Shipp: Former reporter, WFAA- Dallas Buell Wesley Frazier: Co-worker, Lee Harvey Oswald Eugene Boone: Former Deputy Sherriff, Dallas County- 1962-1972 https://frtvvideo.s3.amazonaws.com/frtv/wp-content/uploads/2000/2105.m4v Left to Right: Darwin Payne, Niki McCuistion, Hugh Aynesworth, Dennis McCuistion, Bob Huffaker [...]

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