The Kennedy Space Center director didn’t mince words. “We stand at a pivotal moment,” Janet Petro told state lawmakers in Tallahassee last fall.

The Kennedy Compound has been the family's main destination for big gatherings, including summer vacations, reunions, birthdays and weddings. The estate has also been the site of

It’s Bessette-Kennedy’s mystique, her privacy—her refusal to give the public what it wanted—that so compels people. It certainly did JFK Jr., according to Love Story: “I love that you don’t feel the need to please me or anyone else,” Kennedy tells her when they reconcile after their notorious fight in Episode 5.

In a post on Truth Social, President Trump announced Friday afternoon that Richard Grenell is leaving the Kennedy Center. The arts complex is scheduled to close in July for renovations.

Jackie Kennedy wore a striking double-breasted wool pink suit on the day that her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated

Thirteen months was all it took to break the Kennedy Center. The news of Ric Grenell’s exit—or, his “plans to transition out of his role,” as Axios put it when breaking the story yesterday—suggests the end of a high period in which the Kennedy Center has continually pissed people off,

The Kennedy Center is set to close for two years on July 4.

President John F. Kennedy allegedly had multiple affairs during his 10-year marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis