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Jackie Bouvier and John F. Kennedy married in Newport, Rhode Island, on September 12, 1953.

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Neptune's Car Clipper Ship.

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The Curious Case of Nuremberg’s Hangman

View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. November 1945. Public domain. Courtesy of Wikimedia.

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