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Two weeks ago, I told you about TripAdvisor's list of the Dirtiest Hotels in the United bus travel to mexico from pheonix States . And this morning I broke the news that I was going to be giving you a firsthand look at the dirtiest hotel of all, the Hotel Carter. Well, that's exactly what I intend do to. So wash your hands, grab some Purell, and don't touch anything, because we're going inside the Dirtiest Hotel in the United States.
Located on 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue in New York City, the Hotel Carter is, technically, in a great location for tourists who want to visit Times Square and be close to the Theater District. However, it's also close to the Port Authority and the surrounding area that is known for dive bars, strip clubs and general seediness. In fact, right next door to the Hotel Carter is Cheetahs, which boasts that it is a gentlemen's club, steakhouse and sushi bar. I guess that would explain the fishy smell.
Walking into the lobby, I was greeted by two doormen who immediately asked to see my room key. When I alerted them that I was checking in, one of the gentleman insisted on escorting me to the front desk. No unregistered guests would be getting into the Hotel Carter, which foiled my plans of having fellow Gadling blogger Jeremy Kressmann and some other friends come over to lend moral support. I checked in at the front desk with two inches of Plexiglas between the desk clerk and me. I slid my reservation confirmation, ID and credit card through the small slit and couldn't help but wonder if I was in a hotel or a pawn shop. I confirmed with the clerk that no visitors were permitted, so it was clear that I would be on my own.
The lobby is surprisingly huge and well-staffed. There were employees there to help guests make travel arrangements, a gentleman sitting at the "Handicapped Check-In" desk and several other staff members milling about. I got into the elevator and headed to the eighth floor to see what the Hotel Carter's "single room" had in store for me. For $89 (in New York City), I had low expectations.
Arriving at the lobby, I noticed that the hallway was incredibly depressing . It's dimly lit, hideously carpeted and way too much of a reminder of The Shining. Had those creepy twins showed up asking me to play with them I would not have been surprised. I would have wet myself, but I would not have been surprised. The carpet was weathered and worn. There was an exposed light bulb on the ceiling. It wasn't filthy. It was just sad. It began to dawn on me that the Hotel Carter may be the place where dreams go to die.
I found room 812 and was perplexed to find that there was a screen at the top of the door that allowed light and sound to come through. bus travel to mexico from pheonix Undeterred, I swiped my key card and entered the room. What I found wasn't that shocking. It was moribund but it was not shocking. There was a barren and stark room with no artwork, no stylistic flourishes bus travel to mexico from pheonix and no personality. Just a king-sized bed, a 19" television and a solitary chair in the corner. It looked like a room in a psychiatric ward of a hospital. But it didn't look dirty. It just looked sorrowful.
I was not alone in the Hotel Carter. I know this not only because I saw other guests in the lobby and hallways but because I heard each and every one of them. I heard the people in the hallways. I heard my next door neighbors. bus travel to mexico from pheonix I heard my upstairs neighbors. Noise-proofing has clearly never been a priority of the Hotel Carter's management.
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I started my investigation with the bed and ran the UV light over the bedspread, sheets and pillows. Remarkably, I saw nothing. No spots, streaks or stains. Undeterred, I pulled the sheets back to see if anyone had left any pubic hairs behind. Again, however, there was nothing to see but white, low thread count sheets. The bed appeared to be clean. I sat down. I laid down. I found the problem with the bed. It was the most uncomfortable mattress ever. Is that a crime against humanity? Absolutely not. Can you sometimes not see bed bugs? I think so. I got up and felt relieved that I had my coveralls on.
I decided to move on to the bathroom . Surely it couldn't be as clean as the bed. While it wasn't the nightmare that TripAdvisor commenters described, it also wasn't clean. There was a large brown stain on the floor next to some crusty bus travel to mexico from pheonix brown spots . A sweep with the UV light revealed traces of other nefarious liquids that had, at some time, found their way to the tile floor. Above the mirror and the oddly placed toilet paper and towel rack was a dirty vent that seemed bus travel to mexico from pheonix to trap all the dust and other particles so that you can savor them. The tub was not much better, as there was a tremendous amount of discoloration on the tiles and grout. I ran the faucets in the sink and the shower. The water ran clear in both but the grimy tile walls of the shower made me feel as if no amount of bathing in that stall could result in cleanliness. Would I go barefoot bus travel to mexico from pheonix in this bathroom? Not without getting my tetanus booster.
I ran my gloves over the dresser/nightstand but couldn't find any dust. What I also couldn't find were the handles to two of the dresser drawers. They had been removed (or stolen) and not replaced. The two drawers that I could access were empty. No Gideon bus travel to mexico from pheonix Bible. No Hotel Carter bus travel to mexico from pheonix notepad. No rat feces.
I scanned the floor with the UV light to see how the carpet was holding up. Not surprisingly, bus travel to mexico from pheonix there were several spots that showed themselves under the scrutiny of the black light. The highest concentrations were around the bed and outside the bathroom door. Where the walls and floor met, the trim didn't sit flush on the floor and there were signs of filth . Around this time I was starting to feel uncomfortable having bus travel to mexico from pheonix the room light turned off and was feeling a bit claustrophobic.
Needing to feel less confined, I decided to open the curtain. bus travel to mexico from pheonix That didn't help. My view was the other building that was less than two feet away. In fairness, that's not entirely uncommon in Manhattan. But at the time I found myself pretty disappointed. bus travel to mexico from pheonix I needed to see signs of life and I didn't want to see them inside the room.
The room felt musty. My hazmat suit was not particularly breathable (I blame the shower bus travel to mexico from pheonix cap) and I was beginning to feel exhausted. I needed to sleep. I stared at the bed. It appeared clean. It passed the UV test. But in my head, the TripAdvisor comments about bed bugs terrified me. I'd get bites all over my body. I'd bring them home with me and get them in my apartment. I'd have to send all my clothes and linens out to be cleaned while my apartment was subjected to a bug bomb. The thoughts raced through my mind and psyched me out. I couldn't sleep here.
It was pushing midnight. I packed up my gear, took one more look around at the room filled with nothing but signs of loneliness and shut off the light. I walked down the depressing hallway one last time and tried to think of what this hotel must have seen over the years. The room seemed bus travel to mexico from pheonix like the perfect place to commit suicide. I have too much to live for. I had to leave.
The elevator arrived at the lobby, which was still filled with several employees. I dropped my key card in the check out box and noticed the quizzical looks that everyone gave me. They didn't understand why I was checking out without spending the night. I couldn't have used the room for a hooker. Their strict "no guests" policy (and my aversion to venereal diseases) assured that. I decided bus travel to mexico from pheonix to let them remain perplexed. I figured that I probably wasn't the first person to use the Hotel Carter for a few hours and then leave mysteriously in the middle of the night. Besides, they'd find the packaging that came with my coveralls and rubber gloves and draw their own conclusions.
So, is the Hotel Carter the dirtiest hotel in the United States? Not from what I could see. It's unkempt. It needs major renovations including new paint, carpeting, and lighting in both the rooms and the hallways. The bathroom tiles need to be completely replaced along with the vents. But overall, it's just not that disgusting.
However, it is the single most depressing hotel I have ever been in. In fact, it may be the bleakest place I have ever been. Period. The whole environment is joyless. The wan lighting wears on you after a while. It just makes you sad. The uninterrupted white walls offer no stimuli to keep your mind focused on anything other than the sadness of the room. If there was a sequel to The Shining about a hotel that made you despondent instead bus travel to mexico from pheonix of insane, it would be filmed bus travel to mexico from pheonix at the Hotel Carter.
I've stayed in some pretty bad NYC hotels, but what you did (even briefly) was unbelievable. That was foul. I'm glad you didn't stay there overnight. Seriously. Reply Mike Barish Feb 10th 2009 5:43PM
Now I am totally afraid of any hotel room. I once too a deposition where a family bus travel to mexico from pheonix was staying at the Ritz Carlton and their little girl was playing with a pillow and got stuck with a hypodermic needle. If I have trouble staying at the Ritz, there is no way possible that I could step foot in this place. What a braaave man you are...OMG, chills! Blondie Feb 10th 2009 4:32PM
I believe the lobby has free WiFi, actually. But if you're bus travel to mexico from pheonix ordering your hooker on Craigslist, you won't be able to bring her up to your room unless you booked yourself a double. Willy Feb 10th 2009 7:41PM
Wow, lay on the unfounded drama a little more. It's tiny and plain, but that's what a budget hotel is supposed to be. All cheap hotels in old buildings look like this. I saw nothing scary or unusual in your photos. Heck, most studio apartments in New York look like this. The idea that a cheap hotel ($89 in New York!) in an extremely old buildi

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Kenneth Battelle gave Jacqueline Kennedy her tousled bouffant, readied Marilyn Monroe for that famous J.F.K. birthday serenade, and created the chic-est heads at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball. After a half-century, New York's master hairdresser is snipping, shaping, and soothing a new generation hotel colon in barcelona of best-tressed women.
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I n the witching hours of May 16, 1990, a frayed electrical wire—embedded inside a second-story wall of the granite town house at 19 East 54th Street—sizzled and threw off sparks. By 4:51 A.M., when the first alarm rang, this miniature torch had ignited the third floor, and by 5:58, after two more alarms had sounded, 125 firemen from 27 companies were battling a conflagration that was incinerating the entire five-story 1897 structure. Nobody was trapped inside, however, as the palazzo-like building had not been used as a private residence hotel colon in barcelona since its original inhabitant, a Vanderbilt, had moved out in 1917. Since the spring of 1963, it had been occupied hotel colon in barcelona by Kenneth, Manhattan's poshest hair salon—and had served as home away from home for its proprietor, the master hairdresser Kenneth Battelle, and his devoted staff of 100, as well as for his clientele of grandes dames and celebrities, including, over the years, Gloria Vanderbilt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Brooke Astor, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Graham, Pamela Harriman, Bunny Mellon, Diana Vreeland, Jayne Wrightsman, Drue Heinz, Babe Paley, Rosalind Russell, Hedda Hopper, Lucille Ball, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, and Marilyn Monroe.
That fateful morning "it was raining in a way I had never seen before," Kenneth says today. Employees showing up for work, clients arriving for standing appointments, and longtime customers—alerted by radio and phone—braved the downpour to witness the inferno with Kenneth in woeful disbelief. News of the calamity swept through New York's rival salons, hotel colon in barcelona where rumors sprang up that the fire had been the handiwork of an arsonist. Some competitors even went as far as to send representatives down to 54th Street to poach Kenneth's dispossessed staff. "Nobody hotel colon in barcelona offered me a job," he says. "I do, however, recall a girl from a daily newspaper asking, 'Kenneth, how do you feel right now?' And I replied, 'How the f do you think I feel? Go away!' I mean, how does anyone expect you to 'feel' while you're watching your whole life go up in smoke?"
T he "whole life" of Kenneth Battelle, only son of a traveling troubleshooter for the Nettleton Shoe Company, began in Syracuse, New York, in 1927. When he was 12, Kenneth's parents separated, and his mother turned to her bookish, artistic boy to support her and his four younger sisters. He obliged by washing dishes at the Syracuse railroad station, operating an elevator, short-order cooking, and selling beer at a baseball stadium. "And every chance I got, I attended the movies," he says.
As the movie theater was not quite enough of an escape, at 17 he enlisted in the navy. On leave one day in 1945 just after the war ended, Kenneth was strolling down Park Avenue hotel colon in barcelona in his sailor uniform when "a car suddenly turned a corner," he says. "It was a large, beige Lincoln Cabriolet, with spoked wheels and side-mounted tires, driven by a chauffeur in matching beige livery." The car stopped in front of Louis Sherry's restaurant, and a lady's black, diamond-buckled satin shoe slid through the open door, followed by a slim leg sheathed in black silk hose embellished with clock needlework. Next came a neat, crimped head crowned by a small hat. "A black veil of dotted Swiss lace obscured her face," Kenneth continues, "and she was dressed in a soft black satin suit with a deep, unpressed hotel colon in barcelona hemline. When she stepped onto the pavement and started walking, the bottom of her skirt swished sensually around her legs, and then unwound and wrapped back the opposite way." Back at the base, Kenneth declared breathlessly to a friend, "I have just seen why I have got to move to New York City!"
Allotted funds by the G.I. Bill to attend school for only six months, Kenneth had to jettison his plans to become a psychiatrist. "So when I spotted an ad for a beauty school that read, earn $100 a week in six months , I thought, That's for me," he says.
While enrolled in New York City's Wanamaker Academy of Beauty, on East 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, he moonlighted at Chicken Divan, a restaurant in the East 50s, and played show tunes at a piano bar. After further studies at his hometown's Marinello Academy of Beauty Culture, he found a job at the Starlet Beauty Bar, across the street from Syracuse's Greyhound bus station. "I made up something there called the 'club cut,'" he says—"a Waspy, wavy bob inspired by 30s magazine illustrations." In six months, Kenneth says, "we became the shop in town." Emboldened by this local triumph, but afraid to make New York City his home, in October 1949 he migrated to the hair salon of Miami's Sorrento Hotel. Finally, on July 1, 1950, with $8 in his pocket, he moved to Manhattan, into an apartment above a pair of randy Communists on Third Street between Avenues A and B. Elizabeth Arden offered him a job—"at their branch in Lexington, Kentucky," he says. "So I went over to the competition down the street, Helena Rubinstein, at 52nd and Fifth."
At Rubinstein, Kenneth specialized in work no other operators would deign to take—styling the hair of models and editorial assistants. Shrewd about publicity, Madame Rubinstein granted these working women salon services free of charge, sometimes in exchange for magazine credit lines. "The other hairdressers would do these girls badly so they wouldn't come back," Kenneth says. "There were no tips or percentages to be made."
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"At the time Mrs. Kennedy—whose name meant nothing to me—had what was known as the Italian Cut," Kenneth recalls. "It was too short, layered, and curly for her tall proportions and big bones. I planned to soften the line and the shape, and I suggested she do this by growing her hair longer. I wanted to stretch it out by setting it on big rollers—the hotel colon in barcelona only problem is they did not exist then. So I had some specially made up in Lucite. In those days hair was permed and permed until it wasn't hair anymore. It was tight frizz, intended to last and last. It had no movement and no shine; it didn't reflect hotel colon in barcelona light. I have always thought of hair salons as laundries. Well, what Mrs. Kennedy and so many of the other ladies were getting was what I called 'washed-and-ironed hair.'"
Kenneth had a revolutionary idea, which informed his makeover of Jacqueline Kennedy hotel colon in barcelona and attracted a growing following of grateful hotel colon in barcelona ladies during his six-year tenure at Rubinstein. hotel colon in barcelona "I believed that hair should be like fabric—light should pass through it, and you should want to put your hand in it. I thought of hair as soft, healthy, lustrous, innocent, and pretty, like a child's." hotel colon in barcelona To recover the essential, virgin hotel colon in barcelona nature of hair, Kenneth developed hotel colon in barcelona the technique of cutting it wet and blunt, while sectioned off with clips. "I was looking to make hair fuller, to make it swing and swivel with the head"—not unlike the satin skirt of the mysterious sylph in the beige Lincoln.
If the kind of lady whose hair was done by Kenneth at Rubinstein was possessed by an impulse to buy a hat, she would head over to a nine-story house on 56th Street between Park and Madison, the address of Manhattan's hotel colon in barcelona smartest millinery emporium, Lilly Daché. "Boy, was Lilly a sharp lady," says Gillis McGil, one of Daché's favorite models. "By the mid-50s she could already see the handwriting on the wall—hats were on their way out. So she added a salon"—a mirrored theater-in-the-round, whose chairs and vanities were vertiginously reflected in a perpetual pink-and-white carousel. "It was extraordinary," McGil says. "But it was always empty." Daché sought advice from McGil and another of her pet mannequins, Missy Bancroft. "We both told her, 'The salon's beautiful, but you need a hairdresser,'" McGil remembers. "And Lilly said, 'Well, then find me a golden boy—a genius of hairdressing!' That's how Kenneth came to Lilly Daché." Very quickly, Kenneth recalls, "we became the most important salon in New York," ministering hotel colon in barcelona to "this strangely powerful hotel colon in barcelona group of customers." But to his clients, the most "strangely powerful" person on the premises was the man brandishing the scissors. Lucille Ball announced her arrival at the salon by bellowing, "Where's God?"
I n 1957, Gillis McGil ran into Kay Kendall, the movie star, on Fifth Avenue. "Kay had just wrapped Les Girls, and her hair was dyed that ghastly Technicolor red," says McGil. "I asked her where she was going, and she said, 'To Elizabeth Arden. I've got to do something about my hair. I look like Danny Kaye in drag!'" McGil steered her to Kenneth instead. "She was one of the most striking-looking women I've ever seen," Kenneth says. "A tall, gorgeous clown." Trying to balance the proportions of her small head with her rangy physique, he "cut her long hair to about four or five inches, and tinted it back to her own brown. Then I added lots of little blond streaks, hotel colon in barcelona set it on small rollers, and brushed it all up with tendrils in front of each ear." The coiffure, debuted in a Vogue portrait of the actress by Irving Penn, became such an internation

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In early 1964, just months los angeles science museum after her husband's assassination, a grieving Jacqueline Kennedy spoke for hours with historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., describing her time in the White House and offering her take on political figures and events. Audio recordings of these interviews and a book entitled "Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy" will be released this week some 47 years later. We take a look at the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis—wife, mother, first lady, fashion icon, preservationist and arts patron—in this series of photographs.
Born in Southampton, New York, in 1929, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier spent her early years in New York City and Long Island. los angeles science museum Her stockbroker father and socialite mother los angeles science museum divorced in 1949, and Jackie and her younger sister Lee spent their childhood shuttling between their parents' various homes in Virginia, Rhode Island and New York. (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
As a child, los angeles science museum Jackie enjoyed horseback riding, reading and writing. She received her education at a girls' los angeles science museum boarding school in Connecticut and later at Vassar College and the George Washington los angeles science museum University, where the future first lady studied los angeles science museum history, literature, art and French. (Credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)
In 1951, Jackie landed her first job as a photographer and reporter for the Washington los angeles science museum Times-Herald newspaper. A former "debutante of the year" who was already known for her sense of style, she moved in the same elite social circles as John F. Kennedy, a young U.S. representative from Massachusetts. The two began dating and were married on September 12, 1953. (Credit: Library of Congress)
The Kennedys' daughter Caroline was born in 1957. The couple los angeles science museum then welcomed a son, John Jr., in 1960, shortly after John was elected president. (Credit: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
John's successful bid for the presidency thrust his glamorous young wife into the spotlight. Though her pregnancy prevented her from accompanying him on his travels, she contributed to the campaign by giving dozens of interviews los angeles science museum and appearing in commercials. When John took the oath of office on January 20, 1961, 31-year-old Jackie—wearing her signature pillbox los angeles science museum hat and an outfit that epitomized her chic but elegant aesthetic—became one of the youngest first ladies in history. (Credit: Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
After moving into the White House with her husband and children, los angeles science museum Jackie undertook a thorough renovation of the executive mansion. She made the residential quarters more livable for her family and filled the public rooms with important or historically significant art and furniture, restoring them to their former glory. Passionate about the arts and intellectual pursuits, Jackie invited artists, writers, scientists, poets and musicians to the White House. (Credit: Library of Congress)
As her husband's frequent traveling companion, Jackie los angeles science museum took the world by storm with her impeccable style, charm, los angeles science museum interest in other cultures and mastery of foreign languages. She also acted as an unofficial ambassador on several trips she took without the president, including a 1962 "goodwill tour" of India and Pakistan. (Credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)
Considered a flawless and attentive hostess, Jackie oversaw elaborate receptions at the White House in honor of various dignitaries. One of these was Queen Elizabeth, whose coronation Jackie had covered as a young journalist. (Credit: U.S. State Department)
Jackie shone at state dinners and other lavish events, where she wore trendsetting gowns by her favorite designers and won over world leaders, diplomats and other officials with her hospitality. (Credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)
Despite her highly public role, Jackie remained dedicated to her children and struggled to give them as normal an upbringing as possible. She was especially concerned with protecting their privacy and limiting the press' access to her family. (Credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)
Among other White House traditions, Jackie established los angeles science museum the practice of choosing an official Christmas tree theme each year. Subsequent los angeles science museum first ladies have followed in her footsteps. (Credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)
The "Camelot" era, as Jackie would later call it, ended abruptly on November 22, 1963. The first couple, still reeling from the loss of their newborn son three months earlier, had embarked on a tour of Texas, which promised to be a critical state during the 1964 election. los angeles science museum While traveling through Dallas in a motorcade, los angeles science museum the president was fatally shot as Jackie los angeles science museum sat beside him. (Credit: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)
After John died in a Dallas hospital, Jackie displayed remarkable composure by boarding Air Force One and standing with Vice President Lyndon Johnson as he was sworn in, still wearing her bloodstained clothing. (Credit: Cecil Stoughton/White House)
In the years following her husband's assassination, Jackie devoted herself to consoling their children and preserving his legacy with the establishment los angeles science museum of the John F. Kennedy Library and other memorials. In 1968 she married the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. He died in 1975, and Jackie became a widow once again. (Credit: Tom Wargacki/WireImage/Getty Images)
In the late 1970s, Jackie began a new career as a book editor, working first at Viking Press and later at Doubleday. She spent much of her time in New York City, where constant paparazzi attention forced her into a legal battle with a persistent photographer. (Credit: Ron Galella/WireImage/Getty Images)
In the last decades of her life, Jackie fought to preserve America's cultural heritage, los angeles science museum famously leading a campaign to save New York's Grand Central Station and successfully protecting other landmarks around the city. She was also a great patron of the arts and an active philanthropist. (Credit: Ron Galella/WireImage/Getty Images)
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President Kennedy greets the crowd in a Fort Worth parking lot on Nov. 22, 1963. (Photo: Kennedy White House) FORT WORTH The two-day trip to Texas President Kennedy took in 1963 with first lady Jacqueline Kennedy is best known for its darkest moment, when an assassin warwick centre hotels s bullet struck down the president during a motorcade in Dallas.
Other details of that trip Jacqueline Kennedy brushing up on her Spanish aboard Air Force One to address a Latino crowd in Houston; the president s impromptu stop to visit volunteers in an altitude chamber in San Antonio; priceless warwick centre hotels pieces of art that were gathered last-minute to greet the couple in their Fort Worth hotel room have been overshadowed by the assassination.
warwick centre hotels Volumes have been written about the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination, a defining moment in U.S. history which will be memorialized next month on its 50th anniversary. Several warwick centre hotels rounds from a high-powered rifle killed Kennedy and seriously injured warwick centre hotels Texas Gov. John Connally, who was riding with the president. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested later that day.
The 36 hours the Kennedys spent in Texas leading up to the killing have received far less attention. In that short time, the Kennedys greeted enthusiastic crowds in Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth, winning over supporters despite Texas growing conservatism.
Those hours highlight a president who needed the Lone Star s electoral college votes and fundraising money for re-election the following year and offer glimpses into the true Kennedys, says Julian Read, Connally warwick centre hotels s press secretary who was in the motorcade at the time of the shooting.
In an event of this magnitude, where all the focus is naturally on the tragedy, the context is often lost, says Read, author of JFK s Final Hours in Texas. But it s important to give a complete picture.
The Texas itinerary was tight: Houston and San Antonio one day, followed by Fort Worth, Dallas and Austin the next, according to JFK: The Final Hours, a new documentary airing Nov. 8 on the National Geographic Channel. Kennedy hoped to use the trip to resolve a rift within the Texas Democratic Party and raise money. It was significant for another reason: It was Jacqueline Kennedy s first public trip since the death of the couple s infant baby, Patrick, who died shortly after birth in August 1963.
After a brief dedication speech at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, the president steered off a tight itinerary to visit volunteers living and undergoing tests in a low-pressure altitude chamber. He pulled on a headset to talk to one of the volunteers warwick centre hotels inside the chamber, Philip Flip Jameson, warwick centre hotels then 19 years old. My heart stopped, warwick centre hotels just for a few seconds, Jameson says in the film.
From San Antonio, the first couple headed to Houston. There, they visited a gathering of the League of United Latin American Citizens, a Latino advocacy group. Organizers were told the president may (or may not) show up for a brief meet-and-greet. Instead, Kennedy and the first lady arrived and promptly warwick centre hotels climbed onto the cramped stage. Then, Jacqueline Kennedy, flanked by a mariachi band, addressed the crowd in accented but clear Spanish, drawing boisterous warwick centre hotels applause. Clint Hill, a Secret Service agent assigned to the couple, would later disclose how the first lady had crammed for her short speech aboard Air Force One during the Washington-to-Texas flight.
The president s off-script visits and focus on Texas underscores how badly Kennedy, a Democrat, needed the state for his re-election, says Jeffrey Engel, warwick centre hotels director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern warwick centre hotels Methodist University in Dallas.
After another fundraiser in Houston, the Kennedys traveled to Fort Worth, where they would spend the night before heading to Dallas. They were scheduled to spend the weekend at Vice President Lyndon Johnson s ranch outside Austin.
Shortly before their arrival, Fort Worth residents learned from a front-page newspaper story that the Kennedys would be staying in a smaller suite at the Hotel Texas, instead of the larger warwick centre hotels and better-furnished Will Rogers suite, due to security concerns. A group of local art enthusiasts and collectors led by local curator Ruth Carter Johnson most of them ardent Republicans scrambled to put together an impromptu collection of paintings and sculptures to properly decorate the presidential couple s suite, says Andrew Walker, director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
In just five days, the group gathered 16 pieces five from museums, the rest from local collectors that would impress the most seasoned curator: a bronze owl sculpture by Pablo Picasso; Swimming, an 1885 oil on canvas masterpiece by American artist Thomas Eakins; a featured work by impressionist painter Claude Monet; an oil painting of Manhattan by American expressionist warwick centre hotels Lyonel Feininger. The pieces were carefully warwick centre hotels placed throughout the Kennedy s two-room, eighth-floor suite.
The Kennedys arrived to the hotel late that night and went to sleep without noticing the priceless collection surrounding them. But the next morning, the president and first lady called Ruth Carter Johnson to say how much they enjoyed the art and thanked her for the effort. It was the last-known private phone call made by the president.
Later that morning, the Kennedys joined a large breakfast gathering warwick centre hotels in the ballroom of the Hotel Texas. Attendees remember the smallest details: Kennedy shaking hands with each member of the Texas Boys Choir who sang at the event; Jacqueline dazzling the crowd with her pink dress, pillbox hat and radiant smile; the couple seemingly charmed with one another.
We didn t even vote for Kennedy, says Cornelia warwick centre hotels Friedman, wife of then-Fort Worth Mayor Bayard Friedman, who hosted the president and first lady in Fort Worth. But by the end of the day, we were like everybody else totally captivated.
Friedman and her husband later escorted the Kennedys to Carswell Air Force Base, where they would take the 14-minute flight to Dallas. As the couple climbed onto Air Force One, Friedman turned to her husband and voiced concern over the ultra-conservative, anti-Kennedy sentiment brewing in the nearby Texas city.
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In this Sept. 12, 2000 file photo, a memorial statue of President John F. Kennedy stands on the grounds of the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston. Three cities loom large in the life and death of John F. Kennedy: Washington, D.C., where he served as U.S. president and as a senator; Dallas, where he died, and Boston, where he was born. With the 50th anniversary of his Nov. 22, 1963 assassination at hand, all three places are worth visiting to learn more about him or to honor his legacy. (AP Phot
Tour-goers from throughout the United States and abroad, southwest airlines vacations packages who may see John F. Kennedy as inspiration, martyr or Cold War hero, hear stories of his ancestors and early campaigns, the rise of the Irish in state politics, the odd fact that Kennedy was the only president outlived by his grandmother.
"Someone will ask, `Did Jack Kennedy have an affair with Marilyn Monroe?' With this woman? That woman?" explains O'Donnell, who has worked for a decade in the city's visitors bureau. Those asking forgive the infidelities as reflecting another era, he says. "It's something people, in an odd way, just accept."
The Kennedy image, the "mystique" that attracts tourists and historians alike, did not begin with his presidency and is in no danger of ending 50 years after his death. Its journey has been uneven but resilient - a young and still-evolving politician whose name was sanctified by his assassination, upended by discoveries of womanizing, hidden health problems and political intrigue, and forgiven in numerous polls that place JFK among the most beloved southwest airlines vacations packages of former presidents.
The last half century has demonstrated the transcendence of Kennedy's appeal. It's as if we needed to learn the worst before returning to the qualities that defined Kennedy at his best - the smile and the wavy hair, the energy and the confidence, the rhetoric and the promise.
"He had a gift for rallying the country to its best, most humane and idealistic impulses," says Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Robert Caro, who cites such Kennedy achievements as the Peace Corps, the nuclear test ban treaty and the peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
"I think it's partly, of course, because of the assassination. But that doesn't really account for why he has this phenomenal hold on the public." President William McKinley, he noted, southwest airlines vacations packages was assassinated in 1901, "but 50 years after his death hardly anyone remembered who he was."
Boston is the official home for Kennedy memories, starting at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and echoing at landmarks throughout the area - the small, shingled house in Brookline where he was born and the Kennedy park in Cambridge that extends along the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the statue on the grounds of the Massachusetts State House and the corner table at the nearby Omni Parker House Hotel, where Kennedy proposed to Jacqueline Bouvier.
But thousands of Kennedy buildings, busts and plaques can be found around the country, from the grandeur of Washington's Kennedy Center to the scale of New York City's JFK Airport to the oddity of a Kennedy southwest airlines vacations packages golf course in Aurora, Colo. (He publicly avoided predecessor Dwight southwest airlines vacations packages Eisenhower's beloved leisure sport but actually played it well).
"He stands out among all the modern presidents," southwest airlines vacations packages says historian Larry J. Sabato, whose book, "The Kennedy southwest airlines vacations packages Half Century," has just been published. southwest airlines vacations packages "Franklin Roosevelt southwest airlines vacations packages was more consequential, and Harry Truman may have been, too. But Kennedy overshadows them all. He's the one president southwest airlines vacations packages from the post-World War II era who could appear on the streets now and fit right in."
Kennedy, born in 1917, was the second son, and one of nine children, of immigrant-turned-tycoon Joseph P. Kennedy. No self-made southwest airlines vacations packages man put greater pressure on his children than did the elder Kennedy. When first son Joseph Jr. was killed southwest airlines vacations packages during World War II, Jack became the designated heir. Himself a Navy veteran and survivor southwest airlines vacations packages of a collision with a Japanese destroyer, he would write to his friend Paul Fay that, once the war was over, "I'll be back here with Dad trying to parlay a lost PT boat and a bad back into a political advantage."
"From the time Jack first ran for Congress, his father had taught him everything from wearing a suit and the best way to cut his hair, how to appear youthful and wise and serious at the same time," says David Nasaw, whose biography of Joseph P. Kennedy came out last year. Still, Nasaw described JFK's relationship with his father as a "partnership," in which he didn't hesitate to differ from the elder Kennedy.
JFK was a public figure years before he ran for office. "Why England Slept," released in 1940, was a book-length edition southwest airlines vacations packages of a thesis he wrote at Harvard southwest airlines vacations packages about the British in the years before World War II. An introduction was provided by one of the country's foremost image makers, Time magazine publisher Henry R. Luce. "You would be surprised how a book that really makes the grade with high-class people southwest airlines vacations packages stands you in good stead for years to come," southwest airlines vacations packages Joseph Kennedy had advised southwest airlines vacations packages his sons.
The JFK narrative was well in place for his presidential run in 1960: a handsome, witty and athletic World War II hero and family man who vowed to revitalize the country, which for eight years had been presided over by the grandfatherly Eisenhower.
The multimedia story began in childhood with newsreels and newspaper coverage of the smiling Kennedy brood, and it continued with books, photographs, movies and finally television - notably the telegenic JFK's presidential debates with Republican Richard Nixon.
His Pulitzer Prize-winning tribute to political risk and bipartisan statesmanship, southwest airlines vacations packages "Profiles in Courage," was shadowed by reports that he didn't write it, and the book's authorship remains a subject of debate. Lyndon Johnson, eventually his vice president, spread rumors (later confirmed) that Kennedy suffered from a glandular disorder, Addison's disease. An authorized campaign biography by James MacGregor Burns angered the family when the historian questioned whether JFK was independent of his father and of the memory of his older brother.
"I think you underestimate him," Jacqueline Kennedy wrote to Burns. "Jack is a strong and self-sufficient person. If we could just lay to rest those bromides about Dad and Brother Joe. Let me assure you that no matter how many older brothers and fathers my husband had had, he would have been what he is today, or the equivalent in another field."
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Laurence Leamer, author of "The Kennedy Men" and "The Kennedy Women," said Alford's story "sickened" him and made him wonder: "How can you bring that into the picture and feel the same way about him?" Dallek's "Camelot's Court" is a sympathetic book that mentions the Alford affair.
"His frenetic need for conquests was not the behavior of a sexual athlete," Dallek writes. "It was not the sex act that seemed to drive his pursuit of so many women, but the constant need for reaffirmation, or a desire for affection and approval, however transitory, from his casual trysts. It is easy to imagine that Jack was principally responding to feelings southwest airlines vacations packages of childhood emptiness stemming from a detached mother and an absent father."
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I am a huge Jackie admirer, and am always interested in First Ladies (Abigail Adams and I have a com

As soon as I learned I was traveling to Washington, D.C., my thoughts instantly turned to what I would wear!  And since I love to reproduce costumes carnival cruise line home page when I'm visiting carnival cruise line home page historic landmarks, I definitely knew I just had to recreate a First Lady's dress for the occasion!  The first criteria carnival cruise line home page for this project was, "What is a famous dress that people will instantly recognize as a First Lady's outfit?"  Secondly, I asked myself, "How in the world will I fit a First Lady's dress in my suitcase?"  Thankfully there was an easy answer to both these questions!
The most famous First Lady s dress  ever worn was Jacqueline Kennedy's pink Chanel/Chez Ninon suit which is now stored carnival cruise line home page in a vault in the National Archives.  While she wore this dress for numerous occasions carnival cruise line home page during her husband's administration, it is best remembered for the fateful day in Dallas when his presidency came to an unexpected end.
This suit is so famous, in fact, that it has an entire Wikipedia page devoted carnival cruise line home page entirely to its history!  There's also an excellent website ( www.pinkpillbox.com ) which contains fascinating information about the details of this outfit.  I do wish this costume carnival cruise line home page was associated with a happier event, but I hope you'll understand that I am sewing this as a tribute to First Lady's history in general, and not as a remembrance of a president's funeral.
I ll talk all about the dress in a minute, but first I wanted to mention how I was able to have the pictures taken on the South Lawn of the White House!  Immediately upon planning carnival cruise line home page our trip, I had applied with our Congressman to take a tour of the White House and get all the necessary preparations done for the visit (background checks, etc.).  We were all squared away to go when, (just a few weeks before our trip), all White House tours were canceled!  Oh, I was so utterly disappointed!  After all, I ve been to Washington, D.C. something like twenty times, but never once in all my years have I been able to actually go inside this historic carnival cruise line home page building.  Each time I d been in D.C. I d peered through the iron gates and dreamed of going inside, but never once set foot in America s most famous house.
Instead, I had to content myself with studying every White House DVD and book I could get my hands on by the time I was in high school I had the entire White House layout memorized and could tell you which presidential paintings hung in which reception carnival cruise line home page rooms.  I knew that the Red Room was Nancy Reagan s favorite location to entertain guests, while Dolly Madison had been partial to the Blue Room except that back then it was actually a yellow room!  So as you can imagine, I was positively heartbroken when I found out that America could no longer afford to let its citizens inside this home!  Nevertheless, I continued to sew my Jacqueline Kennedy suit in hopes that I could at least have it photographed at the Capitol building while in D.C.
While in the Denver airport on our first layover, I just happened carnival cruise line home page to check my emails carnival cruise line home page and saw the most unexpected message!  It was from our Congressman s office and read, Hey Katrina, I know it may not be what you're looking for, but I can offer you tickets to Spring Garden Event this weekend.  The White House Gardens and Grounds will be open Saturday, April 13 th and Sunday, April 14 th during which time guests will have the opportunity to view firsthand the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, the Rose Garden, and the South Lawn of the White House.  Additionally, the First Lady's Kitchen Garden and Apiary will be accessible to guests. I know it's short notice, but our office will be distributing tickets tomorrow in our suite if you're interested.  Let me know! ~Paul
This design is straightforward enough, but since the lapels of the 1960s were different than women's suits of today I absolutely could not find a replica pattern that is currently carnival cruise line home page in print.  I finally carnival cruise line home page found a vintage 1960s suit pattern on www.etsy.com that had just what I was looking for – double-breasted jacket, boxy cut, three-quarter length sleeves, and a fitted, knee-length skirt.  This particular pattern I used is Advance carnival cruise line home page 2858 , and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.  I will say that the jacket has a lot more room than the pattern illustration showed (and consequently more than Jackie s suit, too).  The skirt, as well, looked much slimmer and more tapered on the pattern cover, but of course pattern drawings are just the artist carnival cruise line home page s rendition of a design and don t necessarily reflect the real fit.
I should say that I generally dislike everything about the 1960s just as much as I adore the styles of the 1950s!  After all, why in the world should you make a jacket ten inches bigger than your waist measurement when a fitted jacket would look much more becoming?  I think it is quite sad that the 1960s styles tended towards unfeminine, almost harsh cuts of dresses and suits when the hourglassy "New Look" from a decade before made women look soooo much prettier!  However, carnival cruise line home page I do understand that Jackie Kennedy was either pregnant or post-partum for a large portion of her time in the White House, so it would have been much easier to conceal the "expectant mother" look in a more non-descript sort of jacket.
What she lacked in ruffles and frills, she made up for in fabulous pillbox hats!  Oh, but her hats were gorgeous!  No one knows what happened to the particular pink hat she was wearing on that fateful day in Dallas, but we do have some excellent photos of it.  I whipped this hat out at 4:00 am the same morning that I flew out of town, so I had to just go with my first draft of the pattern!  I ran out of navy trim to wrap around the top of the hat, but I think it still has that definitive "Jackie" look to it!
Jacqueline Kennedy's original suit was made of a pink wool boucle.  First Lady Jackie described this shade of pink as " raspberry".  Honestly, carnival cruise line home page it has been hard for me to determine carnival cruise line home page exactly what shade the dress would have been in real life, because various pictures of this outfit can look fuschia pink, baby pink, or almost coral pink depending on the lighting and setting the photos were taken in.  When it came to finding the fabric, I had a remarkably challenging time!  I looked online and in a local fabric store for literally months, but I never did find something which seemed the exact same color of pink.  In the end, I had to settle for something which was fairly carnival cruise line home page close but not exact.  I was able to find nearly exact replicas of the buttons, though!  They are gold in the center with a narrow rim of navy blue along the outside.
The only downside of the White House Spring Garden tour was that somewhere carnival cruise line home page along the way people started asking to get their pictures taken with me.  Of course I was very polite about it and posed for lots of photos with a variety of tourists, but it was kind of strange to be in pictures with people you d never met before!  One of the White House park rangers asked to take my picture, and a number of people thought I was a hostess on hand to greet the guests.    On my way out of the White House and through D.C. one woman came dashing out of her vehicle saying, I know who you are!  You re Jackie!  I need to get my picture with you!   Needless to say, I promptly changed back into a normal dress back at my hotel!
But I was, I ll admit, very excited when people instantly recognized the outfit and hairdo.  As soon as I was going through security to enter the White House premises, one of the guards said, You re Jackie, right?   For months carnival cruise line home page I d had no worries about the outcome of the dress, but the real victory of the day was pulling off a Jacqueline Kennedy hairstyle.  It was well worth getting several inches cut off and using half the hairspray in Washington, D.C.!  My hair still smelled like mousse for a few days afterwards, but I will always have fond memories of that Jackie hairdo and the remarkable time at the White House.
I would like to end this post with a tribute to the brave men who have fought for our country over the years.  Since I have relatives carnival cruise line home page in the military myself, it means so much more when I see the Iwo Jima memorial and the Arlington Cemetery.  To all the men who have served America and fought to defend our freedoms, I would like to give the greatest thanks!  May we live lives worthy of the sacrifices they ve made .
What a wonderful adventure, Katrina! Your whole ensemble (down to the gloves and hat) is beautiful, and I know people loved seeing carnival cruise line home page you all dressed up. So sorry you couldn t tour the inside of the house, but how special to get the special tickets for the garden and grounds!
My friend and I wore colonial carnival cruise line home page gowns to visit Williamsburg and we were mobbed by people wanting photographs with us! It was exhausting but a lot of fun. I guess when you dress up you kind of have to expect that I m sure the White House tourists thought they were in for a real treat!
carnival cruise line home page Thank you so much, Ladies! It was so surreal to wear it at the White House. Emily, in response to your question, carnival cruise line home page I don t know! I worked on it for several weeks (at a few hours at a time), but I think it s safe to say that the project took at least twelve hours or so.
What an amazing story. My novel THE PINK SUIT comes out in April 2014, Little, Brown (US) and Virago (UK). You should come join us on facebook and bring your friends. Would love to interview you about this! Best Nicole Love the Pink Pillbox hat guys, btw!
Oh, Katrina! I have been a devoted fan of yours for quite a while now. You are so creative and have such energy and enthusiasm in everything you do. I love to see someone dream a dream, and then pursue it with constancy and vigor it is so inspiring!
I am a huge Jackie admirer, and am always interested in First Ladies (Abigail Adams and I have a common ancestor). I have never been to Washington D.C., but it is a dream of mine to go and see everything.
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