The Harvard Crimson
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The Harvard Crimson is the undergraduate student newspaper at Harvard University, an Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The newspaper was founded in 1873, and is run ent
Front page of The Harvard Crimson on September 8, 2017
Franklin D. Roosevelt during his tenure as editor
The Harvard Crimson building at 14 Plympton Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, a
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…in the paper's news article as a "Crimson editor", which, though important for transparency, also leads to characterizations such as "former President John F. Kennedy '40, who was also a Crimson editor, ended the Cuban Missile Crisis." Editorial and financial decisions rest in a board of executives, collectively…
Oval Office portrait, 1963
The Kennedy family in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with JFK at top left in the white shirt, c. 1931
Kennedy on his navy patrol boat, the PT-109, 1943
Kennedy (standing, far right) and his crew on the deck of PT 109 in the Solomon Islands, 1943