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Am I the only woman over 50 who didn't sleep with JFK - or at least claim to have slept with him? The latest kiss-and-tell memoir comes nearly half a century after the president's death: "Once Upon a Secret: My Affair With President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath" by Mimi Alford. In 1962, Mimi Beardsley was a 19-year-old White House intern when, as she tells it, she was picked out of the press-office pool to have sex with the president when Jacqueline Kennedy was out of town.

Late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien visited Boston to talk about the art of comedy and how he got started in it. O'Brien was at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library on Thursday, where he was interviewed by Boston Globe film critic, Wesley Morris. O'Brien, a Brookline native, recalled that old movies sparked his interest in show business. But his parents talked him out of it, so he focused on academics and got into Harvard. His future course was set when he became involved with the Harvard Lampoon, the school's comedy publication.

It's hard to imagine that John F. Kennedy, the epitome of endless youth, would have turned 92 this Friday. Forty-five years after his passing, memories of JFK still burn brightly, and Boston's native son remains one of the country's most beloved presidents. As another eloquent commander-in-chief and his young family evoke comparisons to the Kennedys, anyone wanting to relive the days of Camelot can still find plenty of JFK's old haunts around his hometown. Kennedy's path to the White House started from a green clapboard house with yellow trim.

Late-night TV talk show host Conan O'Brien is coming home to Boston to discuss his life and work during a special forum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. O'Brien, a Brookline native and Harvard graduate, will also discuss the art of comedy with National Public Radio's Scott Simon. Caroline Kennedy will introduce O'Brien at the forum, to be held Thursday evening. O'Brien is a member of the board of directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the honorary chair of the foundation's "New Frontier Network," which brings together young leaders committed to...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. PRESIDENT: Visitors are welcomed back to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site which celebrates the 95th anniversary of our 35th president's birth. Tours of Kennedy's birthplace and boyhood home are ranger- or self-guided, and audi players are available in several languages. May 20 from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (open Wed-Sun). Free. John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, 83 Beals St., Brookline. 617-566-7937. www.nps.gov/jofi (Text by June Wulff, Globe Staff)

WHO: Staff writer Mark Shanahan and his children, Julia and Beckett WHAT: Presidential politics primer WHERE: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum "He really doesn't look that bad. " My 11-year-old daughter was talking about Richard Nixon, who, I'd explained, lost the 1960 presidential election in part because he looked vaguely creepy during a debate against John F. Kennedy. Nixon was sweaty and unshaven, and Kennedy was, well, Kennedy. We were watching excerpts of the famous face-off - America's first televised presidential debate - at the...

John F. Kennedy Library Foundation president Caroline Kennedy celebrated her late father’s 94th birthday yesterday by joining her children ( Rose , Tatiana , and Jack Schlossberg ) and US Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus at Columbia Point for a ceremony to announce that the next Navy aircraft carrier would be named after the late president. Schlossberg and Mabus spoke at the event. JFK did as well: The library replayed his 1963 address to the Naval Academy as part of the program.

WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration is studying whether to again change takeoff and landing procedures at John F. Kennedy International Airport after a second near-collision of aircraft in less than a week. At a news conference yesterday, acting FAA administrator Robert Sturgell said a change ordered on Friday for the New York airport might not be permanent. The FAA directed a change in the way takeoffs and landings are sequenced on perpendicular runways after two passenger airliners - one taking off, one landing - came within a half-mile of each...

Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi , daughter of Nancy , visited the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Monday to screen her HBO documentary, “Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip,’’ which airs, appropriately, on July 4. Pelosi stayed for a Q&A after the screening and was joined by Roy Correia , a Bellingham resident — and new US citizen — who’s featured in the film and is originally from Portugal. Read the Names blog at www.boston.com/namesblog.

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site 's official dedication as a National Park Service location and the 92d anniversary of the birth of JFK, our 35th president. You're invited to the two-day celebration which offers guided tours every 30 minutes of the nine-room house starting at 10 a.m. (final tour at 3 p.m.), plus self-guided tours (3:30-4:30 p.m.) and cake. Pianist Deborah Wyndham will perform from 1-4 p.m. on the piano formerly played by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. PRESIDENT: Visitors are welcomed back to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site which celebrates the 95th anniversary of our 35th president's birth. Tours of Kennedy's birthplace and boyhood home are ranger- or self-guided, and audi players are available in several languages. May 20 from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (open Wed-Sun). Free. John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, 83 Beals St., Brookline. 617-566-7937. www.nps.gov/jofi (Text by June Wulff, Globe Staff)

President John F. Kennedy's only surviving child is celebrating what would have been his 95th birthday this month by honoring three Iowa judges who were ousted after the court unanimously decided to legalize same-sex marriages. Caroline Kennedy will also recognize the U.S. ambassador to Syria who risked his life to support opponents of President Basher Assad's regime. Kennedy heads the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, which promotes the late president's memory and legacy.

DES MOINES - Dr. Earl Rose, the medical examiner in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, has died at age 85. Dr. Rose's wife, Marilyn, said he died Tuesday at Oaknoll retirement community in Iowa City. She said he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and then developed dementia. The Des Moines Register first reported Dr. Rose's death. Kennedy was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital after he was shot on Nov. 22, 1963. Dr. Rose insisted that an autopsy be performed and stood in a doorway to block Kennedy's aides as...

By Michael Washburn "We have come at a most interesting time," Ernest Hemingway wrote in a February1953 letter to his friend Gianfranco Ivancich, relaying the rather callous observation of some literary tourists who had dropped by Hemingway's house in Cuba unannounced. "Just in time to see the great Hemingway cry because he has to kill a cat. " "Miss Uncle Willie," Hemingway wrote of the cat, which had been hit by a car. "Have had to shoot people,but never anyone I knew and loved for eleven years.

RE "LIMBAUGH aside, JFK tale is latest outrage in sexual politics" (Letters, March 9): How can Valerie Landry judge Mimi Alford as "abused"? Mimi Alford's complicity in her affair with President John F. Kennedy was indulged; her refusal to continue respected. In the reviews and interviews and book, she never claims to have been abused, and restates her age ad infinitum. I doubt she'd be the grand marshal in a parade in Southie leading a contingent of those who have had sex with JFK, but she wrote out of her need.

WHO: Staff writer Mark Shanahan and his children, Julia and Beckett WHAT: Presidential politics primer WHERE: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum "He really doesn't look that bad. " My 11-year-old daughter was talking about Richard Nixon, who, I'd explained, lost the 1960 presidential election in part because he looked vaguely creepy during a debate against John F. Kennedy. Nixon was sweaty and unshaven, and Kennedy was, well, Kennedy. We were watching excerpts of the famous face-off - America's first televised presidential debate - at the John F. Kennedy Presidential...

I WAS outraged by Dan Wasserman's cartoon on Feb. 15 about President Kennedy's alleged affair with a White House intern. A cartoon ridiculing the achievements of one of our country's greatest presidents should not have been published, but thrown in the trash where it belonged. Arthur Shachat

NEW YORK - The main runway at New York’s John F. Kennedy International will be closed for four months starting today. Millions of travelers will experience delays, including some not flying anywhere near the Big Apple. With about one-third of JFK’s traffic and half of its departures being diverted to three smaller runways, planes will wait in longer lines on the ground for takeoffs and in the air for landings. Delays at one of the nation’s largest airports will ripple to cities across the United States, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Orlando.