Event class: president, kennedy, john, king, f., washington, white house, martin, luther, assassination

Events with high posterior probability

Peter M. Rhee	On January 12, 2011, Rhee was met with cheers as he arrived at the McKale Center, while still dressed in scrubs and a white coat from the medical center, for a memorial speech by U. S. President Barack Obama.
Strom Thurmond	In 1983, he supported legislation to make the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. a federal holiday.
Jesse L. Brown	In 1937, he wrote a letter to U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in which he complained of the injustice of African-American pilots being kept out of the U. S. Army Air Corps, to which the White House responded with a letter saying that it appreciated the viewpoint.
Carl Rowan	In the late 1950s, Rowan covered the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement in the South, including the historic Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1955, resulting from Rosa Parks's refusal to relinquish her bus seat to a white passenger.
John Carl Warnecke	President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and Warnecke was chosen by Mrs. Kennedy to design the president's tomb just six days later on November 28.
John Jay Hooker	Politically, he kept up his connection with Bobby Kennedy and other members of the Kennedy political family, and was greatly saddened when RFK was assassinated in 1968.
Arthur Naftalin	He attended the 1963 March on Washington and was present at Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous'' I Have a Dream'' speech.
Odetta	Many Americans remember her performance at the 1963 civil rights movement's March on Washington where she sang'' O Freedom.''
Thomas Braden	During John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign, she reportedly ghosted a weekly newspaper column, Campaign Wife, for Jacqueline Kennedy, who could not understand the respect of her husband and brother-in-law, Robert F. Kennedy, for Braden's opinions.
John F. Kennedy	However, impelled by the civil rights demonstrations of Martin Luther King, Kennedy in 1963 proposed legislative action.
Elizabeth Keckley	Elizabeth Keckley met Mary Todd Lincoln on March 4, 1861, the day of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration.
George W. Romney	NAACP march, 600-strong, in protest of -LSB- -LSB- housing discrimination, June 1963 -RSB- -RSB- When Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Detroit in June 1963 and led the 120,000-strong Great March on Detroit, Romney designated the occasion Freedom March Day in Michigan, and sent state senator Stanley Thayer to march with King as his emissary, but did not attend himself because it was on Sunday.
Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie	On 7 May 2007, she attended a state dinner at the White House, hosted by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush.
Andrew Johnson	On February 22, 1866, Washington's Birthday, Johnson gave an impromptu speech to supporters who had marched to the Executive Mansion (as the White House was still formally known) and called for an address in honor of the first president.
Levi Olan	When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963, Olan used his sermons and radio broadcasts to accuse the city of complicity due to the popular stream of vitriol aimed at Kennedy prior to his visit.
Alfred C. Baldwin III	Alfred Baldwin said under oath in his congressional testimony that five days earlier than that, on the afternoon of May 26, 1972, he had been introduced by McCord to both Liddy and E. Howard Hunt in the first room McCord had rented, room 419 of the Howard Johnson's.
Earl Cunningham	In 1961 he sent a painting titled'' The Everglades'' to Jacqueline Kennedy that is on display at John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston.
Phil Driscoll	He performed at Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993, and at the 1993 lighting of the National Christmas Tree, and sang and played'' America the Beautiful'' at the dedication ceremony for the Clinton Presidential Center presidential library in Little Rock.
John N. Norton	She was riding in the motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated.
Ruth Paine	Ruth Paine drove Marina Oswald to New Orleans when the Oswalds moved there in May 1963 and back to Dallas when they moved again in September 1963.
Nancy Pelosi	In her outgoing remarks as the 60th Speaker of the House, Pelosi noted that she had been present at John F. Kennedy's inaugural address as President in January 1961.
George Smathers	Smathers was said to have been the only person present at the 1953 Newport wedding of John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier who was a member of neither the Kennedy nor Bouvier families.
Gleb Ilyin	In January 1930, the artist was invited to The White House to paint the portrait of Lou Henry Hoover, the wife of the U. S. president, her first portrait as the First Lady.
Hubert Humphrey	While President John F. Kennedy is often credited for creating the Peace Corps, the first initiative came from Humphrey when he introduced the first bill to create the Peace Corps in 1957 -- three years prior to JFK and his University of Michigan speech.
Lee Marmon	In 1972, Marmon was commissioned by then President and Mrs. Richard Nixon for a White House photo collection of tribal pottery from New Mexico.
Alexander Peloquin	1968 - Peloquin collaborated with poet Thomas Merton on his composition Four Freedom Songs in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King and was first performed at Ebenezer Baptist Church, as a tribute to King just months after his death.
Lloyd Bentsen	He appeared in the summer of 2004 at the portrait unveilings at the White House of former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Coretta Scott King	Coretta Scott King attended the state funeral of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973, as a very close friend of the former president.
Randall Robinson	thumb | right | 250px | A photo of Randall Robinson and his wife at the 1994 inauguration ceremony of Haiti an President -LSB- -LSB- Jean-Bertrand Aristide. -RSB- -RSB-
Richard Nixon	Nixon addressed the Oxford Union regarding Watergate : Deng Xiaoping and U. S. President Jimmy Carter at the White House, 1979.
Bernadette Peters	On March 8, 2009, she helped celebrate the last birthday of Senator Ted Kennedy (singing'' There Is Nothin' Like a Dame'') in a private concert and ceremony held at the Kennedy Center, hosted by Bill Cosby, with many Senators, Representatives, and President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama in attendance.
Harry Reasoner	Reasoner took part in covering the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963.
Pl?cido Domingo	On 29 August 2009, he sang Panis Angelicus at the funeral mass of Senator Ted Kennedy in the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston, Massachusetts.
Leonard Firestone	In January 1977, former President Ford and Betty Ford move into home next to Firestone at Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage, which later lead to the foundation of the Betty Ford Center.
Mary J. Blige	Blige returned to performing in January 2009 by performing the song'' Lean on Me'' at the Presidential Inauguration Committee's,'' We Are One : The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial''.
Tom Pendergast	In 1945, Vice President Truman shocked many when, a few days after being sworn in and a few weeks before Truman succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt as President, he attended the Pendergast funeral.
Frank W. Rollins	New research shows that Rollins and Senator John Weeks collaborated on the founding of the National Forest Act of 1911, signed by the President William Howard Taft.
Mary Moorman	300px | thumb | Polaroid photo by Mary Moorman taken a fraction of a second after the fatal shot (detail) On November 22, 1963, U. S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Richard Alatorre	In 1960 he heard John F. Kennedy speak at East Los Angeles College and began handing out Kennedy fliers and became involved in the campaign of Leopoldo Sanchez, a Latino candidate for judge.
Lola Astanova	Astanova had her US debut in 2004 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
Wilson Homer Elkins	Theodore McKeldin (right) presents Elkins (left) a copy of his book at the opening ceremony of -LSB- -LSB- McKeldin Library in 1958. -RSB- -RSB-
Jeffrey Alfred Legum	In 1981, Legum gained coast-to-coast attention when he was recognized on national television for lending Cadillacs to president-elect Ronald Reagan for his Inaugural Parade in Washington, D. C. During that same year, Legum purchased H&H Datsun Dealership and relocated the franchise to Legum's Chevrolet facility, with Chevrolets and Nissans placed on the same showroom floor.
John Conyers	After Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968, Conyers introduced the first bill in Congress to make King's birthday a national holiday.
Michael Sampson	Trick or Treat (2002) By Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson.
George Proctor Kane	Despite his politics, Kane was instrumental in providing protection and an escort for Mary Todd Lincoln on her arrival in Baltimore in February 1861 on her way to the inauguration of her husband, who had preceded her.
Thomas Solomon	He is the first escape artist to be profiled in The New York Times < The New York Times, Sunday, March 18, 2012, Metropolitan section, page 2 > He is the''''' only''''' escape artist to have performed twice at''' The White House''' for Presidents Ronald Reagan and later George HW Bush.
Albert E. Jenner, Jr.	In 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Jenner to the U. S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, which Johnson established in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy to study the causes of violence in the U. S. 1968 also saw Jenner argue his first major case at the U. S. Supreme Court, Witherspoon v. Illinois.
Miller Williams	In 1997, President Bill Clinton selected Williams to read his poem'' Of History and Hope'' at Clinton's second inauguration, instantly bringing Williams to national attention.
Louise Shropshire	Lyrics to We Shall Overcome : : We Shall Overcome, We Shall Overcome, We Shall Overcome Someday : Deep in My Heart, I Do Believe, We Shall Overcome Someday In 1962, through her close friend, civil rights hero, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Louise Shropshire met Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Thomas S. Estes	On November 21, 1963, Estes and Charles Darlington were the last White House appointments before Kennedy's assassination the next day in Texas.
Ruby Elzy	Elzy entertained at the White House, December 15, 1937, for First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's luncheon for the wives of U. S. Supreme Court Justices.
Andrei Cherny	President Clinton used several of Cherny's lines in his 1997 inaugural address and hired the twenty-one-year-old Cherny ten days later.
Jack Valenti	Valenti served as liaison with the news media during the November 22, 1963 visit of President John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson to Dallas, Texas, and Valenti was in the presidential motorcade.
Richard Wayne Dirksen	His music has been regularly featured on Christmas at Washington National Cathedral, televised nationally on Christmas Day, as well as the September 11 Memorial Service held at the Washington National Cathedral on September 14, 2001, which was attended by all living presidents but one and viewed on television by much of the world.
Don Everhart	He also modeled a commemorative coin for the Royal Norwegian Mint thumb | 370px | rdsdgsight | Bill Clinton | President William Clinton Second Inauguration Medal, Don Everhart Everhart's medallic portrait of President William Clinton was chosen over other artists portraits for Clinton's Second Inaugural Medal, 1997.
Ren?e Fleming	We Are One : The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.
J. Irwin Miller	He led religious delegations that met with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to push for the legislation that became the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Ted Gold	By the beginning of August 1967, Gold felt that the African-American ghetto rebellions of that summer meant that the mass of African-American people had outgrown Martin Luther King's pacifist political line and were moving more in the direction that Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and the SNCC had predicted people would move.
Josh White	In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Carol would appear as a guest on Eleanor Roosevelt's television talk show ; and in 1982, she was a featured speaker at the Smithsonian Institution's 100th Anniversary Celebration of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birth in Washington, while her son, Josh White, Jr., performed a musical program of songs his father had presented at one of his White House Command Performances.
Charlie Brotman	Brotman has been behind the microphone for every inaugural parade in Washington, DC, since 1957, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in for his second term.
Caroline Kennedy	She also represented her family at the dedication of the Bill Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas in November 2004.
Jody Watley	Watley earned an invitation by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 to perform this song at the White House.
Barbara Prey	In 2003, Prey was commissioned by the President and First Lady of the United States, George and Laura Bush, to paint the official White House Christmas Card.
Arnold Schwarzenegger	In 2011, Schwarzenegger completed his second term as governor, and it was announced that he had separated from Maria Shriver, his wife for the last 25 years, and a member of the influential Kennedy family, as a niece of the late Democratic US President John F. Kennedy.
Ed Bacon (episcopal priest)	In 1967 while a student at Mercer, Bacon had a chance encounter with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the baggage claim in the Atlanta airport.
Richard Thomas (actor)	Thomas was seven when he made his Broadway debut in Sunrise at Campobello (1958) playing John Roosevelt, son of future U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Kate Walsh (actress)	In January 2009, she spoke at the Planned Parenthood Presidential Inauguration Brunch in Washington, D. C.
Jessica Sanchez	On April 1, 2013, Sanchez sang'' The Star-Spangled Banner'' for U. S. President Barack Obama at the White House for an Easter egg hunt.
Rick Warren	During the 2008 United States presidential election, Warren hosted the Civil Forum on The Presidency at his church with both presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama.
Ron Sims	During his first term, he and fellow Councilman Bruce Laing successfully led a campaign to have the county rededicate its name in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., a change not officially recognized by Washington State until July 25, 2005).
Billy Graham	On April 25, 2010, President Barack Obama visited Rev. Graham at his home in Montreat, North Carolina where they `` had a private prayer.''
Ingrid Mattson	Further, Mattson was a prayer leader in President Obama's first Inaugural National Prayer Service at Washington's National Cathedral on 2008.
John Davey (tree surgeon)	For example, in 1920, he received acclaim from such clients as The White House, The Naval Academy, and innovators and entrepreneours Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller and William Wrigley.
Anna Chennault	In the U. S. she received presidential appointments from U. S. President Richard Nixon to the President's Advisory Committee for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the U. S. National Committee for UNESCO (from 1970).
Pare Lorentz	Roosevelt was impressed with the articles and the book, and in 1936, as President of the United States, invited Lorentz to make a government-sponsored film about the Oklahoma Dust Bowl.
Robert L. Gordon III	Gordon worked with Ross Cohen, a fellow Princeton Woodrow Wilson School graduate, to create over 30 partnerships across the country that were inaugurated by First Lady Michelle Obama, and Dr. Jill Biden, on Veterans Day, November 11, 2009.
Noah Brooks	After the death of his wife in 1862, Brooks moved to Washington, D. C. to cover the Lincoln administration for the Sacramento Daily Union.
Nelson Rockefeller	Robert Dole, -LSB- -LSB- Nancy Reagan 1976 Republican National Convention along with (left to right) Robert Dole, -LSB- -LSB- Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Susan Ford and Betty Ford. -RSB- -RSB-
Ralph Wilson	In November 1963, Wilson lobbied successfully to have AFL games postponed the Sunday after President John F. Kennedy's assassination ; NFL games were played as scheduled.
Don Scott (Ontario author)	Scott played a significant role in organizing a symposium on John F. Kennedy in Sudbury in 1993.
Meadowlark Lemon	right | thumb | 200px | Meadowlark Lemon (left) meeting Betty Ford, during a 1974 visit to the -LSB- -LSB- White House. -RSB- -RSB-
Milton Grafman	# On September 23, 1963, Grafman and other Birmingham religious leaders met at the White House with President John F. Kennedy to discuss the extremely troubled situation in Birmingham.
Gillespie V. Montgomery	In 1991 Montgomery stood behind president George Bush at the signing of the Agent Orange Act.
Henry Huttleston Rogers	Around 1894, Rogers attended one of Booker T. Washington's speeches at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Walter Reuther	He stood beside Martin Luther King Jr. while he made the'' I Have A Dream'' speech, during the 1963 March on Washington.
Jack Crichton	Crichton recalled how 1964 brought two new names to national poltiical prominence, Ronald W. Reagan, who gave the celebrated television speech for Goldwater on October 27, 1964, and George H. W. Bush, though defeated in the first of two Senate bids later became Reagan's vice president and presidential successor.
John Wilkes Booth	On the morning of Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Booth went to Ford's Theatre to get his mail ; while there he was told by John Ford's brother that President and Mrs. Lincoln accompanied by Gen. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant would be attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre that evening.
Chris Jaeb	In November 1994, during a meeting with Wagner and Cuban at California Pizza Kitchen in Dallas, Jaeb outlined his fundraising pitch.
Charlie Brotman	Brotman was one of the academy's students selected by the organizers of Harry S. Truman's inauguration in 1949 to broadcast the first-ever televised inaugural ceremony.
Rosalynn Carter	After the death of Betty Ford on July 8, 2011, Carter delivered an eulogy during a memorial service.
Jackie Presser	During Reagan's 1980 campaign for president, Jackie Presser served as one of Reagan's hosts at a private luncheon for Teamster and other union leaders and escorted Reagan to private meetings with Teamster officials.
Justin Bieber	Bieber performed Stevie Wonder's'' Someday at Christmas'' for U. S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama at the White House for Christmas in Washington, which was broadcast on December 20, 2009, on US television broadcaster TNT.
Helen Thomas	Barack Obama presenting Thomas cupcakes on her 89th birthday On February 9, 2009, Thomas was present in the front row for newly elected President Obama's first news conference.
Evelyn G. Lowery	In 1980, Lowery created the Drum Major For Justice Award, held annually near the April 4th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the founding president of SCLC, who wanted to be remembered as'' a Drum Major For Justice.''
Garry Wills	In 1961, in a phone conversation with William F. Buckley Jr., Wills coined the famous macaronic phrase Mater si, magistra no.
Ronan Tynan	In 2004 he sang'' New York City'' at Belmont Stakes and less than a week later he was at the Washington National Cathedral for former United States President Ronald Reagan's state funeral, where he sang'' Amazing Grace'' and Franz Schubert's'' Ave Maria''.
John F. Kennedy	On June 11, 1963, President Kennedy intervened when Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the doorway to the University of Alabama to stop two African American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending.
Patrick Mendis	At the end of his graduation in 1979, Mendis traveled by bus to Washington, D. C., where he met President Jimmy Carter's Vice President Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota) and U. S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-Minnesota), who have been friends and supporters of Mendis all these years.
John Brown Baldwin	On April 4, 1861, Baldwin represented the Convention's Unionist leadership at a secret one-hour interview with President Abraham Lincoln at the White House.
Dick Gregory	In 1998 Gregory spoke at the celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with President Bill Clinton in attendance.