Bite Size News, February 15: Presidents Day Edition


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  • After more than 40 years, a previously unreleased film from the day of President Kennedy's arrival in Dallas before his assassination is now showing at the JFK museum at Dealey Plaza. [WHDH]
  • After more than 50 years, Kennedy's Swedish lover is auctioning off his love letters. (They were involved three months before he married Jaqueline Bouvier.) [Boston Channel]
  • The handcuffs that made Henry Louis Gates a national celebrity will never be used to arrest another Harvard professor since they've been donated to the Smithsonian. [Boston Globe]
  • A man proposed to his girlfriend at Quincy Market over the weekend. [WHDH]
  • After initial reports of her rescue, the body of the Rutland college student has been recovered in Haiti. [Boston Herald]
  • Gloucester fishermen are heading to Washington to fight for their right to work (then pahhty latuh). [Gloucester Daily Times]
  • A Portsmouth Hilton hotel is evacuated after a carbon monoxide leak, but we don't know why there's so much carbon monoxide in a hotel. [Union Leader]
  • Previously on Bostonist: Hannah Kearney from Vermont is the first American to win a gold medal in Vancouver.

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