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The Heart of Power – Episode 11: The Fragile Icons

This is the 11th episode in The Heart of Power: Medical Histories from the White House, a series that looks past the legends to the bodies and pressures behind them. John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe are almost always mentioned together as rumor, as shorthand, as something half-imagined. But when I looked closer, the familiar … Read more

The Heart of Power – Episode 9: The Doctor Who Knew Too Much

The sirens were still wailing as the limousine skidded to a halt at Parkland Hospital. Secret Service agents leapt out, blood on their sleeves, shouting for help. A stretcher rattled through the emergency doors with the President’s broken body. Moments later, from another car in the motorcade, came his doctor. George Gregory Burkley walked quickly … Read more