Aug. 14,1943 |
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Bartlett graduates from Yale University.
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Aug. 14,1946 |
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Bartlett and Kennedy meet at a night club in Palm Beach Florida. Both have recently finished serving time in the military. |
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Aug. 14,1946 |
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Bartlett starts working at the Chattanooga Times. |
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Sept. 1963 |
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Bartlett celebrates Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.'s 75th birthday with the Kennedy's and their friends at the Kennedy home in Hyannis Port, Mass. In this photo, Bartlett is in the background, seated at the left. |
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Aug. 14,1948 |
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After 18 months in Chattanooga, Bartlett moves to Washington, Bartlett opens Washington D.C. bureau of Chattanooga Times.
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Dec. 8, 1960 |
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Bartlett and his wife, Martha Buck Bartlett, attend the christening of John F. Kennedy, Jr. Martha is a godmother for the infant, and Charles stood in as proxy for the child's godfather. |
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Aug. 14, 1951 |
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Bartlett introduces Kennedy to Jacqueline Bouvier at a dinner party at his home in Georgetown. Bartlett recently told the Times Free Press: "She did a great job - Camelot and all that crap. She was an asset. Politically, she was a great asset. She knew it and he knew it... That was a pragmatic effort. He needed a gal and we found him a hell of a gal."
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Nov. 24, 1963 |
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Bartlett writes a special column about Kennedy for the Chattanooga Times, with the perspective that only a dear friend could have. He wrote: "His temperament was innately balanced between action and reflection, between gravity and humor, and between cold reason and human warmth." |
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Aug. 14, 1953 |
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Bartlett is an usher in the Kennedy wedding. In this photo Bartlett, left, holds Jackie's dress as they walk downhill at the wedding reception in Newport, RI.
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March 3, 1963 |
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Bartlett leaves Chattanooga Times to concentrate on his syndicated column, News Focus. He said that "one of the stimuluses was Kennedy's saying, 'It's a shame to keep writing that stuff and sending it down to die in Chattanooga.'" |
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Aug. 14, 1953 |
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Bartlett brings Kennedy to Chattanooga after insisting that he shouldn't run for president before visiting a place like Chattanooga. While in Chattanooga, Kennedy attacks Tennessee's tradition offering tax-free factories to new industries. Kennedy opens his talk by joking that he was "going to put Southern hospitality to its greatest test since Civil War days." |
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Nov. 22, 1963 |
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Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Here, his widow Jackie Kennedy is shown at his burial at Arlington National Cemetery in this Nov. 25, 1963. |
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Aug. 14, 1956 |
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Bartlett wins the Pulitzer Prize for a story he wrote for the Chattanooga Times. The story led to the resignation of the Secretary of the Air Force. |
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Nov. 1, 1985 |
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Bartlett retires from writing. |
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