For most gearheads, 1963 instantly conjures visions of the split-window Corvette: a car celebrated for its beauty, engineering, and performance. Chevrolet's flagship had a powerful small-block V8, ...

Who: Broughton Coburn’s “The Vast Unknown: America’s First Ascent of Everest,” with special guest Vail resident Dick Pownall, member of the 1963 American Everest expedition Information: Coburn ...

Chevrolet envisioned big plans for its new ’Vette long before the C2 came to market. The model started as a design study called the Stingray Racer, initiated in 1959 by GM’s vice president of Styling, ...

It was just before 12:30 p.m. when the motorcade reached Dealey Plaza In downtown Dallas. The plaza, a city park and memorial built to honor prominent early Dallas residents, was a Works Progress ...

Nov. 22, 1963, marked a turning point in U.S. history. Forty years ago John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and Americans realized life would never be the same. Along with the 40th anniversary of JFK’s ...

Sean Illing is the host of The Gray Area podcast. In the spring of 1963, Robert F. Kennedy, the attorney general of the United States, and James Baldwin, the great writer and novelist, met in a ...

DALLAS >> The mementoes are everywhere, preserved for five decades by people who wish they could forget: letters of grief and thanks, in a widow’s hand; an unwanted wedding band; a rose stained with ...

CELEBRITIES DON’T PICK UP THE phone unless the caller has been cleared. So after first introducing myself to an assistant as a freelance writer at AutoWeek, I had to laugh when a familiar voice came ...