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US Airways CEO Doug Parker was in Philadelphia on Tuesday, touting the benefits of a merger with American Airlines and reaffirming that Philadelphia would be key to the combined airline. "Philadelphia is extremely important to US Airways and will be extremely important to the new American Airlines," he told The Inquirer's editorial board. Parker, who will head the new American when the deal closes, likely in September, was in Philadelphia for the first time since the planned merger was announced Feb. 14. Parker met with Mayor Nutter and went bowling with a group of 40 to 50 US Airways employees before heading to New York, where he will be a guest at 7 a.m. Wednesday on CNBC's Squawk Box . Parker has been on the road, meeting with elected officials and business leaders, including a Senate subcommittee last week, to spread the word that creating the world's largest airline will be good for employees, investors, and consumers, who will be able to fly to more places.

In the taprooms of Philadelphia, where I once spent a lot of nights, you could count on seeing three items behind the bar: One, a black-and-white team picture of the 1960 championship Eagles. Two, a sign, "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. " Three, an 8 x 10 colored photo, his chin up, eyes sky-blue, of John F. Kennedy. Now, on the day 25 years after he was shot, you still can see fading photos of JFK on taproom walls. Doesn't matter whether the neighborhood is Irish, Italian or black.

Under my supervision, a group of investigators has gone over the locations that Oliver Stone used in directing the movie, "JFK," among them Dealey Plaza and the Book Depository in Dallas. On the first take several pedestrians got in the way. On the second the film was out of focus. On the third I forgot to take off the lens cap. In no case did we get precisely the same results the Stone did. It seems fair to conclude that one person, unaided, could not possibly have made "JFK.

The onslaught of criticism directed at Oliver Stone's film "JFK" is unlike any media attack in recent history. Articles and editorials in the mainstream press have attacked the movie as paranoid, absurd and a blatant pack of lies. Incredibly, Time magazine even made these assertions before the film was even ready for release. Clearly, Stone has stepped on the wrong toes to elicit such a loud and furious protest. The movie, which its director frankly admits is a "combination of hypothesis and fact," strongly suggests that President Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, was a coup d'etat engineered by the CIA, the FBI and the military-industrial complex, then covered up by the Warren Commission.

SHARING THE GRIEF Watching John F. Kennedy, Jr. mature was a balm to the enduring grief over his father's assassination. It gave hope that there were new heroes in the world who might address the very serious needs of the downtrodden. His death dampens that hope and reveals once again that we live in a world of chaos and uncertainty where we are too often thrown back upon our own poor devices to cure the ills of the world. The Kennedys are in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, who also had all the advantages, including physical beauty, but who wasn't really content unless he was working on the improvement of the lives of those less fortunate.

AFTER 40 years, the assassination of John F. Kennedy continues to ignite conspiracy theories due to the peculiar circumstances and seemingly inexplicable actions surrounding it. Kennedy's death remains an emotionally charged mystery for millions of Americans who lost their idealism, and perhaps their faith in government itself, on that sunny, autumn day in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963. In an inaugural address that has become a poignant reminder of the idealism of the 1960s, JFK challenged Americans to ask not what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their country.

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg yesterday announced the winner of a competition for a memorial to President John F. Kennedy and unveiled a three- foot plaster model of her father in Boston. The winning artist is Isabel McIlvain of Concord, Mass., who will create a bronze sculpture for the front lawn of the Massachusetts Statehouse. It will be dedicated May 29, 1989, which would have been Kennedy's 72d birthday. The statue shows JFK in what selection-committee members described as a classic pose - in midstride, eyes forward, elbows bent, with his left hand tucked into his jacket pocket.

The grenades being tossed in Oliver Stone's direction for Nixon are mere marshmallows when measured against the tumultuous reception for his masterwork JFK four years ago. Stone was vilified for lionizing New Orleans district attorney and one-man crusader Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) and presenting a view of the assassination of John F. Kennedy that the gullible would treat as historical fact. The truth is - and Stone's film vehemently argues that truth is the first casualty of any assassination - that JFK is a vision infused with molten rage.

In Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, Oliver Stone reopened the still festering wounds of the Vietnam war. With JFK, he takes up the terrible day that changed history and our lives and, in a movie that fuses molten rage with cool argument, presents the death of a president as a cancer that has metastasized through the body politic. Call JFK - which may not be quite the best movie released this year but is certainly the most important - paranoid, polemical and distorted. True believers in the bitterly disputed conclusions of the Warren Commission report may use those words if they are feeling polite.

Countless foreign officials and businessmen have asked me whether Bill Clinton could restore to the White House the sense of vision and vitality they admired in John F. Kennedy and whether the Clinton approach to the presidency would enlarge our horizons like the New Frontier. His initial transition moves make clear that Clinton can and will do so, with actions parallelling, on his terms, those Kennedy took 32 years ago. For example: The announcement of a reorganized (and smaller)

US Airways CEO Doug Parker was in Philadelphia on Tuesday, touting the benefits of a merger with American Airlines and reaffirming that Philadelphia would be key to the combined airline. "Philadelphia is extremely important to US Airways and will be extremely important to the new American Airlines," he told The Inquirer's editorial board. Parker, who will head the new American when the deal closes, likely in September, was in Philadelphia for the first time since the planned merger was announced Feb. 14. Parker met with Mayor Nutter and went bowling with a group of 40 to 50 US Airways employees before heading to New York, where he will be a guest at 7 a.m. Wednesday on CNBC's Squawk Box . Parker has been on the road, meeting with elected officials and business leaders, including a Senate subcommittee last week, to spread the word that creating the world's largest airline will be good for employees, investors, and consumers, who will be able to fly to more places.

IT WAS AMONG the grimmest days in American history. The three-day funeral of President John F. Kennedy in Washington in November 1963 drew millions on the procession route and millions more watching on TV. Just about the entire country tuned in for the somber event. And one of the technicians who made it possible for the nation to follow the proceedings was Richard Allen Swayze. He was working for WTOP in Washington at the time, and his perch atop the Lincoln Memorial gave him an unimpeded view of the funeral procession with the horse-drawn caisson bearing the body of the assassinated president, followed by the prancing unsaddled horse, Black Jack, on the way to Arlington National Cemetery.

Gaeton Fonzi, 76, an investigative reporter for Philadelphia Magazine from 1959 to 1972 who later published his own conspiracy theory of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died Thursday, Aug. 30, of Parkinson's disease at his home in Satellite Beach, Fla. "He was relentless," D. Herbert Lipson, chairman of Metrocorp, owner of Philadelphia and Boston Magazines, recalled. That intensity carried on after Mr. Fonzi left Philadelphia. "His whole obsession was the Kennedy assassination," Marie, his wife of 55 years, said.

If You Go The South Jersey Soccer Hall of Fame annual banquet will be Sunday, April 29, at Shannon Caterers in Atco. Players being inducted include John Rath and Ryan Grzszczak of Shawnee, William Pinto (West Deptford), Todd Seussmuth (Kingsway), and Vicki Essex-Benedict (JFK). Also to be inducted is current Moorestown boys' coach Mike Sutcliffe along with contributors Dr. Philip W. Heery and Michael Radano. The banquet will begin at 7 p.m. For more information, go to www.eteamz.com/southjerseysoccerhalloffame/#6228919 - Marc Narducci

It was 20 years ago that our company was hired to help with the demolition of JFK Stadium. I remember enthusiastically jumping on the assignment, knowing that the razing of the venerable Philadelphia landmark that had stood for more than a half-century as the largest-capacity stadium in the country would be a historic event. Until then, my history with JFK had been memorable but limited. Our family hadn't been big on Army-Navy games, so my only sports-related connection involved years of tailgating in JFK's parking lot for Phillies and Eagles games held across the street at the Vet. However, I was fortunate enough to attend a half-dozen concerts in its monstrously oversize bowl, including Live Aid. Some of those experiences are still vivid.

It's been a wild ride, but the story line of the Republican race remains remarkably simple and constant: It's Mitt Romney and the perishable pretenders. Five have come and gone, if you count The Donald's aborted proto-candidacy. And now the sixth and most plausibly presidential challenger just had his moment - and blew it - in Michigan. It's no use arguing that Rick Santorum won an equal number of Michigan delegates. He lost the state. Wasn't Santorum claiming a great victory just three weeks ago, when he swept Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado - without a single convention delegate being selected?

BOSTON - Final recordings President John F. Kennedy secretly made in the Oval Office include an eerie conversation about what would become the day of his funeral. In talking to staffers while trying to arrange his schedule, Kennedy remarked that Nov. 25 was shaping up to be a "tough day" after his return from Texas and time at Cape Cod. "It's a hell of a day, Mr. President," a staffer agreed. The exchange was among the last 45 hours of private recordings Kennedy made, tapes the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum released Tuesday.

Here is of list of some of the outdoor farmer's markets in the area that will operate in somewhat sheltered locations this winter: Suburban Station Farmer's Market: Noon to 6:30 p.m. Thursdays, 16th Street Concourse between Market and JFK near the 16th Street elevator. Rittenhouse Farmer's Market: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays, 18th and Walnut Streets. Chestnut Hill Growers' Market: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., on second and fourth Saturdays January through April.

US Airways Group Inc. and Delta Air Lines said Tuesday they closed a deal to swap some takeoff and landing rights at New York's LaGuardia Airport and Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National Airport. At Reagan, US Airways, the dominant carrier in Philadelphia, acquired 42 Delta slots, which translate into round-trip flights, along with international rights to fly to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2015. Delta will also pay $66.5 million to US Airways. In return, Delta acquired 132 slots at LaGuardia, to increase its presence in New York, where it has a hub at John F. Kennedy Airport.

Being a pedestrian in Philadelphia can sometimes feel like being a moving duck in one of those carnival shooting games. Now, the new fencing around Dilworth Plaza takes the urban competition among bicycles, cars, and walkers to a new level. The city surrounded the plaza outside City Hall last Wednesday morning to prepare for a $50 million renovation there and to prevent Occupy Philadelphia protesters from returning. The barriers go right up to the street, leaving no place for people to walk around half of City Hall.