The news hit, a rogue wave: sudden, unthinkable, savage

Word spread in an instant by Cronkite and by word of mouth. Then the city froze in place, to watch and mourn, for what seemed one endless 72-hour day. By Eric Moskowitz

“Monsey, New York,” 1963, by Lee Friedlander at Yale University Art Gallery.

Photography review

JFK and the camera before Dallas — and after

“A Great Crowd Had Gathered: JFK in the 1960s” at Yale looks at JFK, his assassination, how the impact of it lived on visually, and the role of images.

Special section

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A five-part series examining the profound impact of former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Democrats curtail Senate filibusters

Democrats voted to eliminate the use of filibusters to block most presidential appointments, a move Republicans said their opponents would regret.

Some point to cuts at Brandeis while former president Jehuda Reinharz is still being paid.

Brandeis alumni, students angry over ex-president’s pay

The uproar comes after the Globe reported Jehuda Reinharz received at least $1.2 million for part-time work since stepping down at the end of 2010.

A view of Route 1A, with a sign for the entrance to Suffolk Downs in the background, from Revere. If the city of Revere decides it wants a casino, East Boston shouldn’t be able to stop it, writes Shirley Leung.

Shirley Leung

Revere can do what it wants at Suffolk Downs

Revere residents voted overwhelmingly for a casino. Let them deal with the traffic, crime, and headaches of a gambling palace.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/11/22/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/chism1121-10317--90x90.jpg Rape, robbery alleged in Danvers teacher’s slaying

Philip Chism, 14, is accused of raping Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer and then killing her.

Boston police Officer Pat Rogers (left) was a decent, down-to-earth Dorchester guy, from a family where the pride in police work ran deep, columnist Kevin Cullen writes.

Kevin Cullen

The blue line in the shadows

It says something about our culture that the only reason a lot of people know that Pat Rogers killed himself is because he was on a reality TV show.

Opinion

opinion | thomas gagen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/11/22/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/1gagen1121-1339--90x90.jpg Did Tsarnaev manhunt unnecessarily endanger the public’s safety?

What’s needed is an authoritative study commissioned by the Patrick administration but independent of state government.

Globe exclusives

“Thor” was part of the study of PG-13 and R movie violence.

Critic’s Notebook

PG-13 violence a bow to video games, box office
John F. Kennedy’s casket was placed in the Capitol’s rotunda on Nov. 24, 1963.

Priest recalls somber duty of praying over JFK’s casket
In “The Armstrong Lie,” Lance Armstrong appears in footage shot both before and after he confessed to cheating at cycling.

MOVIE REVIEW

On the road with ‘The Armstrong Lie’
Nov. 25, 1963: Memorial services for President John F. Kennedy were held in front of the State House timed precisely to those at Arlington National Cemetery. In reverent silence stood nearly 10,000 mourners including 2,000 National Guardsmen at rigid attention along Beacon Street. Church bells from the steeple of nearby Park Street Church and St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral tolled solemnly. The religious-military services concluded on the mournful notes of Taps blown by buglers from three different points. As the notes finished, a squadron of 12 jet fighters of the 102d Tactical Fighter Wings zoomed over the gold dome of the State House.

From the Archives

Remembering John F. Kennedy

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Despite Charles Lightbody’s claim that he had no stake in the Everett casino plan, several people, including a state investigator and an Everett businessman, say he has boasted that he stands to make millions if the state approves Wynn’s casino license and he buys the land.

Land deal for Everett casino plan under scrutiny
Nov. 22, 1963: Stunned readers saw the first pictures and read the first news clips from Dallas reporting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The simple sign, “President is dead,” alerted those farther back in the crowd to the terrible news.

JFK: 50 years later

Share your memories of JFK’s assassination
Family members of Middleboro resident Michael Dutra, who was killed in an October hit-and-run, became emotional during the arraignment of UMass-Darmouth student Eric Megna.

Teen pleads not guilty in fatal hit-and-run
James Waterston (left) and Richard Poe in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of “The Cocktail Hour.”

Stage Review

Family is an ingredient in ‘Cocktail Hour’
The Body Worlds Vital exhibit features more than 200 chemically preserved body parts and 15 whole cadavers.

Body Worlds set to open at Quincy Market

movie review

‘Catching Fire’ soars, skewers
Gemvara chief executive Janet Holian said the shortened season is an issue because the company makes jewelry to order.

Retailers scramble to lure shoppers

Sports

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Derek Roy scored in the fourth round of the shootout against the Bruins.

Bruins left feeling blue in shootout

The Bruins were unable to keep the game from going to a shootout, where the Blues’ Derek Roy and Alex Steen scored to give St. Louis the win.

Metro

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Family members of Middleboro resident Michael Dutra, who was killed in an October hit-and-run, became emotional during the arraignment of UMass-Darmouth student Eric Megna.

Teen pleads not guilty in fatal hit-and-run

The 18-year-old UMass-Dartmouth student is accused of hitting a bicyclist and leaving the injured Middleborough man on the side of the road.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

The wages of compromise on Beacon Hill
Education Secretary Arne Duncan caused a stir with his “white suburban moms” comment.

CARLO ROTELLA

Arne Duncan finally speaks his mind
A single rose was left on the front steps Tuesday of Mei Jones’s Arlington home.

Yvonne Abraham

Unseen peril in Arlington

NICHOLAS BURNS

JFK’s resounding impact

SCOT LEHIGH

Best health care system? Not in the US
Stephen Crosby (left) spoke at a 2011 news conference at the State House.

Shirley Leung

Crosby may regulate a little too well

Tech lab

TVs get smarter, but not smart enough

Alex Beam

How about AmeriCanada?
Bill Belichick leaves after Monday night’s loss; officials made a controversial non-call on the last play.

Christopher L. Gasper

There’s no anti-Patriots bias here
Vaughn Meader, center right as JFK, is shown on his 1962 album ''The First Family.”

JEFF JACOBY

When the joke was on JFK

Kevin Cullen

How to respond to morons

Adrian Walker

A battle worth waging

Nation & World

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Islamic seminary students searched for belongings. The attack came as Pakistani officials and politicians from across the spectrum have intensified criticism of US drone attacks.

Drone strike on seminary kills 6 people in Pakistan

Missiles believed to have been fired by a US drone struck an Islamic seminary in northern Pakistan on Thursday, a rare strike outside the country’s volatile tribal regions.

Politics

political notebook

Representative Joseph P. Kennedy.

Lawmaker calls for Peace Corps memorial

John F. Kennedy’s great nephew Joseph Kennedy is requesting that Congress consider memorializing one of his key policy initiatives.

Business

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Franki Lepore of Boston got a close look at the Replicator 2, a 3-D printer, at the new MakerBot store on Newbury Street.

MakerBot opens Boston store, tests market for 3-D printers

“You can take the things that you imagine and make them real,” MakerBot cofounder and chief executive Bre Pettis said at the Newbury Street store’s opening.

Arts

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Music Review

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, who has grappled with health issues in recent years, nevertheless was able to conduct a vigorous program at Symphony Hall.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos brings bassoon to life

The Boston Symphony Orchestra hadn’t played a bassoon concerto in well over a decade, until Thursday, when principal bassoonist Richard Svoboda gave the premiere of Marc Neikrug’s Bassoon Concerto.

Movies

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‘Catching Fire’ soars and skewers at the same time

A sequel that unexpectedly improves on its predecessor, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” is a muscular, engrossing, powerfully bleak epic.

Globe Insiders

Globe Talk | Dec. 4

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The best-selling author of “Little Children” discusses his craft with the Globe’s new book critic, Matthew Gilbert.

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Magazine

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The state of extramarital affairs
The cover for the November 10 2013 issue

Just the right kind of cold
The cover for the November 3 2013 issue

Top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts
The cover for the October 27 2013 issue

A First Period home gets a second life

Ideas

“Researchers believe there’s something uniquely and inherently difficult about the in-law relationship itself — as one psychologist put it, ‘The problem is really structural.’”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the weird science of in-laws