Kerry's mother, Julia Thorne, was an author, who died in 2006 due to transitional cell carcinoma.

WWE made two Hall of Fame rings with Kerry Von Erich's name inscribed on the interior which were presented by Kevin Von Erich to Kerry's daughters, Hollie and Lacey, attending with their mother Cathy ( Kerry's ex-wife ).

* Kyle, portrayed by Billy Aaron Brown, is Bridget's – and later Kerry's – ex-boyfriend.

Senator John Kerry's 1988 Committee on Foreign Relations report on Contra drug links concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.

" When the conservative web site the Drudge Report published this message, many Bush supporters viewed it as " smoking gun " evidence that Halperin was using ABC to propagandize against Bush to Kerry's benefit, by interfering with reporters ' attempts to avoid bias.

" The comment was described by the blog as " another in a long line of liberal media members bashing the military ," and likened to John Kerry's similar remark from 2006.

Senator John Kerry's 1988 U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report on links between the Contras and drug imports to the US concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.

Prior to Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Kerry's selection of Senator John Edwards, Vilsack was thought to be high on the list of potential running mates for Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.

In this segment, Millis was featured as John Kerry's hometown.

In 2007, it was revealed in the book No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner by Bob Shrum, who served as Kerry's campaign adviser in the 2004 U. S. presidential election, that Kerry wanted to choose Gephardt as his nominee for Vice President but was convinced by Shrum and others to choose Edwards.

Moreover, Packer was not the first choice to take over the running of the family's business empire – his father had intended that Kerry's older brother Clyde Packer would take over the company, but Clyde fell out with his father in the early 1970s and left Australia permanently.

Packer's grandfather Robert Clyde Packer owned two Sydney newspapers whilst his father, Sir Frank Packer, was one of Australia's first media moguls, and Kerry's son, James Packer, is Executive Chairman of PBL.

They also wrote that "" Drudge, with his droll Dickensian name, was not the only media or political agent whose actions led to John Kerry's defeat.

Schilling said he was encouraged to run for Kerry's seat in the U. S. Senate in 2008 as a Republican ( although he declined to say who had encouraged him ) according to the Boston Herald.

She was, however, not selected as John Kerry's running mate.

Shalikashvili was an advisor to John Kerry's 2004 Presidential campaign.

In 2004, Markey was considered a possible contender for John Kerry's seat in the United States Senate if Kerry were to be elected President of the United States.

According to Sen. Kerry's account, Kerry was already injured himself, and his boat ( already damaged from a second explosion ) came under heavy fire, when Kerry heard " man overboard ".

George W. Bush was re-elected in November 2004, defeating Democratic contender John Kerry in the electoral vote, and receiving 50. 7 % of the popular vote against John Kerry's 48. 3 %.

* John Forbes Kerry's first cousin and friend, Brice Lalonde, an environmentalist activist, is a French Green party politician who was a candidate in the French presidential election, 1981 and currently mayor of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer near the Forbes family estate in France.

According to Margaret Ross Sammons, Kerry's campaign was sufficiently damaged by the threat to withhold communion that it may have cost him the election.

" Unlike Clinton's reference however, Kerry's was not well received.

Kerry's vote to support the use of force in Iraq was given with strong stipulations that all other peaceful avenues be exhausted first, and that any action of force would be done in conjunction with a world coalition, and not just with the British.

Early on, John Kerry's campaign manager was Jim Jordan.

Kerry's main perceived weakness was in his neighboring state of New Hampshire and nearly all national polls.

Heading into the primaries, Kerry's campaign was largely seen as in trouble ; the key factor enabling it to survive was Kerry's mortgaging his own home and lending the money to his campaign.

She chose to call it " Kerry's Dale ", after the name of her family home, Kerrydale, in Gairloch, Scotland.

Bush later attempted to deflect criticism of what was described as his scowling demeanor during the first debate, joking at one point about one of Kerry's remarks, " That answer made me want to scowl.

He is John Kerry's first cousin, sharing the same maternal grandparents.

Mark's career becomes more difficult as he begins needing to make decisions that periodically alienate his friends, such as selecting Dr. Kerry Weaver over another applicant, which angered Susan Lewis first because the other applicant was a good friend of hers, and later because she bristled under Kerry's demanding, sometimes harsh leadership style.

The first night of the meeting focused on the theme " Plan for America's Future " with speeches devoted to building optimism for John Kerry's candidacy.

A number of Kerry's SBVT critics were present on accompanying Swift Boats at one of the combat events for which Kerry was decorated ( see Bronze Star and third Purple Heart ) and another SBVT member, Dr. Louis Letson, was the physician who claims to have treated Kerry for his first Purple Heart wound.

Some SBVT members have questioned the propriety of Kerry's first Purple Heart, received for a wound sustained on December 2, 1968.

However, in its October 2004 documentation of its investigation of Kerry's medals, the office of the Navy inspector general described the first, longer version as the " COMUSNAVFOR Vietnam version, signed by VADM Zumwalt " and the second version as the " official version, signed by the delegated award authority, ADM Hyland, CINCPACFLT.

:" Going Upriver director George Butler ( best known for his highly acclaimed films Pumping Iron, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition ) first realized Kerry ’ s importance to his generation and began documenting his journey in photographs in 1969, covering Kerry's leadership of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War ( VVAW ), his early political campaigns, as well as intimate moments of his personal life.

He was General Wesley Clark's first campaign manager in 2003 ran John Kerry's 2004 winning campaign in the state of Michigan, and was senior advisor in Indiana for Barack Obama's victory there ( the first time a Democratic presidential candidate won the Hoosier state since 1964 ).

On 20 September 2009, he started the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final as part of Kerry's All-Ireland winning side, scoring two fantastic points during the game and thus becoming the first person to win an AFL Premiership and a Senior All-Ireland Championship.

The only notable labor union to endorse him early was the International Association of Fire Fighters ; however, Kerry's support quickly snowballed as he won caucuses and primaries.

Kerry made a dramatic entry, riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle onto the stage ; but Triumph, in characteristic style, poked fun at him with a series of scathingly rude remarks, to Kerry's evident discomfiture.

Founding members of SBVT include Rear Admiral Roy Hoffmann ( retired ), a former commander of Swift boat forces ; Colonel Bud Day, who won the Medal of Honor ; Houston attorney John O ' Neill, an officer who became commander of Swift Boat PCF 94 several months after Kerry's departure in 1969 and who appeared opposite Kerry in a televised 1971 debate between them on The Dick Cavett Show ; and 13 other named veterans.

The inspector general's office subsequently determined that Kerry's awards " were properly approved " and declined to take further action in the matter ; the office also responded to Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act request with documentation of its review.

A full list of Kerry's sponsored legislation is available on his Senate web site ; see also the AFL-CIO web site for a selected list.

The subtitle of the film is Wounds That Never Heal ; on the production company's website the complete title is given instead as Stolen Honor: John Kerry's Record of Betrayal.

:"' There were an awful lot of Purple Hearts — from shrapnel ; some of those might have been M-40 grenades ,' said George Elliott, Kerry's commanding officer.

James Wasser, who later became Kerry's radarman on PCF 44, was serving as an interpreter on board-and-search missions at the time ; on the night of December 2 he was on the Swift boat accompanying the skimmer, interrogating fishermen picked up by the skimmer.

The other boat commander present, Don Droz, was later killed in action ; however, his widow recalls Droz's account as being consistent with Kerry's.

Kerry's boat ( PCF-94 ) even received special recognition from Captain Roy Hoffmann on March 14 in his weekly report to his men ; the report's description of hostile fire was not disputed at the time.

*" Kerry's Leadership is Battle-Tested " Peter Upton's account, Silver Star ; Hartford Courant, July 25, 2004

Presidential hopeful John Kerry had been involved with the Winter Soldier Investigation ; in the context of the campaign, Lewy's suggestion that the Winter Soldier Investigation was dishonest and politically motivated was frequently cited to impugn John Kerry's reputation.

The Weld and Kerry campaigns agreed to eight debates and a spending cap of $ 6. 9 million negotiated at Senator Kerry's Beacon Hill home on August 7 ; Senator Kerry later mortgaged his house to raise funds in October.