"We'll just let this one grow," Kennedy said of the turkey. "It's our Thanksgiving present to him." A 1963 article from The Washington Post used the words "reprieve" and "pardon" to describe the ...

Sometime around the Kennedy administration, presidents began sending their holiday dinners to petting zoos, and it was Ronald Reagan who seems to have issued the first official turkey pardon ...

President Ronald Reagan was the first to use the word "pardon" in connection with the turkey. THe bird, named Charlie, was sent to a petting zoo instead of the dinner table. By 1989, the formality ...

The Great Turkey Pardon of 2017 is almost upon us and in preparation the internet is cooking up some exceptionally bad satire and a few of the tastiest turkey name jokes you've ever heard.

A 1963 Washington Post article mentioned both "pardon" and "reprieve" when President Kennedy spoke about preserving a turkey. During the Nixon administration, Patricia Nixon redirected the turkeys ...