WASHINGTON — Jesse Helms, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina who for half a century infuriated liberals with his race-baiting campaign tactics and presidents of both parties with his ...

Jesse Helms served in the Senate for 30 years, from 1973 to the year 2003. NPR's David Folkenflik covered Congress during Helms' later years, in the '90s, and David joins us now from New York.

Jesse Helms is one of the last, perhaps the last unreconstructed southern conservative. He started out in the Democratic Party when the Democrats symbolized racial conservatism.

Jesse Helms, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina who for half a century infuriated liberals with his race-baiting campaign tactics and presidents of both parties with his use of senatorial ...

Helms beat Mothers Against Jesse and their allies, but his victory against gay affirmation didn’t last. Neither did his chokehold on Knox’s expression of her true identity.

Jesse Helms, the five-term Republican Senator from North Carolina, has died. He was 86. Helms died in Raleigh at 1:15 this morning, according to the Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, North Carolina.

Jesse Helms, who died at 1:15 a.m. Friday in Raleigh, will lie in repose Monday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Hayes-Barton Baptist Church. His funeral will be 2 p.m. on Tuesday also at the church. A ...

Boo for Jesse Helms August 31, 2001 Timothy P. Carney commends retiring Sen. Jesse Helms for his commitment to "limited government and adherence to the Constitution" [Free for All, Aug. 25].

Jesse Helms is dead -- but his sinister influence lives on. If you seek his monument, look around. By Michael Lind. Michael Lind is the author of more a dozen books of nonfiction, fiction and ...

It seemed somehow profane that Sen. Jesse Helms should have managed to depart this life on the 232 nd anniversary of the declaration of American independence. To die on the Fourth of July, one can ...

Jesse Helms, who died at 1:15 a.m. Friday in Raleigh, will lie in repose Monday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Hayes-Barton Baptist Church. His funeral will be 2 p.m. on Tuesday also at the church. A ...

RALEIGH, N.C. – When telling stories about Jesse Helms after his death on the Fourth of July, the politician who took his place in Congress recalled how the iconic North Carolina senator liked ...