Needless to say, the break room exploded in laughter. It was a long time before Lester pulled any more pranks." Held for Ransom "The best prank I ever pulled was back in the '80s.

Half the staff was ignoring it all, hoping the problem would go away. At 8:42, I sent an email confessing about the prank and quickly put everyone's name tags back.

Why do we perform pranks on April 1? No one really knows when and where the practice started, but it is documented well back to medieval times. Some historians think the tradition has its roots in ...

The greatest military prank of all time Aircrewmen, not the ones involved in the prank, are lifted from the flight deck of USS John F. Kennedy by an HH-60H "Seahawk" helicopter.

When pigs fly: Here's a look at the military's greatest April Fools' Day pranks Frank Lennon Special to The Journal 0:04 ...

In 1986, a US Navy helicopter crew devised a prank that would go down as one of the best in history. As the USS John F. Kennedy came to relieve the USS America after a six-month deployment in the ...

You won’t believe this military prank—they actually do this?! Watch the hilarious and surprising moments when this classic prank gets pulled off in a military setting. It’s all about ...

The U.S. envoy for Venezuela dismissed the possibility of American military action in the South American country in a recording made by two Russian pranksters and released Wednesday.

US Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Jim Hampshire Apart from its history-making service and features, the Kennedy also was the setting of one of the greatest military pranks of all time. In ...