John Fitzgerald Kennedy Was Born 100 Years Ago This Week
Happy Birthday Mr President
The Future American President was born at 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts to Joseph and Rose Kennedy on May 29 1917.
Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for “Profiles in Courage”.
Civil rights, not Identity Politics
JFK was assinated in November 1963 in Dallas.
He was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson, his vice president who would later sign the Civil Rights Bill into effect:
JFK’s grave in Arlington cemetry burns with an eternal flame, lit by his widow and ceremoniously lit by his brothers at his funeral:
According to Seymour M. Hersh, in “The Dark Side of Camelot” reviewed here by the NYT, many were
“Awed and seduced by Kennedy’s magnetism”
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