In case you live under a rock and haven’t heard, today marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of our President. Whether he was killed as a result of the rage of Lee Harvey Oswald or a wider conspiracy or coup d’etat, it is beyond dispute that the assassination of the President was a singular turning point moment in American history. If John F. Kennedy had lived, the world today might be unrecognizable to us. Think of a world without the Kennedy Assassination, the Assassinations of MLK and RFK, Vietnam and Watergate. This cascade of events began with that murder 50 years ago today. And all of those events combined to radically change America.
Here are some of my favorite JFK speeches.
Here are some front page newspapers from the day of the Assassination.
And then there is the Kennedy wit and humor. I dare say that he was the funniest President we ever had.
