He was a Navy officer, a conservative democrat, and perhaps the last candidate of that party to ever have honor. "Ask not what your country should do for you--ask what you should do for your country." Pelosi, Shumer and the legions of current democrats wouldn't even know what that means.
As one who witnessed his candidacy, election, presidency, and funeral--I far would rather have seen a second term and a statesmanlike retirement.
RIP JFK.
He passed a few years before I was born. I just posted the documentary Years of Lightening, Day of Drums here.
I grew up in Massachusetts, and when the government made this documentary available in the U.S., we watched it every year on this day or the school day closest to this day. We spent the rest of the day learning about our founders, the Constitution and what American Exceptionalism means. Then I moved into Boston, and Boston schools didn't teach those things.
RIP JFK. I'm crying as I watch this video.