>>>It's hard for you younger folk to imagine what my generation went through when he was assassinated.
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>LOL. In fact those events struck so hard and I heard so many times from my parents what they thought and experienced on that fateful day- that now I remember it myself. From my mother's womb. ;-)

I read Profiles In Courage while I was a college student.
One of our profs made a speech that I thought was courageous and I sent a copy to JFK.
He replied with the attached.
Our course the prof, a real JFK fan, went bananas when I showed him the letter.
JFK was in the senate then.
Truth be told, he wasn't much of a senator, but my generation loved him anyway.