I remember him as a kid. I didn’t know much about politics and I went to a Catholic school until the sixth grade. His picture hung on the wall of every Catholic school and even in some churches. He was the first Catholic to be elected president. So this was a monumental moment for members of the Catholic Church and it would show the rest of the people in the country that Kennedy would NOT be taking orders from the Pope...it never happened.

Like other past presidents, Kennedy was occasionally right and actually did the right thing a few times. That’s compared to all the presidents since Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.

Kennedy was a cold warrior and he meddled in Eastern Europe and Indochina. Many of his supporters don’t believe he would have sent all those troops to Vietnam as President London Johnson did. But they have no solid evidence to support that. So if he wasn’t assassinated he might have built the war just as Johnson did.

There was his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech declaring he would protect West Berlin from being annexed by the East German government. That government wasn’t much more than a military dictatorship controlled by a foreign power. Of course Kennedy was not a Berliner. The irony of this is that when the wall came down, All Eastern parts of Germany were annexed by the West—people were charged with crimes they committed in the past, in a country that was not really part of West German. The East Berliners were give substandard jobs, corporate bosses in West Germany simply took over the party and state companies, leaving most East Berliners out business opportunities. The Western Government confiscated all money and valuable assets that the former ruling party had. There political parties were dwarfed and made insignificant when the political system was completely merged. East Berliners only made up about ¼ to 1/3 of the population. I short, the West screwed over the Easterners.

Then there was the Cuban-missile crisis. Kennedy’s staff figured out the Soviet Union was putting nuclear missiles in Cuba. Many people think the Soviets were unsure if the own missiles could reach the US if there was a nuclear war. Castro probably hoped the missiles would help defend his Island from a US attack. At the end of it all, Cuba won out. Kennedy signed an agreement not to invade Cuba and the Soviets had to withdraw their missiles. Kennedy became the first and only president to come close to launching nuclear missiles on the Soviet Union.

Kennedy had already tried to launch an invasion of the country, so the real winners of this were the Cuban Marxist government.
Kenney favored civil rights, but it was his vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who actually passed all the country’s anti-discrimination laws.

When he was assassinated the Warren Commission did such sloppy and rushed job, concerning others who might have been involved, that few people belied that his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone.

Many people who supported the Warren Commission and its member get angry and frustrated that most people don’t believe them when they insist Oswald acted alone. There are dozens of people with theories on who backed the assassination from the CIA to organized crime.

We can thank the Soviet Union for launching Sputnik, small satellite the orbited the earth doing little else. Kennedy came up with the idea of a manned moon landing and this was probably the high point of his presidentsy. The space program lasted long enough to land a man on the Moon (1969). In my opinion the Space Program is one of the few things this country did right.

Although he was very popular he really didn’t make many substantial changes. He was a cold warrior who tried to topple the Fidel Castro Regime. I’m a communist myself, so I can relate to those communist who hate him. I wasn’t pro-Soviet, but I imagine if there were a lot of Maoist Countries or a Maoist revolution in Latin America, Kennedy would try to stop it. It was his idea to create the Peace Corps to prevent poor people in those countries listening to revolutionaries.

So he was a nice guy, even though he was a cold warrior. I was 5years old when he got elected. If I had been much older I would probably be one his critics. He was an imperialist, that part made him a bad preside. Yet he pushed for the space program. With all his faults he was still a lot better than the republicans (and some Democrats) who followed him.It’s the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I remember him as a kid. I didn’t know much about politics and I went to a Catholic school until the sixth grade. His picture hung on the wall of every Catholic school and even in some churches. He was the first Catholic to be elected president. So this was a monumental moment for members of the Catholic Church and it would show the rest of the people in the country that Kennedy would NOT be taking orders from the Pope...it never happened.

Like other past presidents, Kennedy was occasionally right and actually did the right thing a few times. That’s compared to all the presidents since Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.

There was his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech declaring he would protect West Berlin from being annexed by the East German government. That government wasn’t much more than a military dictatorship controlled by a foreign power. Of course Kennedy was not a Berliner. The irony of this is that when the wall came down, All Eastern parts of Germany were annexed by the West—people were charged with crimes they committed in the past, in a country that was not really part of West German. The East Berliners were give substandard jobs, corporate bosses in West Germany simply took over the party and state companies, leaving most East Berliners out business opportunities. The Western Govrment confiscated all money and valuable assets that the former ruling party had. There political parties were dwarfed and made insignificant when the political system was completely merged. East Berliners only made up about ¼ to 1/3 of the population. I short, the West screwed over the Easterners.

Kennedy had already tried to launch an invasion of the country, so the real winners of this were the Cuban Marxist government.
Kennedy favored civil rights, but it was his vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who actually passed all the country’s anti-discrimination laws.

-សតិវ អតុ

After he died, they put his face on the Half Dollar coin. The first year it was minted it was 90% silver. For the next six years the coin was 40% silver. After that all US coins had their silver removed including the JFK half dollar. For a couple of years people hoarded the coin and today it is rarely seen in circulation.