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Article: Dallas, November 22, 1963.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 9, 1988
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WHEN WILLIAM McKINLEY was assassinated in 1901, every sixty-year-old in the country could remember two previous presidential murders-James Garfield's, twenty years earlier, and Abraham Lincoln's, 36 years earlier. When John F. Kennedy was killed 25 years ago, no sixty-year-old could remember anything comparable. There had been deaths in the White House from illness, but not from violence. That was one reason JFK's assassination was especially shocking.
It was shocking also because the main note of Kennedy's style was a glamorous youthfulness. Though Richard Nixon, his opponent, was only a few years older, Kennedy carried himself with more lightness and ...