John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the united states. He became the youngest man ever elected and the only Catholic. John was the second of nine children. He spent most of his childhood sick and reading in bed. His father was one of the richest men in the country. As a result, the family wasn’t affected by the Great Depression (Mills). Kennedy was a careless student until his senior year at Harvard when he became concerned with World War II in 1940. His senior essay became a best seller called Why England Slept. It explained why England was not prepared for war.

John enlisted in the navy in 1941 and gained control of a PT boat. His small, quick craft was rammed by a Japanese destroyer and Kennedy’s back was badly injured. Despite his injuries he helped save several of his crew members, including a man

In a poll taken shortly after the JFK movie came out, fewer than one third of the American people believe the Warren Commission. About a year after the movie was released Congress responded by creating the Assassination Records Review Board. In 1998 the board ruled that the government “needlessly and wastefully” withheld information relating to the murder and that this secrecy “led the American public to believe that the government had something to hide.” Along with this report the board released 60,000 documents that were hidden from the American public and said that they “did not require such treatment.” Many of the documents that were recovered from the Secret Service contain blacked-out areas that will all be declassified by the year 2017 (“Secrecy Fuels JFK Conspiracy Idea”).

American literature has always been effected by current events. American culture still has not forgotten Kennedy’s assassination. One-line comments referring to it can still be found in television shows from “Saturday Night Live” to “Law and Order.” Kennedy was probably the most popular president of the 20th century, his short, productive presidency and his tragic end have had an effect of people born after his assassination as well. Eddie Vedder was born a year after the assassination and it still had an effect on him. The song “Brain of J” was published in 1998, it shows that the American people are still amazed by the government’s coverup and the mysterious disappearance of JFK’s brain.

he saved using only his teeth (Mills).

The assassination has become “a source of endless fascination” (“Beyond the Grassy Knoll”). In a 1966 poll, 64% of the population believed that more than one person was involved in the murder. Because the Government made it seem like it had something to hide, many conspiracies developed. In Corruption of Blood, written by a former District Attorney in New York, Lee Harvey Oswald and a lookalike are hired by the CIA to kill Kennedy. In the book, a group of lawyers and congressmen are hired to reinvestigate the assassination. The CIA group that hired the assassins is always a step ahead of the investigators. The main character Butch Karp is heading the investigation. Throughout the story, the investigator uncovers dead witnesses, doctored evidence and threats to his life and his family.

After the trial, Garrison’s reputation was ruined by the press. An article in Newsweek called “Sideshow in New Orleans,” called Garrison’s evidence as “insubstantial as a Louisiana bog,” and called his efforts to prove conspiracy “circus tactics.” An article in Look magazine went even further, Warren Rogers investigated Garrison’s background and claims that he practiced McCarthyism in an article called “The Persecution of Clay Shaw.” Rogers claims that Garrison fabricated the case in order to prove that the Warren commission was wrong and that Shaw was just his scapegoat. He quoted Garrison saying, “This won’t be the first time I’ve arrested somebody and then built my case afterward.” He also revealed that Garrison was dismissed from the army for being mentally ill in 1952. Rogers also compares Garrison to Huey Long. It’s outrageous for Rogers as a New Orleans native to say that the “people of New Orleans love fantasy more than any other people.”

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