1. JFK as an Icon
... theirs, the American people at the time were unaware of this information and saw Kennedy as the hero, the fact that he removed the missiles without starting world war three enabled the American public to continue to embrace him. As with Vietnam, after the atrocities of Vietnam were eventually realised with ... the American public many began to hold views such as such as "If Kennedy was still president, then the Vietnam war wouldn't have gone ahead", although it has been shown, in ... American myth of JFK we also need to examine, the fact that he was assassinated in contribution to his ...
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