1. JFK as an Icon
... 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 hidden documents from the cabinet at the time that Kennedy did plan to go to war with Vietnam. Despite these things when people look back at the JFK peri...
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