John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy: Five decades on, as the world recalls the distant trauma of Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, that judgment stands the test of time. For many of that era Kennedy epitomized courage and idealism, the promise of a brighter future and the high call to public service. His inaugural address Ask not what your country can do for you was a summons to a New Frontier of active citizenship that still resonates. It was a nobler sentiment than the greed is good ethic that consumes so many today, and which helped shape Wall Streets 2008 bonfire of the vanities and the economic crisis that followed, according to The Star. He was Americas boyish hero, the youngest U.S. president, the first Roman Catholic, the first to master the powerful new medium of television, the first to inspire the postwar generation with his energy, wit and eloquence. Americans wonder to this day what he might have accomplished, surrounded by the best and the brightest, had he not been cut down by an assassins bullet and then dissected by endless biographers and conspiracy theorists and When John F. Kennedy was gunned down 50 years ago today, the Toronto Daily Star mourned him as a charismatic champion of American power and idealism who swept into office like a fresh breeze and challenged his nation to reach for the moon and social justice, even as he guided it through the Cuban missile and Berlin Wall crises, its darkest hours since the Second World War. Of course, some American historians would be less charitable in their judgment as presidential records were gradually opened. But for a thousand days, he seemed to defy the claim that there is no new thing under the sun. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.