How is jfk remembered today

The death of hope has echoes today, perhaps. Maybe Barack Obama is the Kennedy who lived. What JFK might have become had he lived, a second-term president, flawed and real, falling short of the aspirations invested in him. A reminder of what impossibly high hopes are doomed to become - disappointments. But the hope embodied in JFK has continued to burn eternally bright because his light was cruelly, prematurely, snuffed out.

JFK and the rise of conspiracy theories. JFK assassination: Where were you? President John F Kennedy. Clips from JFK's speeches. Why is JFK so popular? Image source, AFP. In death, Kennedy remains a larger-than-life figure.

Much of this is maybe romantic nonsense. Kennedy became the first president to allow live coverage of his news conferences and he held on average one every 16 days. Kennedy was briefly a newspaperman in his youth, He understood the power of the press and understood how to put himself and his family in the best light.

Through the new medium, Americans came to know Kennedy in a more personal way than any of his predecessors, which made his tragic death that day in Dallas all the more difficult to accept. As a nation, we had never experienced anything like it. For the first time, an entire nation had watched the horrendous scenes unfold in real-time and those who saw it would never forget. Even so, Americans still rate him among the top rank of modern presidents.

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