Just imagine the apoplexy this scene would create if it happened today…
Let’s see…
OSHA violation (Standing on a chair), kid with toy gun, no security keeping the people away from the candidate and no Teleprompter.
We have given up so much for so little.
Giving up a Kennedy is never a bad thing.
As for his successors… well, the world could use more Oswalds.
You forgot this one:
* Pushed tax cuts to eliminate the FDR Administration’s confiscatory income tax rates.
The possibility that a tax cut that huge could happen in this country is responsible for millions of PTSD episodes for the country’s fascists and socialists alike. Their children double-dog-dare each other to look into a mirror and say “JFK” three times.
People say, “But how about the Bay of Pigs?” I say, “How about the Baying Pigs in DC crying our for a larger chunk of our paychecks?”
The kid with the gun looks like he’s trying to eat it. His dad must have been a Nixon voter.
Kennedy actually paid attention when he was being taught oratory, and was more than a parrot to his speech writers.