On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.

Obviously, today is the anniversary of this terrible deed. In History class, we took a few days to talk about the President's assassination and the different conspiracy theories, and I really came to love this President. We watched a documentary, and the person who arranged it got clips of different countries grieving over the assassination, how absolutely morbid it was, and it showed how globally loved this man was. So, whether you're American or not, JFK still deserves our gratitude for the service he did provide.

On a sidenote, the Kennedy's are an amazing family, or, at least, the one's that are still alive. JFK's wife died in 1994 of cancer, his son also was killed, and the entire family seems to have suffered terribly.

So, if you care to, talk about the different theories presented to us about this assassination. There are, of course, the government conspiracies, which I find most fascinating. The Warren Administration did tamper with the autopsy reports, and perhaps the body, but the tampering of autopsy reports has been proven. Tampering, on what degree, is the question, but tampered none the less.

You know. I've never really read up about anything to do with John F. Kennedy. I of course know what happened and that still a lot of conspiracy theories go around (it seems Americans like conspiracy theories :p).

I always find it horrible when these political people get murdered. They don't deserve it and still they are the victim of some people who do not agree with them.

It depends heavily on your political views, but JFK in my opinion was a rather "meh"-worthy president. Yes, it's terrible that he was assassinated - but things like the Bay of Pigs invasion that people would rather forget make me rate him mentally as just an okay president, not a great one. I certainly don't think he should be deified - no president deserves that, not even Lincoln or any of the Founding Fathers. (They were, in the end, just people, and we are not yet ancient Rome with a cult of the state.)

In remembering the service he provided to our country with his death, in my opinion we should also take time out to remember the soldiers of wars who served our country with equal valor and presidents that were assassinated and never get as much press (ever heard of Garfield? No? Didn't think so).