Do you think JFK's assasination is relevant today?

I'm glad you asked that, I have been waiting years to get this off my chest... I was the gunman in the grassy knoll. Ufff alot better, thank you.

I think it is pertinent to history, and should continue to be a part of American History school curriculum. But do I think it is neccesary to take a trip to Texas to look at the road where he was driving? No, not really.

It's about honor. We honor him as a former president. Right or wrong, all presidents have enemies. You cannot be a person in a position of power and not step on a few toes. But no one deserves to be killed. JFK had a lot of supporters and loyalists, so it's not surprising that so many people still remember him so fondly. Besides, when a person dies, it's natural to remember the good things about them and slowly forget the bad. I tihnk another reason that it is taught in schools and stuff is to teach the transfer of power in the event that something happens to the president. Learning that it has been a problem before helps students understand why we need so many rules about "who does this if this guy can't anymore..."

What I disagree with is turning it into some kind of shrine or something. In high school, we were offered an optional field trip to go to Texas. We would take a charter bus down and part of the trip was to ride in a similar car to his through his parade route. That's too much like reenacting his death to me, and I had no desire to go there. I didn't dislike him or anything, I just think that's more of a way to immortalize his death than his life. I think they missed the point.

No, unfortunately it is not. However, had he lived as had his brother Robert we would have had a better world, of this I am sure, He stood up to Krystef head of Russia regarding the Russians bringing Missiles into Cuba and pointing them at us. He would have set the stage on being tougher on the Islamics Facists and maybe, just maybe the World Trade Center would still be standing

The Military Industrial Complex is making billions while we have strife around the globe. This may be a two edge sword.

Only to the extent that it made a legend of a very ordinary President (other than the fact that he was young).

He is so much larger in death than he ever was in life.