Today marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas Texas on the 22 November 1963 by a communist.
A Democrat, Kennedy was the first Catholic president of the United States at a time when the WASP aristocracy still dominated American public life. Kennedy was an ardent anti-communist and in his inauguration speech on 20 January 1961 stood for natural rights declaring, “and yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe. The belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God”.
