And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you —- ask what you can do for your country.”
JFK Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
Fifty years ago yesterday, America changed forever. The innocence and overall optimism of the 1950s came to an abrupt end in Dallas as an assassin’s bullet killed one of the most beloved Presidents this country had ever known. Young, handsome, and charismatic, John Fitzgerald Kennedy had represented the future. It was bright. But, even men regarded almost as demigods are human, a fact that was proven all too clearly when someone shot Kennedy twice on November 22, 1963. This one act ushered in a new world, in three very important ways.
