JFK was great for Irish-America, but his political legacy is debatable

MOST people who are old enough remember where they were this day 40 years ago. I was heading for Des Moines, Iowa, when a couple of women got on the bus.

Sat, 22 Nov, 2003 - 00:00
Ryle Dwyer

One asked who was the last president to have been shot. The other mistakenly replied, Abraham Lincoln.

Two other presidents had been shot since then, James A Garfield in 1881 and William McKinley in 1901.

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