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.

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.