Thanks for sharing. I was 13 years old and lived the generation that sought the overthrow of traditional and venerable values.
We watched JFK's inagural when I was in 6th grade and I recall his declaration (surely addressed to the USSR), that this nation would be the champion of liberty and the opposer of tyranny for the people of the world.
I was not mature enough then to understand all of what that meant. But, as I lived through the 60's and 70's, I watched the confidence and unity of purpose that I took for granted, swiftly erode. It's all gone now.
It came back for a few days after 9/11; but, I think it's gone, gone gone.
I track it to that day in Dallas. TOu are of course to tell me why I am wrong.
I've never bought into the JFK (and RFK) myth. I think it's just a hugely successful PR campaign.