” I confirmed it with a search engine that yielded multiple hits. “
Everyone knows that search engines fake it!
And most agree it was Robert Louis Stevenson, a son of Edinburgh, that did the reading at JFK’s inaugural!
Frost was to read his newly written poem "Dedication" for the inaugural, but the wind and sun glare was too much, and the poem was left unread.
Since that day the bitter Frost media family, including Jack, Killer, Early, David and others, have devoted their lives to wiping (not with a cloth!) any internet reference whatsoever of ol' Bob's misfire that unforgetable day.
And as we all now know it was KENNEDY who eventually received multiple hits; and Robert Louis Stevenson's father, Edinburgh, who went on to lose a close presidential race to Harry Truman.