You are right. The whole Kennedy/Camelot thing is unknown to many. I am 48yo and was 3yo when JFK was killed in office and only 8 when RFK was killed. My younger sisters who are 35 and almost 40 ask “who”?
Makes a difference. I was 25 when Kennedy was elected President. A high school classmate of mine worked in Ralph Yarborough’s office, just down the way from Kennedy’s office. So knew about “the girls.” Just had no idea he was so totally reckless, though. Was in Austin when Johnson was president. Johnson was much worse. Kennedy had charm. Johnson had none, but his ability to manipulate people was amazing. Even when he was just VP, his ability to dominate a room full of people was something to behold. As for the Camelot things, well, it grew out of the emotion of the assassination. The reality of it cracked the veneer of the most hardened pol/newsman. It became first a comforting myth and then simply political cover. It must have been the same as when Lincoln was killed. One day just that “damned Lincoln.”the next, a political martyr. But every emotion fades. In another twenty years, even MLK will fade away. Might happen faster if “the first black President” proves a cropper.