Today - it seems like he was only President ever killed or died in office. How the nation changed and all this other crap. Good lord, the nation changed when Lincoln was shot. The nation changed when McKinley was shot. The nation changed when Harding died in office. The nation changed when FDR died in office. It changed because the personnality of the man taking over as President made it change. No one mentions that Kennedy's Presidency was a failed one.
Enough already!
Camelot would have been a bigger failure had it lasted longer.
The overemphasis on Kennedy’s assassination may be due to TV’s entry into history at the time, thus making a bigger impact on the US population, or the generation into which you were born, or both. Kennedy is the only President assassinated in my day, so it is no surprise this event has been more prevalent.
The thing that has me stumped is how so many conspiracy notions attend to this. Weren’t they supposed to release some significant documents on the 50th Anniversary? Some things the Kennedy’s did not want public till then?
It’s not really fair to compare the JFK assassination to McKinley’s or Garfield’s. JFK was a mass media figure familiar to all. Presidents were distant and known only in black and white newspaper engravings in the 19th and early 20th centuries.