John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 60 Years Later
Editor’s note: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, made front page news everywhere in the United States, including Lexington. A story in the following week’s issue of The News-Gazette described the various memorial services held at local churches, the gun salutes fired at Virginia Military Institute and the flags displayed at half-staff throughout Lexington. The story noted that Kennedy had recently accepted an invitation to attend the dedication of the George C. Marshall Research Library that was to be held the following May. An editorial in tribute to Kennedy was also published that week, and we reprint that editorial here, 60 years later.
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