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I was very political when JFK ran.

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

JFK is a role I've always dreamt of playing.

I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy.

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

I made four films on John F. Kennedy, filmed when he was running for office, in office, and after his death.

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.