I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.
I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.
Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's clothes, smoked the cigars his brother had liked, and imitated his mannerisms.
Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.