08-JUL-2008
the bust itself
A passable likeness (not really) but it serves to emphasize that JFK was only 45 when he died and was elected President when he was younger than Barack Obama.
08-JUL-2008
...ask not......
The most famous quotation from perhaps the best-known inaugaration speech in the Nation's history.
08-JUL-2008
...let us begin....
This was the passage in the inaugaral speech that led to the later-famous notion of "the first 100 days" of his presidency popularized by Theodore Sorensen, who was chief speechwriter for the inaugaral address.
28-JAN-2008
Plane Down_1.JPG
I ran across this hand-made memorial alongside a secondary road in Easthampton, MA. I must have driven by it a dozen times until I realized it was there. So on this winter day I stopped to see what it was about.
