JFK WAS GOOD. THAT'S WHY THEY KILLED HIM

I'm reminded of the expression "out of the mouths of babes" whenever I think about the question my son asked me one day when I was talking about JFK.

It was in November 1988 and I had just bought LIFE magazine's special 25th Anniversary edition of the assassination of President Kennedy. I was sitting on the couch looking at the pictures when my two sons came home from school. They sat down beside me and I started telling them about JFK but I couldn't stop crying. One of them asked me why I was still crying after all these years. I told them that it was because JFK was so good and the people who killed him were so bad but JFK was gone and the people who killed him were still here.

Then my littlest son asked, "Mommy, if President Kennedy was so good then why did they kill him?"

I was just about to go into a long explanation when it occurred to me that the answer was actually contained in the question and I replied, "President......

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