{"id":115594,"date":"2013-11-24T00:04:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=115594"},"modified":"2013-11-28T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T06:33:56","slug":"kennedy-assassination-50-years-on-memory-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kennedy-assassination-50-years-on-memory-of-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Assassination, 50 Years On: Memory Of A Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rajan Philips<\/span><\/a> –<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Rajan<\/a>

Rajan Philips<\/p><\/div>\n

It certainly is not like yesterday, but few among those born before 1957 would fail to remember the assassination of President John F. Kennedy<\/span><\/a> in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, 22 November 1963, an event that traumatized all of America and touched the entire world.\u00a0 The fateful day and the moment have become a point of temporal reference for Americans \u2013 ever since comparing notes as to where they were and what they were doing when choking radio broadcasters startled the nation with the news flash that President Kennedy had died.\u00a0 Not just the Americans, Svetozar Rajak, a Serbian and now Cold War historian at LSE, was six years old in 1963 and remembers his shock watching on television the announcement of Kennedy\u2019s death .\u00a0 His family was living in Belgrade in what was then Tito\u2019s Yugoslavia and the family had just bought their first television.\u00a0 Two days later the family and neighbours were cramped around the new television to watch Kennedy\u2019s funeral meticulously choreographed by his grieving widow.\u00a0 Their street in Belgrade was renamed John Kennedy Street.<\/p>\n

I was fifteen, it was Saturday morning in Sri Lanka and I remember coming out of the parish Church after morning Mass and joining others crowded in front of shops listening to the radio news announcing President Kennedy\u2019s death hours earlier in far way America.\u00a0 Television was still sixteen years away for Sri Lankan homes but the radio and the newspapers were riveting enough over the next two days.\u00a0 Four years younger, I had followed with equal intensity the death and funeral of Prime Minister Bandaranaike, the first political assassination in my life time.\u00a0 But for whatever reason the death of Kennedy was greater drama.<\/p>\n

Who would have thought at that time that political killings would become a fact of life many years later, of all places in Sri Lanka? And there have been political killings before and after Kennedy in many countries \u2013 and the list stretches from Abraham Lincoln in America to the alleged killing by poisoning of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. \u00a0While other assassinated leaders are remembered for their political achievements and\/or failures, the Kennedy memory is about the assassination itself, the drama and trauma of the moment, and the conspiracy theories that the killing has continued to generate.<\/p>\n

It would be an year before I first saw the Kennedy inaugural in a documentary in the USIS Library.\u00a0 By then I had read the inaugural speech as well as his nomination acceptance speech several times.\u00a0 I remember thinking in those days that the nomination speech was the more substantial one even though the inaugural speech was the more inspired and full of memorable takeaways.\u00a0 A little later I was introduced to Kennedy\u2019s pre-Presidential book \u201cProfiles in Courage\u201d, by an uncle of mine who was a Priest and Principal in Jaffna schools.\u00a0 He had received complimentary copies of the book from the American Ambassador after speaking highly of the book in a local commemoration meeting where the Ambassador was the Chief Guest.\u00a0 Seventeen years later on the occasion of a sacerdotal eulogy, Fr. Justin Perera of St. Joseph\u2019s College, Colombo, and reputed Catholic writer and speaker, told me that his proudest moment on the pulpit was when he delivered the eulogy at the Kennedy Memorial Mass at the College Chapel attended by Colombo\u2019s dignitaries including Prime Minister Mrs. Bandaranaike and the US Ambassador.<\/p>\n

Kennedy was the first and the only Catholic American President to-date.\u00a0 His victory was a significant milestone at that time, just as President Obama\u2019s victory would become another milestone, albeit a more historic one, in the evolution of America as an inclusive polity.\u00a0 In the Republic of Ireland, whence the Kennedy ancestors came to Boston, Massachusetts, they have opened a John F. Kennedy Trail to trace his four-day visit as President.\u00a0 He was a young leader among old men who were leaders elsewhere, especially in Europe, and his untimely death and its manner made the loss even more unbearable.\u00a0 People mourned in India, they cried in Japan, and Kennedy\u2019s Cold War foe, Russia\u2019s Khrushchev, personally grieved at the loss.\u00a0 The Soviet government was itself in a state of shock.\u00a0 And this year, Berliners have been celebrating Kennedy\u2019s famous June 1963 declaration in Berlin: \u201cIch bin ein Berliner.\u201d It would be another twenty two years before the Berlin Wall came down.<\/p>\n

Many things have changed in the world and in every country since Kennedy\u2019s death.\u00a0 Not that it triggered any of them but it had become a reference point for pundit commentaries or plain ruminations.\u00a0 Some changes came soon after.\u00a0 Chairman Khrushchev was gone the next year, sent packing by the rest of the Politbureau.\u00a0 The same year, Nehru died in India, starting the disintegration of the Congress Party; and Labour returned to power under Harold Wilson in Britain, triggering the end of aristocratic dominance in the Tory Party (commoners like Heath and Thatcher would become the upstart custodians of conservative fortunes).\u00a0 De Gaulle was still five years away from the tumultuous 1968 Paris uprising, but the French, for all their adeptness in the language of diplomacy, were sorely incapable of managing decolonization.\u00a0 After messing up in Algeria they were creating what would become the Vietnam imbroglio.\u00a0 The French would leave but only after getting America mired hook, line and sinker in the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Death spared Kennedy from the agony of Vietnam even as it created the enduring nostalgia over the short-lived Camelot.<\/p>\n

Camelot and Conspiracy<\/b><\/p>\n

English children see the pun in Camelot (came-a-lot) as gone-a-little, but for President Kennedy, King Arthur and his Knights was apparently his favourite story. \u00a0And his takeaway line from the 1960 Broadway musical \u2018Camelot\u2019 was: “Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot”.\u00a0 After his death it was Jackie Kennedy who chose \u201cCamelot\u201d to signify to posterity not only the Kennedy Administration but also the family\u2019s time in the White House as \u2018one brief shining moment\u2019 in American history.\u00a0 Regardless of politics and protocols, the entire young Kennedy family represented the Administration in a way that has not been seen before or after in the White House.<\/p>\n

Jackie was said to be wary of old men writing pessimistic histories (she spent her last active years in publishing \u2013 selecting and promoting the publication of historical writings that did not attract mainline publishers) and so decided to put the stamp of Camelot on her family\u2019s short stint at the White House. But old men, and even new women writers, could not be silenced.\u00a0 The Kennedy life and presidency has been fertile ground for hagiographers and harpies, digging out every detail of the man and his family, his life and his libido, and viewing each detail under every available microscope.\u00a0 There has been a proliferation of books on Kennedy, and quite a few of them have surfaced this year to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n

There is some appropriateness in this proliferation because Kennedy was known to be a voracious reader, sparing no time for reading something \u2013 be it in bed, bathtub, or breakfast and even while knotting his tie.\u00a0 There is also irony in that while Kennedy was the first television politician (Canada\u2019s Pierre Trudeau, who would epitomize his philosopher friend Marshal McLuhan\u2019s thesis for our age: \u201cMedium is the Message\u201d, was still five years away) and a consummate one at that, his memory is continuing to inspire more books even as the visual medium is crowding out the print medium out of contention.\u00a0 On the other hand, the television medium came of age by virtue of its live coverage of the assassination and the funeral, the biggest impromptu coverage since the TV\u2019s invention.<\/p>\n

Historian Geoff Smith has suggested that the Kennedy assassination produced political cynicism in the country, and catapulted the notion of conspiracy from the obscure lunatic fringes into the limelight of mainstream politics.\u00a0 Running against the government in elections became politically fashionable.\u00a0 Smith even traces the roots of the Tea Party phenomenon in today\u2019s America to the cynicism, conspiracy paranoia and the diminishing of government that arose after Kennedy\u2019s death.\u00a0 Kennedy was the undaunted champion of public service and public action by government.\u00a0 He attracted America\u2019s best and the brightest in every field to public service and to manage the business of the state.\u00a0 After him and Johnson, it has been a slow erosion of the government to a point that Ronald Reagan, a onetime Kennedy aficionado, could win on his slogan that \u201cgovernment is the problem\u201d.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, Kennedy did not achieve much during his short stint as President, and critics have surmised that had he lived longer into a second term, his second term would have been as unimpressive as what is now unfolding as the Obama second term.\u00a0 The Kennedy aura has permanently detracted the tremendous achievement of his successor on the domestic front, especially in delivering the Civil Rights Bill, using every trick that a President could do to win majorities in both Houses.\u00a0 On the other hand, Johnson\u2019s monumental misadventure in Vietnam has fed the opposing speculation that President Kennedy would have pulled America out of Vietnam much earlier and at minimal loss.\u00a0 That shows the difference between the two, for whereas Johnson with his long experience in the Congress was a genius on the domestic file, he was not at all cut out for representing America on the external front.\u00a0 Kennedy had the flair for foreign policy.<\/p>\n

I was a university student, in 1968, when Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy were killed in quick succession.\u00a0 Only then I came to know about King\u2019s phenomenal (\u201cI have a dream \u2026\u201d) speech, back in August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, and that President Kennedy, sitting in his rocking chair at the White House, listened to it in full on live radio broadcast.\u00a0 At the university, I even parted my hair to the right to mimic Robert Kennedy.\u00a0 Many years later and with more awareness, I have come to think of Robert Kennedy quite differently.<\/p>\n

To my mind, there were two Roberts.\u00a0 One was the overt and sincere idealist whom everyone loved and idolized.\u00a0 The other was a sinister malcontent who could never accept Lyndon Johnson as a worthy successor to his slain brother.\u00a0 As President, Johnson went out of his way and bent over backward to please and accommodate Robert Kennedy, who was Attorney General and the President\u2019s confidant during the Kennedy Administration.\u00a0 Robert Kennedy not only rebuffed Johnson\u2019s sincere overtures, but also actively worked to undermine the Johnson Administration.\u00a0 Robert Kennedy could have served America and the world better by working with Johnson and counselling him to minimize America\u2019s involvement in Vietnam, instead of taking on a sitting President for his Party\u2019s nomination.\u00a0 Johnson, who knew his country far better than he knew Vietnam, withdrew himself from the Presidential race.\u00a0 The door was open for Republican return, Richard Nixon, Watergate, and seven more years of Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Many of us who were captivated by the John F. Kennedy magic when we were young, have since grown to be critically aware of the Kennedy shortcomings.\u00a0 The Kennedy magic stemmed from his style which shone over his considerable substance.\u00a0 His dazzling wife and their disarming toddlers combined to make the White House a national family affair.\u00a0 Together they gave America its Camelot, even if it was only for one brief shining moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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