John F. Kennedy, the president, was popular because he was young and good looking. He was also the first and only Catholic president, which curried favour with a lot of Catholics (Italian, Irish, and Hispanic cultures lean Catholic). Then there was the Cuban Missile Crisis, which he is credited for de-escalating. And then he was assassinated, which created a bunch of conspiracy theories.
You may have heard of a little-known movie called Titanic… /s if not obvious… and this filmmaker, James Cameron, who really wanted to learn more about the ship and its fated voyage, so he justified spending millions of dollars on a fact-finding mission to the bottom of the Atlantic to look at the wreckage. He justified that with a movie that made over a billion dollars.
There’s a similar story about JFK. American writer Stephen King had a similar fascination with JFK. So he began obsessing over it, and it it was taking him away from his writing. His wife/manager pointed this out, so he worked it into a book. It’s called 11/22/63, and some people who have never read his book IT, think it’s his best book. (Those of us who have read IT also love 11/22/63, but it sure ain’t his best!) It’s got one of the best endings to a King book, ever. And it’s way better than Titanic. It’s about a guy from our time who wants to know what really happened, and he meets a guy with a portal to 1958. So the catch is, he has to go through this portal, which is in Maine, and then he has about five years to get to Texas, hundreds of miles away. Oh, every trip through the portal resets the timeline, so he could just rob the same bank a bunch of times to fund his trip. They never thought of that, though. So anyway, guy goes to the 1950s, forgets to leave his iPhone behind, so he throws that in a lake (god forbid he just start over, right?). Then he goes to Dallas (does a bunch of other stuff first) and shadows Lee Harvey Oswald, the guy who assassinated JFK. He can’t just shoot him, though he does want to stop the assassination. He wants the truth. Not only does he get the truth, he saves JFK. And that’s when shit goes sideways. Hell of a book. Might help you understand why Americans loved JFK. King’s love for JFK shines through what is an incredible adventure. Which makes the ending so much better. It’s almost believable, time portal and all.
John F. Kennedy, the president, was popular because he was young and good looking. He was also the first and only Catholic president, which curried favour with a lot of Catholics (Italian, Irish, and Hispanic cultures lean Catholic). Then there was the Cuban Missile Crisis, which he is credited for de-escalating. And then he was assassinated, which created a bunch of conspiracy theories.
You may have heard of a little-known movie called Titanic… /s if not obvious… and this filmmaker, James Cameron, who really wanted to learn more about the ship and its fated voyage, so he justified spending millions of dollars on a fact-finding mission to the bottom of the Atlantic to look at the wreckage. He justified that with a movie that made over a billion dollars.
There’s a similar story about JFK. American writer Stephen King had a similar fascination with JFK. So he began obsessing over it, and it it was taking him away from his writing. His wife/manager pointed this out, so he worked it into a book. It’s called 11/22/63, and some people who have never read his book IT, think it’s his best book. (Those of us who have read IT also love 11/22/63, but it sure ain’t his best!) It’s got one of the best endings to a King book, ever. And it’s way better than Titanic. It’s about a guy from our time who wants to know what really happened, and he meets a guy with a portal to 1958. So the catch is, he has to go through this portal, which is in Maine, and then he has about five years to get to Texas, hundreds of miles away. Oh, every trip through the portal resets the timeline, so he could just rob the same bank a bunch of times to fund his trip. They never thought of that, though. So anyway, guy goes to the 1950s, forgets to leave his iPhone behind, so he throws that in a lake (god forbid he just start over, right?). Then he goes to Dallas (does a bunch of other stuff first) and shadows Lee Harvey Oswald, the guy who assassinated JFK. He can’t just shoot him, though he does want to stop the assassination. He wants the truth. Not only does he get the truth, he saves JFK. And that’s when shit goes sideways. Hell of a book. Might help you understand why Americans loved JFK. King’s love for JFK shines through what is an incredible adventure. Which makes the ending so much better. It’s almost believable, time portal and all.
King also mentions JFK as a Gunslinger of our world in the Dark Tower.
wasn’t Biden Catholic?
Yes. “First” is correct, “only” not anymore, if the above commenter is an AI chatbot, it should really update its training data.