Visits to Presidential Sites

35th President, 1961-1963  JFK sites visited: We happened to eat here on a visit to Boston, MA.  This statue in Dayton, Ohio, is supposed to represent Kennedy and the Eternal Flame. You be the judge. Find it on the campus of the University of Dayton, E. Stewart Street. The National Museum of the U.S. Air force is located near Dayton and has Kennedy's plane, the one that flew him to Dallas and back in 1963. The car which carried Kennedy on that fateful day in Dallas is in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. After the assassination the car was rebuilt with a roof, armor plating, and more, and remained in service until 1977. The Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois, had a small Kennedy exhibit in 2019. A souvenir pin. On July 4, 1962, Kennedy stood here in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia and gave a speech. A restaurant in Mackinaw City (Mama Mia's Pizzeria) has a museum on the second floor that includes a Kennedy Memorial. Before he became President...