John Fitzgerald Kennedy ~ May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963

35th President, 1961-1963 

JFK sites visited:
JFK was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, MA, in 1917. The site was not open.
I have these photos from 2009 and I think they were from a tour of this place but I can't be sure.
We happened to eat here on a visit to Boston, MA in 2014. 
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.
A photo hanging in the Truman Little White House in Key West, Florida.
A few photos from the Gerald R Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
We found this photo in Emmets Pub in Boston.
His statue stands outside of the Massachusetts State House in Boston.
In 2025, we visited the JFK Presidential Museum and Library in Boston. The building was designed by I.M. Pei and is quite stunning.
Nice views of the water and of downtown Boston.
It's a well-designed museum and we enjoyed our visit.
I loved this.
There was one small wall with moving photos devoted to JFK's assassination, which was a wonderful way to acknowledge what happened without dwelling on the details that we all know so well.
Like most presidential museums, this one has a piece of the Berlin Wall but in this case it fits.
Moon rock
A very expensive but significant souvenir in the gift shop.
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, Kennedy visited Mackinac Island in June of 1960 and stayed at the Grand Hotel.
The LBJ Presidential Museum in Austin, Texas, had these Kennedy items on display.
Kennedy Space Center is named for him due to his support for the space program.
Souvenir coins from the Kennedy Space Center:
Kennedy half dollars that we saved:
In 2018, there was a traveling Apollo 11 exhibit at the St. Louis Science Center, and Kennedy was represented.
Johnson Space Center in Houston has the podium from which Kennedy gave his famous going-to-the-moon speech in 1962, at Rice University in Houston.
The Cosmosphere in Kansas has this sculpture of Kennedy.
The Allegan County Historical Society Museum in Allegan, Michigan, has a few artifacts from the time of the assassination.
We found a small Kennedy bust in the Pierce-Arrow Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan.
The East Room and the Kennedy portrait from our White House tour.
These are photos from our 2024 trip to Dallas, where the assassination took place on November 22, 1963.
This was our second trip to Arlington National Cemetery and we came across a special Armed Forces ceremony that was being held at Kennedy's grave. Kennedy's grandson, Jack Schlossberg, was in attendance.
Is there a more sacred place in the U.S. than Arlington? Or was there ever a sadder day than November 22, 1963 (for those of us who were alive then)? Not for me. Rest in peace, John Fitzgerald Kennedy 💔

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