DFIA Gathering Honors Kennedy’s Legacy
By Linda Cook , Quad City Times

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“My call is to the young of heart, regardless of age,” the candidate said Sunday afternoon. The young man at the podium referred to a new age of technology, and “new breakthroughs in weapons of destruction.”

The politician was John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and the speeches, which were on videotape, were viewed and discussed by a dozen adults and three children Sunday afternoon when Democracy for Iowa held a tribute to JFK. Democracy for Iowa, inspired by the presidential campaign of Howard Dean, is a political action committee dedicated to supporting fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates at all levels of government.

Discussions, led by Molly Regan, of Princeton, Iowa, centered on Kennedy’s tenure as president and his role in history. The event was at the United Steel Workers of America Local 105 hall in Bettendorf.

While the event was scheduled near the 41st anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, which [was Monday], the thrust of the program was not his death, but his legacy.

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