Fallen Prince

John Kennedy, like Marcus Aurelius two thousand years ago, served at the apex of his country's power and glory. His life was only half over when an assassin's bullet took him away from his countrymen and his family. For those who were alive in 1963, his violent death was a bigger jolt than the natural death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945. Kennedy has been gone now for fifty-eight years. The controversy surrounding his death has never abated. Half the country believes Lee Harvey Oswald...