Both Uses of
John F. Kennedy
in
Looking for Alaska
- I thought of the people I'd read about—John F. Kennedy, James Joyce, Humphrey Bogart—who went to boarding school, and their adventures—Kennedy, for example, loved pranks.†
p. 8.5John F. Kennedy = U.S. president whose term was cut short by assassination in 1963
- Surely, John F. Kennedy (who was six feet tall according to his biography, my height exactly) did not have to squat at his boarding school.†
p. 9.4 *
Definition:
35th U.S. president who led the Space Race, ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion, managed the Cuban Missile Crisis, and was assassinated (1917-1963)