The Only Use of
John F. Kennedy
in
The Glass Castle
- President John F. Kennedy had come to Welch not long after he was elected and personally handed out the nation's first food stamps here on McDowell Street, to prove his point that—though ordinary Americans might find it hard to believe—starvation-level poverty existed right in their own country.†
p. 134.5John F. Kennedy = U.S. president whose term was cut short by assassination in 1963
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)