Thirty-five years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, his death still raises more questions than answers and the Kennedy myth has still not yet been buried. The first American President born in the 20th century, John Kennedy, the 35th US head of state, died at the age of 46, the victim of an assassin during a campaign trip to Dallas, Texas.The anniversary of his death this year will pass little noticed in the United States despite huge interest among the public and tabloids for any news related to his children and other members of the Kennedy clan, regarded as `America's royal family'.The circumstances around the death, attributed by various conspiracy theorists over the past 35 years to the mafia, Cuba's Fidel Castro, the KGB and the CIA, have been the subject of dozens of books, films and documentaries. Yet even today, no one had yet determined with certainty whether Lee Harvey Oswald, the man investigators at the time accused of the murder and who was killed himselfshortly after the Kennedy assassination, acted alone and for what reasons.Only several weeks ago, a five-member committee charged with studying documents about the assassination slammed past and present US administrations for the secrecy that continues to shroud the incident. Thirty-five years after his death, the Kennedy literature focuses mainly on his political battles in the Cold War and his amorous liaisons - then covered up by his entourage and the press.While many Americans remember exactly what they were doing when they heard the news of Kennedy's assassination, new generations have only a vague idea of the first telegenic President in the history of the United States. ``We each have our own vision of Kennedy, the World War II veterans who were Kennedy's contemporaries, the students in college when he was elected, Bill Clinton and the other baby boomers who were in high school,'' writes Richard Reeves, author of President Kennedy: Profile of Power.The youngest know only of another John Kennedy,his son, John F. Kennedy Jr., publisher of the political-cultural magazine George. The younger Kennedy is frequently described by the tabloids as one of the sexiest men in America. The 38-year-old Kennedy is regularly asked with hope about his political ambitions and The New York Post recently named him along with Hillary Clinton as a favorite to succeed New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has said he will retire in 2001.- Agence France Presse
