Memorials to John F. Kennedy

Kennedy has appeared on the U.S. half-dollar coin since 1964

Schools

• At Harvard University:
  • The Harvard Institute of Politics serves as a living memorial which promotes public service in his name.
  • The School of Government is known as the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
• John F. Kennedy University opened in Pleasant Hill, California, in 1964 as a school for adult education.
• Hundreds of schools across the U.S. were named in Kennedy's honor. The first school in the United States named after him, while he was alive, had been the Kennedy Middle School, in Cupertino, California. In the week after Kennedy's death, the first schools renamed for him were the Kennedy Elementary School in Butte, Montana and the John F. Kennedy Middle School on Long Island in Bethpage, New York.^[1]
• John F Kennedy Catholic School, in Hemel Hempstead, England
• John F. Kennedy Elementary School, Great Neck, New York, United States
• John Kennedy College, Mauritius
• In 1966, a new secondary school (for students aged 11–18) was founded in Coventry, England. Originally scheduled to be named in honour of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, it was instead named President Kennedy School and Community College.
• Several schools in The Netherlands are named after him, including John F Kennedy-School in The Hague, John F. Kennedybasisschool in Volendam, Basisschool John F. Kennedy in Oss, Rooms Katholieke Basisschool John F. Kennedyschool in Arnhem, John F Kennedyschool in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, John F. Kennedy School in 's-Gravenzande, and Jenaplanschool John F. Kennedy in Zwijndrecht.

Airports and space center

• NASA's Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral was renamed the John F. Kennedy Space Center. Cape Canaveral itself was likewise renamed Cape Kennedy, but a referendum passed by Florida voters in 1973 reverted it to its original name.
• New York International Airport (formerly known as Idlewild Airport) was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 24, 1963. Today, the airport is widely referred to as "JFK" which is now its IATA code.
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport, Ashland, Wisconsin, United States.

Buildings

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

• The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Columbia Point in Dorchester, Massachusetts opened in 1979 as Kennedy's official presidential library.
• The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1971 in Washington, D.C.
• Philadelphia Municipal Stadium was renamed John F. Kennedy Stadium in 1964. It was razed in 1992 and is now the current site of the Wells Fargo Center.
• John F. Kennedy Stadium (Bridgeport), Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.
• One of the five residential towers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is named Kennedy Tower in his honor.
• The student union at the University of Dayton is named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Union, which opened in 1964.^[2]
• A bust of JFK and a building on science campus of the French-language university Université du Québec à Montréal named the pavilion Président-Kennedy are located at President Kennedy Street's western end in Montreal.
• In Cumberland, Maryland a low income residential apartment is named the "John F Kennedy Tower". It was dedicated by Maryland native and late brother-in-law of Kennedy, Sargent Shriver, in 1967.

Roads and bridges

Bust of Kennedy, with UQAM President Kennedy Pavilion behind, on Président-Kennedy Avenue in Montreal

• The John F. Kennedy Expressway, a major expressway in Chicago, was renamed for Kennedy by unanimous vote of Chicago City Council a few days after the president's assassination.
• John F. Kennedy Boulevard (Florida State Road 60) in Tampa was renamed for Kennedy in 1964 by unanimous vote of the Tampa City Council. Kennedy visited Tampa on November 18, 1963, four days before his assassination.
• On November 26, 1963, the Interstate 65 bridge, spanning the Ohio River between Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana, was named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge.
• The North Padre Island Causeway, connecting Padre Island to the Texas mainland, was renamed the John F. Kennedy Causeway.
• A stretch of Interstate 95 in Maryland, running from the Baltimore Beltway to the State Line, where it becomes the Delaware Turnpike, had been dedicated by President Kennedy on November 14, 1963, eight days before his assassination. It was soon renamed the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway.
• John F. Kennedy Street (formerly Boylston Street) runs from Harvard Square to the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• A popular figure in predominantly Roman Catholic Quebec, Kennedy was honored with a street in Montreal called President Kennedy Avenue.
• Route-du-President-Kennedy is the official name of Quebec Route 173, a major north/south highway on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. This road is also known as the old path from Québec city to Boston.
• Rue John Kennedy is a street in Beirut, Lebanon that was named in honor of President John F. Kennedy on November 30, 1963^[3].
• There is an Avenue Kennedy in Istanbul, Turkey.
• One of the busiest highway tunnels in Europe, built in the 1960s in Antwerp, was named after President Kennedy and is widely known in Europe as the Kennedytunnel
• Avenue John Kennedy is located in Brussels.
• Avenue du President Kennedy is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and Corniche Président John F Kennedy is located in the 7th and 8th arrondissements of Marseille. In Montigny-les-Metz, 175 miles (282 km) east of Paris, the Rue Jeanne d'Arc was rechristened Rue J. F. Kennedy.
• A segment of Puerto Rico state road (PR-2) in San Juan is named "John F. Kennedy Expressway".
• "Kennedybrücke" in Vienna, Austria was finished in 1964 and named after John F. Kennedy, who met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961.
• A street in Monaco near the port hercule named AV^{[clarification needed]} president J.F KENNEDY in memory of the late president.
• There is a John Kennedy Street in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
• John Kennedy St., a street in Zemun/Novi Beograd (runs through both municipalities) in north-west Belgrade, Serbia, 1.45 km in length.
• John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Houston, Texas, is an expressway that connects Beltway 8 (Sam Houston Parkway) to the main terminals of George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
• Several cities and towns in The Netherlands have a "John F. Kennedylaan", including Eindhoven, Heerlen, Breda, Apeldoorn, Rijswijk, Haarzuilens, Bunnik, 't Veld, Woudenberg, Vught, Bergschenhoek, Peel en Maas, Baarn and Vught.

Plazas and squares

• The John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza in Dallas, Texas, is not far from the site of the assassination. The memorial consists of an empty platform with "John Fitzgerald Kennedy" engraved along its side, surrounded by a square cement enclosure with two openings.
• John-F.-Kennedy-Platz (John F. Kennedy Square) is located in Berlin-Schöneberg in the location where Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech on June 26, 1963.
• In 1965, Eyre square, Galway city, Ireland was officially renamed "Kennedy Memorial Park" in honour of Kennedy, who visited Galway city shortly before his assassination. There is also a bronze bust there to commemorate him.
• A square in central Aalborg, Denmark is called John F. Kennedys Plads (John F. Kennedy's Square). Adjacent is a shopping mall and bus terminal called Kennedy Arkaden (The Kennedy Arcade).
• John F. Kennedyplein is a square in Purmerend, The Netherlands

Memorials, busts and statues

The John F. Kennedy memorial in Dallas, Texas.

• Yad Kennedy, a memorial to the U.S. president, was established on a crest in the Jerusalem Forest, part of which is designated the John F. Kennedy Peace Forest, on the southwest outskirts of Jerusalem, Israel, near Aminadav.
• A Kennedy memorial was established in Runnymede, England, where the Magna Carta was sealed.
• A bust of President Kennedy was dedicated on May 31, 1965 at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York. The bust was removed in 2003 for restoration, and reinstalled in 2010.
• On June 29, 2008, Kennedy's sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, unveiled a statue of her late brother at New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland.^[4]
• A bust of President John F. Kennedy by Felix de Weldon at Kennedy Library, Columbia Point, Boston, MA - spqrfineart.com
• A life size statue of President John F. Kennedy in the presidential statues across from the Puerto Rico Capitol in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Songs

• "Abraham, Martin and John," recorded first by Dion; the title refers to assassination victims Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy. In the song, the lyrics mention Robert F. Kennedy ("Bobby"), as well.
• "He Was a Friend of Mine," recorded by The Byrds, was included on their 1965 album, Turn! Turn! Turn!. In The Byrds' version, the song's melody is altered and the lyrics are changed to lament John Kennedy's assassination.^[5]
• Jazz composer and arranger Oliver Nelson recorded a tribute album entitled The Kennedy Dream which used excerpts from Kennedy's speeches in 1967.

Other

John F. Kennedy memorial issue of 1964

• The United States Postal Service honored Kennedy with two postage stamps, a 5¢ issued in 1964, and a Prominent Americans series (1965–1978) 13¢.
• The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was named on April 30, 1964, and served until March 23, 2007. A second USS John F. Kennedy is due to start construction in 2012, to be commissioned in 2018.
• The John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site is a National Historic Site that includes Kennedy's birthplace and childhood home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
• Kennedy was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963.
• Since 1964, Kennedy's portrait has appeared on the half-dollar coin, replacing Benjamin Franklin.
• John F. Kennedy Medical Center is a hospital located in Edison, New Jersey.
• One of the Solomon Islands is named Kennedy Island.
• The city of Evansville, Indiana observed John F. Kennedy Day on November 22, 2003, to mark the 40th anniversary of his death.
• In February 2007, Kennedy's name, along with his wife's, was included on a list taken aboard the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft to the Moon, as part of The Planetary Society's "Wish Upon the Moon" campaign.^[6] In addition, they are included on the list onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.
• The U.S. Army's John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School is named after the president because of his support for the Army Rangers and Special Forces.

References

1. ^ "Kennedy Memorials Surge Continuing Across World," Charleston (W.V.) Daily Mail, November 29, 1963
2. ^ Association of College Unions International "Union Spotlight: John F. Kennedy Memorial Union, University of Dayton". http://www.acui.org/publications/bulletin/article.aspx?issue=448&id=2314. Retrieved 2009-01-09. 
3. ^ Middle East forum, Volumes 39-40, page 112
4. ^ Mac Cormaic, Raudhán (2008-03-20). "Kennedy Smith recalls 'wonderful memories' of brother's 1963 visit". Top Story. The Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0630/1214764288094.html. Retrieved 2009-03-02. 
5. ^ Fricke, David. (1996). Turn! Turn! Turn! (1996 CD liner notes). 
6. ^ "Send a New Year's Message to the Moon on Japan's SELENE Mission: Buzz Aldrin, Ray Bradbury and More Have Wished Upon the Moon" (Press release). The Planetary Society. 2007-01-11. http://www.planetary.org/about/press/releases/2007/0111_Send_a_New_Years_Message_to_the_Moon.html. Retrieved 2007-07-14.