From the Archives: The Kennedy Legacy

Commonweal Editors on the Assassination

November 6, 2012

"It is still not easy, days after the horribly well-aimed shots, to explain why the nation has been so moved by the assassination of John F. Kennedy," John Cogley wrote in December 1963.

John Cogley (1916-1976) was editor of Commonweal from 1949 to 1955.

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