Again, I agree. It was a far more innocent and optimistic time than we are in now. Kennedy's death was the loss of innocence for an entire generation.

The media are also crueler now than they were back then, in my opinion. They talk openly about stuff now that they would have been ashamed to talk about openly in 1963.

Heroes are not as easy to find now, that's for sure...specially in the field of politics. I have some heroes, but they are either long dead...or they are musical performers whose work I greatly admire.