Saturday, May 26, 2012

49) John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

Visited: Saturday, May 26th, 2012


Now this surprised me...


This is the house where JFK was born, and it's - very... normal.  The first and second floors are set up as they were when the Kennedys lived there, through 1920.  And the basement is 1/2 gift shop, 1/2 video presentation.  On the whole, it's a very modest museum, particularly as compared to the LBJ site.  Though I did find it very interesting to compare the openness of the LBJ site - noting both his successes and failures, strengths and weakness, in good balance.  The JFK video, in contrast, focused on the positive, and excused the failures - and then ended very suddenly with Kennedy's death.


On the whole, it wasn't what I expected, but was rather enjoyable, and _much_ easier to find parking than I expected.

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