Notwithstanding Marshall McLuhan, I learned a little at the Kennedy Library

Few historical figures travel well through time and space. But if John F. Kennedy were to walk into a room today and be introduced as the Prime Minister of Great Britain, the governor of Utah or the mayor of Brisbane, Australia, he would fit in.

BOSTON, MA.–Media theorist Marshall McLuhan said something to the effect that we used to travel to see the unusual but in the modern age of TV and film, we travel to see the familiar. By the time you get to see the pyramids or the Eiffel Tower in person, you've already seen their pictures a...

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