As John F. Kennedy famously said in his inaugural speech, we should never negotiate out of fear, and never fear to negotiate

Jeffrey Sachs, the renowned senior UN adviser and author, said the key lesson that we can learn from Kennedy 'is to fashion the future out of our rational hopes, not our fears.'

U.S. president John F. Kennedy, pictured in 1962, throwing the season's first pitch at the baseball stadium in Washington, D.C. Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22, 1963. On the 60th anniversary of his assassination, Kennedy's greatest lesson—that humanity can build a world of peace—is lost amid the flotsam of today's political wreckage.Photograph courtesy of the U.S. National Archives via Picryl.com

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

November 16, 2023

EDMONTON—I was having lunch with my colleagues in a restaurant in Union City, New Jersey, when the room suddenly went still. A waiter turned up the radio: “President Kennedy has been shot.” In half an hour, the U.S. president was pronounced dead of gunshots i...

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