26Eunice Shriver Kennedy
In 1962, John F. Kennedy's older sister, Eunice Shriver Kennedy, established a sports camp for kids with intellectual disabilities. The camp would eventually give rise to what is now known as the Special Olympics.
27. John F. Kennedy’s bad health and horrible back problems required him to wear a hard back brace, which kept him sitting upright in the vehicle after he was shot by Oswald. As a result, Oswald had a clear second shot.
28. In answer to Nellie Connally, wife of the Texas governor, who said, "You certainly can't say that the people of Dallas haven't given you a nice welcome," John F. Kennedy's last words were, "No, you certainly can't." He was assassinated shortly after that.
29. Secret Service members had to physically remove Jacqueline Kennedy from the Parkland Hospital emergency room multiple times because she was trying to give the doctors a portion of her husband's brain that she was carrying with her.
30. John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died on the same day. In the book "Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley," the three of them were in Purgatory having a philosophical talk about faith.
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31RFK's Action After JFK's Death
To prevent the Vice President from gaining access to sensitive information after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, his brother Robert F. Kennedy phoned the White House and had the locks on the president’s cabinets altered and the recording tapes destroyed immediately.
32. After John F. Kennedy's autopsy, his brain was taken and placed in the National Archives for safekeeping. The brain was later lost and remains missing to this day.
33. The casket that was used to transport President John F. Kennedy's body from Dallas to Washington after his assassination was buried at sea.
34. In 1964, Canada honored John F. Kennedy by naming the highest unclimbed peak in North America after him. As part of a National Geographic expedition, Robert F. Kennedy was the first person to reach the summit of Mt. Kennedy in 1965.
35. After being cleaned and refurbished, the vehicle in which John F. Kennedy was killed was placed back into service as the presidential limousine for Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter until it was decommissioned in 1977.
