The United States commemorates this Wednesday in the 60th anniversary of his assassination of the former president John F Kennedy, still very much present in popular culture due to the fascination generated by his murder, despite the fact that fewer and fewer people lived that tragic day.

With 90% approval among Americans according to a recent Gallup poll, Kennedy is the most popular former president, followed at a distance by Ronald Reagan (69%), George Bush Sr. (66%) and Barack Obama (63%). .

This popularity reflects an almost unanimous feeling in American society toward the Kennedy myth. murdered 60 years ago today in the streets of Dallas (Texas)in what was the North American country’s most notorious political crime of the 20th century.

The Kennedy Center in Washington, the Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston and the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, located in the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated the then president, have organized commemorative events for the occasion.

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The permanent exhibition ‘Arts and Ideals’ has been inaugurated in the federal capital, using the latest digital technology to explore how art influenced Kennedy’s presidency (1961-1963).

In his native Boston, items from his funeral and other memorabilia are on display in a temporary exhibition, while at the Dallas museum the ‘2 days in Texas’ exhibition highlights the former president’s final hours during his tour of the southern state.

This time the anniversary is somewhat overshadowed by the controversial presidential campaign of one of his cousins, Robert F. Kennedy, who began competing in the Democratic primaries but chose to run as an independent candidate last October.

The family especially has rejected the candidacy that embraces conspiracy theories under the historical name of Kennedy’s political saga or promoting the anti-vaccination movement.

The former president’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, has called Robert’s candidacy “a disgrace.”

The revelations of a former secret agent who was present on the day of Kennedy’s assassination reopen the controversy over the case

The anniversary has also served to bring to light new information regarding the Kennedy assassination, something that becomes increasingly difficult as the decades pass but continues to fuel fascination with the event.

In this case, former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, who was 28 years old on November 22, 1963 and worked in Kennedy’s security detail, and is 88 years old today, has broken a decades-long silence with his memoir ‘Último Testigo’ (‘Last Witness’).

Landis questions the conclusions of the Warren Commission, which was created by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, to clarify what happened that day in Dallas.

The Commission determined that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy as the motorcade with the convertible limousine passed the Texas School Book Depository, on whose sixth floor the alleged assassin was located.

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However, Oswald died two days after Kennedy was assassinated by businessman Jack Rubywhich prevented him from being tried and left many questions hanging in the air.

Landis’ testimony would open the door that there had been a second shooter, as according to his version he found a bullet in the limousine that would have been fired from the opposite corner than where Oswald was standing.

While Landis’ testimony is unlikely to clarify anything on this point, it will serve as fuel for the theories that have fueled the Kennedy assassination myth for decades, from the CIA plot to a plan by then-Vice President Johnson and a KGB operation. Fidel Castro’s Cuban leader or mafia revenge. (JO)