A HERO TO EVERY AMERICAN

SOMEONE WHO LOVED PRESIDENT KENNEDY, BUT WHO HAD NEVER KNOWN HIM, WROTE TO ME THIS WINTER: "THE HERO COMES WHEN HE IS NEEDED. WHEN OUR BELIEF GETS PALE AND WEAK, THERE COMES A MAN OUT OF THAT NEED WHO IS SHINING --- AND EVERYONE LIVING REFLECTS A LITTLE BIT OF THAT LIGHT --- AND STORES UP SOME AGAINST THE TIME WHEN HE IS GONE,"

--- JACQUELINE KENNEDY, 1964

FROM PAGE 264 OF THE BOOK -

"DEAR MRS. KENNEDY, THE WORLD SHARES ITS GRIEF LETTERS, NOVEMBER 1963"

BY JAY MULVANEY AND PAUL DE ANGELIS