Park Dedicated to John F. Kennedy on His 70th Birthday
Family, friends, dignitaries and hundreds of citizens gathered near the Charles River on Friday to dedicate a park to the memory of President John F. Kennedy on what would have been his 70th birthday.
“The life was lost, but the light will not go out,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), his only surviving brother, said in opening the 5 1/2-acre stretch of grass, trees, benches and a fountain in the shadow of the Kennedy School of Government on the edge of the Harvard University campus.
The $2.5-million park, paid for by the state, is about a mile from the former President’s birthplace in Brookline and lies in the congressional district that first sent Kennedy to Washington in 1946.
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg attended the ceremony.
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