Sixty years ago today, the world was shocked by the news that U.S. President, John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was seen by many as representative of a new America. Elected to office at the age of 43 and the first Roman Catholic to be in the positon, he seemed to epitomise the spirit of optimism that marked the dawn of the 1960's. Sadly, he was cut down in his...