60 years after JFK’s death, today’s Kennedys choose other paths to public service

By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — The 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination finds his family, and the country, at a moment many would not have imagined in JFK’s lifetime. The Kennedy family has mostly withdrawn from electoral politics, with the notable exception of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose presidential campaign has been openly criticized by his relatives. Patrick Kennedy, President Kennedy’s nephew, acknowledges we live in far more cynical times than in the 1960s. But he also believes the family’s idealism and legacy of public service still matters.