Vinyl plays with crackles and some clicks (play-graded). Cover looks okay; moderate scuffing, creasing, multiple areas of surface abrasion, discoloration with darker discoloration spots, and surface impressions (front/back); front has tape on two edges and back has sticker at bottom left. Inner-sleeve is generic white. Spine is unreadable with wear. Shelf-wear and small splits along top-edge, bottom edge is completely split. Corner wear. Opening shows heavy use. Burgundy label with slight variation. (Not a cut-out.)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917–1963 is a memorial album that includes his most famous speeches as well as comments by Barry Goldwater, Vice President Johnson, Pope John XXIII and others. Kennedy was often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president. On November 22, 1963, he was assassinated in Dallas. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency upon Kennedy's death. Marxist and former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the state crime, but he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later. The FBI and the Warren Commission both concluded Oswald had acted alone in the assassination, but various groups contested the Warren Report and believed that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy. After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, including the Civil Rights Act and the Revenue Act of 1964. Despite his truncated presidency, Kennedy ranks highly in polls of U.S. presidents with historians and the general public. His personal life has also been the focus of considerable sustained interest following public revelations in the 1970s of his chronic health ailments and extramarital affairs.