Hundreds of schools across the U.S. were named in Kennedy's honor. The first school in the United States named after him, while he was alive, had been the Kennedy Middle School, in Cupertino, California. In the week after Kennedy's death, the first schools renamed for him were the Kennedy Elementary School in Butte, Montana and the John F. Kennedy Middle School on Long Island in Bethpage, New York.[1]
Several schools in The Netherlands are named after him, including John F Kennedy-School in The Hague, John F. Kennedybasisschool in Volendam, Basisschool John F. Kennedy in Oss, Rooms Katholieke Basisschool John F. Kennedyschool in Arnhem, John F Kennedyschool in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, John F. Kennedy School in 's-Gravenzande, and Jenaplanschool John F. Kennedy in Zwijndrecht.
Airports and space center
NASA's Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral was renamed the John F. Kennedy Space Center. Cape Canaveral itself was likewise renamed Cape Kennedy, but a referendum passed by Florida voters in 1973 reverted it to its original name.
New York International Airport (formerly known as Idlewild Airport) was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 24, 1963. Today, the airport is widely referred to as "JFK" which is now its IATAcode.
The student union at the University of Dayton is named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Union, which opened in 1964.[2]
A bust of JFK and a building on science campus of the French-language university Université du Québec à Montréal named the pavilion Président-Kennedy are located at President Kennedy Street's western end in Montreal.
In Cumberland, Maryland a low income residential apartment is named the "John F Kennedy Tower". It was dedicated by Maryland native and late brother-in-law of Kennedy, Sargent Shriver, in 1967.
The John F. Kennedy Expressway, a major expressway in Chicago, was renamed for Kennedy by unanimous vote of Chicago City Council a few days after the president's assassination.
A popular figure in predominantly Roman Catholic Quebec, Kennedy was honored with a street in Montreal called President Kennedy Avenue.
Route-du-President-Kennedy is the official name of Quebec Route 173, a major north/south highway on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. This road is also known as the old path from Québec city to Boston.
One of the busiest highway tunnels in Europe, built in the 1960s in Antwerp, was named after President Kennedy and is widely known in Europe as the Kennedytunnel
Avenue du President Kennedy is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and Corniche Président John F Kennedy is located in the 7th and 8th arrondissements of Marseille. In Montigny-les-Metz, 175 miles (282 km) east of Paris, the Rue Jeanne d'Arc was rechristened Rue J. F. Kennedy.
A segment of Puerto Rico state road (PR-2) in San Juan is named "John F. Kennedy Expressway".
"Kennedybrücke" in Vienna, Austria was finished in 1964 and named after John F. Kennedy, who met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961.
A street in Monaco near the port hercule named AV president J.F KENNEDY in memory of the late president.
Several cities and towns in The Netherlands have a "John F. Kennedylaan", including Eindhoven, Heerlen, Breda, Apeldoorn, Rijswijk, Haarzuilens, Bunnik, 't Veld, Woudenberg, Vught, Bergschenhoek, Peel en Maas, Baarn and Vught.
Plazas and squares
The John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza in Dallas, Texas, is not far from the site of the assassination. The memorial consists of an empty platform with "John Fitzgerald Kennedy" engraved along its side, surrounded by a square cement enclosure with two openings.
John-F.-Kennedy-Platz (John F. Kennedy Square) is located in Berlin-Schöneberg in the location where Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech on June 26, 1963.
In 1965, Eyre square, Galway city, Ireland was officially renamed "Kennedy Memorial Park" in honour of Kennedy, who visited Galway city shortly before his assassination. There is also a bronze bust there to commemorate him.
A square in central Aalborg, Denmark is called John F. Kennedys Plads (John F. Kennedy's Square). Adjacent is a shopping mall and bus terminal called Kennedy Arkaden (The Kennedy Arcade).
John F. Kennedyplein is a square in Purmerend, The Netherlands
Memorials, busts and statues
Yad Kennedy, a memorial to the U.S. president, was established on a crest in the Jerusalem Forest, part of which is designated the John F. Kennedy Peace Forest, on the southwest outskirts of Jerusalem, Israel, near Aminadav.
A Kennedy memorial was established in Runnymede, England, where the Magna Carta was sealed.
A bust of President Kennedy was dedicated on May 31, 1965 at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York. The bust was removed in 2003 for restoration, and reinstalled in 2010.
On June 29, 2008, Kennedy's sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, unveiled a statue of her late brother at New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland.[4]
A bust of President John F. Kennedy by Felix de Weldon at Kennedy Library, Columbia Point, Boston, MA - spqrfineart.com
A life size statue of President John F. Kennedy in the presidential statues across from the Puerto Rico Capitol in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"He Was a Friend of Mine," recorded by The Byrds, was included on their 1965 album, Turn! Turn! Turn!. In The Byrds' version, the song's melody is altered and the lyrics are changed to lament John Kennedy's assassination.[5]
Jazz composer and arranger Oliver Nelson recorded a tribute album entitled The Kennedy Dream which used excerpts from Kennedy's speeches in 1967.
The city of Evansville, Indiana observed John F. Kennedy Day on November 22, 2003, to mark the 40th anniversary of his death.
In February 2007, Kennedy's name, along with his wife's, was included on a list taken aboard the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft to the Moon, as part of The Planetary Society's "Wish Upon the Moon" campaign.[6] In addition, they are included on the list onboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.