Ask Not

John Fitzgerald Kennedy which he said in 1960, the year he became President.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier...the frontier of the 1960’s...a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils...a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

ASK NOT

Let us look into a vision

Through the eyes of JFK

The new frontier he faced

With the games that people play

The fifties were behind him

Ozzie and Harriet, Rock & Roll

The space race was emerging

USSR had lost control

TVs in the classrooms

To watch the rockets soar

Missiles down in Cuba

Threats of nuclear war

His presidency held hope

We asked not what he could do

What the people could contribute

Was specifically Kennedy's view

With 1000 days behind him

He had enemies and friends

Shots rang out in Dallas

And his vision was doomed to end

The people who lived in the sixties

Were to be forever inclined

To relive those days in November

Embedded deeply in their minds