in the 1940's and 1950's, an american doctor named walter freeman traveled the country lobotomizing mental patients with an ice pick - sometimes as many as 25 a day. he performed the procedure on rosemary kennedy, the older sister of future president john kennedy, because her father thought she was unruly. rosemary became essentially a vegetable for the remainder of her life.

freeman called the station wagon that he traveled in the lobotomobile.

when president kennedy was assassinated, local texas police refused to turn his body over to the secret service. they changed their minds when the president's security detail put them against the wall at gunpoint.

when president kennedy announced that we were going to the moon, it was met with opposition from most americans, who felt that he should concentrate on affairs (ahem) on earth - including the vietnam war.

john f. kennedy donated his salary as a senator and later as president to charity.

hours before he ordered the trade embargo against cuba, president kennedy bought 1,200 cuban cigars.

in 1962, the joint chiefs of the army, navy, air force, and marines drew up a plan to attack american targets and blame fidel castro, in an attempt to trick the american public into starting a war with cuba. the plan, called 'operation northwoods', was rejected by president kennedy.