FurtherMore: Dirty Business

The Kennedy Name

"I see it like I see you before me," Joe tells Jack in Dirty Business, envisioning future glory for his family. "I can almost reach out and touch it. Bridges and airports named after us. Streets and schools and ships named after us. Our name gilded for the ages."

It’s a prescient statement. Below is just a partial list of the institutions around the globe bearing the Kennedy name in honor of JFK.

The USS John F. Kennedy

- JFK Airport in New York

- The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

- The John F. Kennedy Space Center at  Cape Canaveral

- The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

- The John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway connecting Baltimore Beltway to State Line

- The USS John F. Kennedy

The Kennedy Center

- The John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge between Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana

- The John F. Kennedy Expressway in Chicago and one in Puerto Rico

- Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa, FL

- John F. Kennedy University, a school
for ad ult education in California

- The John F. Kennedy Medical Center  in New Jersey

- The John F. Kennedy Peace Forest adjoining Yad Kennedy, a memorial near Jerusalem

- The John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

- Kennedy Island in the Solomon Islands

- John F. Kennedy Park in Galway City, Ireland

The Kennedy Space Center

 

- President Kennedy Avenue in Montreal

- Kennedy tunnel in Antwerp, Belgium

- Avenue John Kennedy in Brussels, Belgium

- John-F.-Kennedy-Platz in Berlin-Schöneberg, Germany

- Avenue du President Kennedy in Paris, France

- Hundreds of schools across the U.S.

- And more

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