JFK biographer Ralph Martin observed: “Kennedy talked a great deal about death, and about the assassination of Lincoln.”[14] Kennedy’s conscious model for struggling truthfully through conflict, and being ready to die as a consequence, was Abraham Lincoln. On the day when Kennedy and Khrushchev resolved the Missile Crisis, JFK told his brother, Robert, referring to the assassination of Lincoln, “This is the night I should go to the theater.”[15]
