How JFK Killed My Father

Richard Berlin

April 1, 2005

how I laughed that they dressed him up for eternity

without a hat. And I can still hear

the old men murmur in the graveyard,

Kennedy did it to him,

fedoras held close to their leathered hearts.

Reprinted with permission from Berlin R (2000), How JFK Killed My Father. Psychosomatic Medicine 62(2):219.

Dr. Berlin is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Berlin's book How JFK Killed My Father won the Pearl Poetry Prize 2002 and was published by Pearl Editions in September 2003.

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