Nation observes JFK’s 100th

Americans turned out by the thousands Monday to celebrate the life and legacy of President John F. Kennedy on the day he would have turned 100.

The United States Postal Service commemorated Kennedy’s centennial with a dedication of a JFK stamp in Brookline, Mass., where the late president was born on May 29, 1917.

The image on the stamp is a 1960 photograph by Ted Spiegel of Kennedy when he was campaigning for president in Seattle. Boston Postmaster Nick Francescucci said the stamp was selected because of the way Kennedy was looking up.

“His eyes were high, they were looking to the sky [and] it looked like there was a big, bright future ahead of us,” he said.

US Rep. Joe Kennedy III, JFK’s great-nephew, gave the keynote speech at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site in Brookline.