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[Sound effects – Memorial]

It's been 60 years since a titan of United States politics - John Fitzgerald Kennedy - was assassinated in Dallas, Texas aged 46.

These are the sounds of a memorial held in the former president's honour earlier this month with U-S Army officers and relatives of Mr Kennedy paying their respects and laying a wreath at his grave site in Arlington National Cemetery in the eastern state of Virginia.

But how has the Cold War leader's legacy stood the test of time and what are the lasting impacts of his shocking and gruesome death?

Bruce Wolpe is a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

He says the young politician's style was infectious to many.

"He was the new generation breakthrough leader after World War Two and he really wanted to get America moving again.