John Maxwell Kennedy (born 15 December 1931) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket in 31 matches for Warwickshire between 1960 and 1962. He was born at Barton-upon-Irwell, Manchester, England. Kennedy was a right-handed middle-order batsman. He scored 63 on debut against Oxford University in June 1960 and was then picked for a few more games that season, though he did not pass 50 again that year. In one of his 1960 matches, a home game against Somerset that was drifting towards a draw, he was put on to bowl for the final overs of the Somerset second innings before close of play: in nine balls, he took two wickets for just one run, and his victims were both Test players, Abbas Ali Baig and Colin McCool. Despite this success, he never bowled his right arm off breaks again. Kennedy played fairly regularly for Warwickshire in 1961, achieving 756 runs in the season at an average of 27.00, but his highest score was only 78. He was less successful in 1962, though his 94 against Oxford University was the highest score of his first-class career, and he did not play any further first-class cricket after the end of the season. In 1964, he played Minor Counties cricket in a few matches for Staffordshire. References

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“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”
— Undated Letter to a Navy friend; also mentioned by William Safire in his "On Language" article "Warrior" in the New York Times rubric Magazines (26 August 2007); also in A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 88
“There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. . . I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.”
— Third Nixon-Kennedy Presidential Debate (13 October 1960)
“...what really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out — not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.”
— "Remarks at the White House to Members of the American Legion (70)" (1 March 1962)
“There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.”
— Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland (28 June 1963)
“The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure.”
— Remarks at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
“What would Lincoln have been without the Civil War? Just another railroad lawyer!”
— JFK to Gore Vidal, quoted in David Swanson's Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (2011).

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John Maxwell Kennedy (born 15 December 1931) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket in 31 matches for Warwickshire between 1960 and 1962. He was born at Barton-upon-Irwell, Manchester, England. Kennedy was a right-handed middle-order batsman. He scored 63 on debut against Oxford University in June 1960 and was then picked for a few more games that season, though he did not pass 50 again that year. In one of his 1960 matches, a home game against Somerset that was drifting towards a draw, he was put on to bowl for the final overs of the Somerset second innings before close of play: in nine balls, he took two wickets for just one run, and his victims were both Test players, Abbas Ali Baig and Colin McCool. Despite this success, he never bowled his right arm off breaks again. Kennedy played fairly regularly for Warwickshire in 1961, achieving 756 runs in the season at an average of 27.00, but his highest score was only 78. He was less successful in 1962, though his 94 against Oxford University was the highest score of his first-class career, and he did not play any further first-class cricket after the end of the season. In 1964, he played Minor Counties cricket in a few matches for Staffordshire. References

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”
— Undated Letter to a Navy friend; also mentioned by William Safire in his "On Language" article "Warrior" in the New York Times rubric Magazines (26 August 2007); also in A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 88
“There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. . . I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.”
— Third Nixon-Kennedy Presidential Debate (13 October 1960)
“...what really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out — not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.”
— "Remarks at the White House to Members of the American Legion (70)" (1 March 1962)
“There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.”
— Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland (28 June 1963)
“The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure.”
— Remarks at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
“What would Lincoln have been without the Civil War? Just another railroad lawyer!”
— JFK to Gore Vidal, quoted in David Swanson's Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (2011).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

John Maxwell Kennedy (born 15 December 1931) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket in 31 matches for Warwickshire between 1960 and 1962. He was born at Barton-upon-Irwell, Manchester, England.