Popular Culture
In the TV drama The West Wing during the seventh episode The State Dinner, a hurricane heading to Georgia changes its course in the Atlantic Ocean where the USS John F. Kennedy is positioned and has about 12,000 men on board.
The USS John F. Kennedy is seen in the movie Speed 2. It was on a port call at St. Martin Island in 1997 (The Kennedy was never in St. Martin in 1997, we were there in 1999 – From a former JFK Crew Member) when the movie was being filmed. It is in the movie G.I. Jane, which was filmed near the Kennedy's home port of Jacksonville, Florida in 1997. There was also an appearance in the 1990 film Navy SEALs.
In the 2009 American science-fiction disaster film 2012, the USS John F. Kennedy is depicted during a scene showing the destruction of Washington D.C. The carrier is clearly seen crashing into the White House riding on top of a megatsunami caused by a magnitude 9.4 earthquake.
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
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“Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God’s property, by some clerk. They do not in the least teach the divine view of nature, but the popular view, or rather the popular method of studying nature, and make haste to conduct the persevering pupil only into that dilemma where the professors always dwell.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.”
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