John F. Kennedy

The Cuban missile crisis had an epilogue that few know — the Kennedy administration was in secret talks with Cuba around a reconciliation. In current news, several women in London have been held in slavery for years, Europe contemplates its own NSA-proof cloud computing facility, and we visit Ford Nation — the Toronto mayor’s fans who insist they’ll vote for him again. All that and more, in today’s Global Scan.

Harris Wofford designed and helped implement the Peace Corps for President John F. Kennedy. He says it is central to Kennedy’s legacy and embodies the late president’s call to “ask not what your country do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

John F. Kennedy was the first US president to be seen widely on television. That gave people a sense of connection that left lasting memories, even in a tiny English town where Kennedy made a brief stop to attend church.

The hostility between John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro’s Cuba is legendary. But newly-released documents show that Kennedy had plans to reconcile with Cuba — plans scuttled when he was assassinated. PRI’s The World takes this look back at “The World that Was.”

We recently asked high school students in Cape Town, South Africa, this question: Who was JFK? Here is what they said.