ocr: The Kennedy Family One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief The most we can do is exploit our memories of his excellence. JOHN CHEEVER (1912-82),U.S. author. Johr Cheever: The Journais, "The Sixties" (ed. by Robert Gottlieb, 1991),1963 entry on the assassination of Johr F. Kennedy.