If you wrote a book about JFK today, and had no access to books, television,

[Tucking Fypos]

internet, or any media...? ..how accurate would it be?

JFK died about 40 years ago. The Gospels were written about 40 years after Jesus' death. Now imagine you only had stories told to you about JFK, how accurately could you portray his life?

[Christian purity]

not very accurate because I don't know much about him.. but Jesus was very well known at the time and information will have been passed down unlike with JFK where people rely on the media to pass information down to each generation.

[abhi]

Great point... So, its all fake!

[Concretedog]

Some of the bible was written a long time after 40 years after Jesus' death. I thought some of it was written hundreds of years after. I could be wrong though.

[Queen Kira]

There's a big difference. The writers of the Gospels had the Holy Spirit to jog their memory, because God was there and recorded everything, then later told them what to write. Also, the Gospel writers were eyewitnesses - they had their own memories of their interaction with Christ to go on.

[Wolfechu II]

'Media' would include 'stories told to you', I'm afraid. And you're putting an awful lot of faith in historical accounts. If they're that accurate, why don't we know why he was assassinated for sure?

[M to the R Mighty RA]

I could remember a fair bit.
The closeness of his election (and allegations of monkey business)
The cuban missile crisis
The space race
His assassination and some of the myriad of conspiracy theories

I am not even an American and I wasn't even alive then.

[M to the R Mighty RA]

I could remember a fair bit.
The closeness of his election (and allegations of monkey business)
The cuban missile crisis
The space race
His assassination and some of the myriad of conspiracy theories

I am not even an American and I wasn't even alive then.

[Amiable Atheist]

Well, I couldn't be sure, so I'd probably assume that JFK was the son of God.