Steve Lundeberg

As many of you know (or have heard and forgotten), I was born on Aug. 16, 1963, which all things considered was a relatively cool time to come into the world for a guy like me.

Probably my favorite pitcher of all-time, Sandy Koufax, was in the process of driving toward his first Cy Young Award, which he would end up winning, unanimously, the first pitcher to do so.

And in the fictional world, Oregon literary giant Ken Kesey was shipping Randall Patrick McMurphy off to the  state hospital in summer 1963 in the novel that would serve as the basis for the Best Picture of 1975, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

Of course, by late autumn 1963, America was mourning the death of  President Kennedy, killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22.

In honor of JFK, this week’s Top 7 deals with the things we associate with him, not counting his assassination. Here we go:

1) PT-109.

2) “Profiles in Courage.”

3) “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

4) Bay of Pigs.

5) Cuban Missile Crisis.

6) Moon challenge.

7) Marilyn Monroe.

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