MINNEAPOLIS -- Pago Pago is the capital of American Samoa, in the westernmost time zone in the world. It was only 7:30 a.m. there on Nov. 22, 1963, when news of John F. Kennedy's assassination reached the shore.
The residents of the 76.8-square-mile island mostly referred to him as President Kennedy, not with the level of personal connection some Americans felt to the young leader. So when the parents of a baby born in Pago Pago on Nov. 22, 1963, decided to name him in the president's honor, they would call him not John or Jack, but Kennedy.