The President John F. Kennedys of Earths One and Two were both connected to the Last Sons of Krypton in unusual ways. While on the latter world, JFK's known interaction with Kal-L was only tangential, on the former world it is much more significant. And also, it was somewhat problematic as to which meetings were and were not canonical.
On Earth-Two, Kennedy was one of ten current and future presidents targeted by the sinister shadowy scientist known as Ian Karkull for revenge. However, thanks to the timely intervention of the Justice Society of America in early 1941, all save the tenth individual were saved from assassinations at the hands of various supervillians.
On Earth-One, a few tales in the early to mid-1960s chronicled Superman meeting with Kennedy. On one occasion, JFK even disguised himself as Clark Kent during a large televised event attended by friends and family of Superman, to preserve the double identity of an adult Kal-El/Superman himself!
However, a later told story in 1963 had an eight year old Superboy was tasked by Kennedy to secretly protect the Mercury space mission. A future version of Superboy traveled back in time to witness this encounter, which his younger version caused him to forget for security purposes.
When this Superboy tale was disputed on Earth-Prime by author T.M. Maple, the editor Bob Rozakis stated in essence that this tale was now canon, meaning that early tales told of JFK and Superman no longer took place on Earth-One. Which Earth, then, were they a reality?
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