The Ultimate JFK Assassination Playlist

14 hours of music inspired by November 22

JFKFacts has created a comprehensive 14 hour JFK Assassination Songs Spotify playlist based on a list of music compiled by TurnMeOnDeadMan.com.

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, has inspired artists in every decade and across a dizzying array of genres. The songs range from deeply solemn, such as 18 different versions of "Abraham, Martin, and John," featured, to morbid, inane and irreverent, such as "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave" by the Butthole Surfers.

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Some songs are explicitly about the assassination, such as Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul," but others were only tangentially, such as "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb, who wrote his song after his brother Harold and Kennedy were murdered on the same day.

In other songs the murder of the president is simply a line in the larger composition, shorthand for the disillusionment and unease at the core of American life. The JFK assassination itself is a perennial earworm reminding us that "something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” It has compelled countless artists to transpose that feeling to song.

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