John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was named through an act of Congress, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 23, 1964 as a tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy, two months after his assassination: "The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, designated by this Act, shall be the sole national memorial to the late John Fitzgerald Kennedy within the city of Washington and its environs." https://www.congress.gov/88/statute/STATUTE-78/STATUTE-78-Pg4.pdf(Craig Caplan)