But the imagery of the generation that would give birth to the 1968 movement was also formed on other great figures of political innovators, who even if far from preaching socialist revolutions, seemed to mark a discontinuity with the past, a visible and decisive change. This is the case of J.F. Kennedy (who also dragged the USA towards the Vietnamese adventure and declared a total war on the Cuba of Castro) and of his “New Frontier”.  Or that of John XXIII who opened a new space in the Church, which would then be amply also occupied by Catholic dissent, as far as its most radical fringes