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==Legacy== [[File:John F. Kennedy Jr. memorial wall.jpg|thumb|upright|A drawing of three-year-old JFK Jr. saluting his father's coffin, placed on a memorial wall for him shortly after his death]] In 2000, Reaching Up, the organization which Kennedy founded in 1989, joined with The City University of New York to establish the John F. Kennedy Jr. Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/hhs/jfkjrinstitute.html|title=JFK, JR. INSTITUTE FOR WORKER EDUCATION|access-date=September 13, 2014|archive-date=May 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522065830/http://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/hhs/jfkjrinstitute.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2003, the ARCO Forum at [[Harvard Kennedy School]] was renamed the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum of Public Affairs. Kennedy had been a member of the Senior Advisory Committee of Harvard's Institute of Politics for 15 years and an active participant in Forum events. Ted Kennedy said the renaming symbolically linked Kennedy with his late father; Caroline Kennedy said the renaming reflected his love of discussing politics.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/9/22/arco-forum-at-iop-renamed-in/|title=ARCO Forum at IOP Renamed In Honor of John F. Kennedy Jr.|date=September 22, 2003|first=Kimberly A.|last=Kicenuik|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref> In 2013, on the 50th anniversary of the 1963 presidential assassination, the ''[[New York Daily News]]'' re-ran the famous photograph of the three-year-old Kennedy saluting his father's coffin during the funeral procession. Photographer Dan Farrell, who took the photo, called it "the saddest thing I've ever seen in my whole life".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/daily-news-photo-jfk-jr-s-salute-dad-haunts-article-1.1520240|title=Daily News' iconic photo of JFK Jr.'s salute to dad's coffin still haunts|date=November 17, 2013|newspaper=Daily News|location=New York}}</ref>
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