Last week the United States, and Massachusetts in particular, celebrated the life and accomplishments of one of its most esteemed public servants. It was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a bittersweet milestone commemorating the fact that JFK was taken from us much too soon – at the untimely age of 46 – but lived a life dedicated to the betterment of his countrymen.

In this interactive age of social media platforms and sprawling networks, one, but not the sole, method of measuring one’s popularity and sentimentality is through social data. And if you were to compare JFK’s social media data to a simple scale of one to ten – one being contemporary Congress and ten being David Ortiz – well, actually, it doesn’t even matter. JFK was off the charts.

Thanks to our friends over at Crimson Hexagon, who absolutely crush social media analytics the way JFK did Cuban cigars, here’s a glimpse of how JFK dominated Twitter, from number of mentions and keywords, to most retweeted handles and 1963 real-time reenactments, on the 50th anniversary of his tragic death.