in childhood I liked going through the books on my RL parents' bookshelves; I wasn't necessarily good at reading them, but especially when very young it was fun simply to scan the text. my RL father didn't own many books aside from some math textbooks; RL mom had heaps of cookbooks and knitting books and similar, along with some books that reflected her leftist days in Chile, and some mystery novels...but there were a couple of oddities. one of them was a weird techno-thriller by Nancy Freedman, titled Joshua: Son of None (https://medhum.med.nyu.edu/view/11892), about an attempt to duplicate JFK. no, really.
a doctor named Thor Bitterbaum (!!) happens to be present at the bedside of the dying Kennedy—who isn't named but how many American Presidents have been shot in the head in recent times—and he steals a tissue sample with a cockamamie plan in mind: he's going to use human cloning techniques to create an identical child and, with the help of a multimillionaire sponsor, Thor (!!!) plans to recapitulate key events from JFK's childhood and upbringing so that the new person, Joshua Francis Kellogg (geddit?!), will become as much like the original Kennedy as possible. readers of science fiction may recognize that C. J. Cherryh's massive novel Cyteen has a similar plot in a fictional setting. also, C. J. Cherryh is a better writer. anyway the JFK plan backfires in a truly ridiculous way: Joshua is so successful at recapitulating Kennedy's career that he also gets shot dead at the end.
I didn't really read this book as a child; I just skimmed it, well enough to remember some of it later I guess. I rather wonder why my parents even had it at all; maybe they were bored at an airport one day, because it seems like the kind of book you'd buy when there was no better reading material available.
~Chara