…The renaming of the #KennedyCenter prompted a lawsuit from Rep #JoyceBeatty, Democrat of Ohio, correctly asserting that an act of #Congress is required to change the name.
In 1964, Congress designated the center as a memorial to President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated a year earlier. It opened in 1971 with the premiere performance of Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass,” which was commissioned by Kennedy’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.