"What airport was known as ""Idlewild Airport"" when planned in the late 1930s, was renamed ""Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport"" when construction began in 1943, then ""New York International Airport, Anderson Field"" when flights began in 1948, had another name change in 1963?"
John F. Kennedy International Airport assassination. John F. Kennedy International Airport was originally called Idlewild Airport after the Idlewild Beach Golf Course that it displaced. It was built to relieve LaGuardia Airport, which had become overcrowded after its 1939 opening. Construction began in 1943, and about US$60 million were initially spent with governmental funding, but only of the Idlewild Golf Course site were earmarked for use. In 1943, the project was renamed Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport, after a Queens resident who had commanded a Federalized National Guard unit in the southern United States and died in late 1942. In March 1948, the New
John F. Kennedy International Airport York City Council changed the name to New York International Airport, Anderson Field, but the common name was "Idlewild" until the end of 1963. The Port of New York Authority (now the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) leased the Idlewild property from the City of New York in 1947 and maintains this lease today. The first flight from Idlewild was on July 1, 1948; the opening ceremony was attended by then U.S. President Harry S. Truman. The Port Authority canceled foreign airlines' permits to use LaGuardia, forcing them to move to Idlewild during the next couple of