"KENNEDY WAY GETS ITS NAME: Lisburn Rural District Council has just put up the official signs on Kennedy Way, a thoroughfare which becomes Northern Ireland’s first tribute to the late American President, who was shot dead in Dallas, Texas, in November, 1963. Shortly after his death a householder in the Turf Lodge area made overtures to Belfast Corporation for one of their streets to be named after the President, but the Estates and Markets Committee pointed out that the thoroughfare had already been named Monagh Road for over a year. This thoroughfare continues into Rural Council territory and, as it had not been designated already, they decided to fall in with the wishes of their ratepayer by calling it Kennedy Way." Belfast News-Letter Wednesday 03 February 1965.
Note that the Kennedy Centre, located nearby on Falls Road, is named after businessman Hugh Kennedy, who established the supermarket Curley’s in 1981.