Venereal disease infested reprobate.
In 2013 I breathed a sigh of relief. 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Ted Kennedy dead. No Kennedy’s in positions of real power. I figured the Cult of Worship of JFK was going to end. 50th anniversary was one thing, but who would care about the 51st anniversary??
And here we are in 2016, still genuflecting to the dead guy. Kripes.
A prepositional phrase to modify the term should be employed by all:
‘JFK’s assassination by a communist.’
I was at Love Field that morning standing at the fence next to the plane when JFK and Jackie came walking by shaking hands it certainly doesn’t seem like yesterday to me.
Just rolled back into the high school parking lot from lunch when my buddy and I heard it on the radio. We rushed inside and nobody believed us. Until 20 minutes later. Has it been that long? Holy crap. Time flies.
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Soon, our list of Freepers that can still relate their memories of just where they were when they first heard the news will be dwindling.
We each have our tales of where we were when - For me a short list -
Sputnik launched by Soviets,
Hemmingway took his own life,
Blockade of Cuba -
For older Freepers -
They must cherish - Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the Atomic Bomb, maybe the death of FDR
My take away from then.. The Zapruder film. Remarkable that History could be captured for study through the ages.
I was alive then but too young to remember - still in diapers. Would have loved to have lived the 1960s as an adult. So much happened that decade and I missed almost all of it because I was just a little kid.
1) I don’t give a rat’s patoot about JFK. He’s dead, Jim. And his degenerate family has ridden his halo long enough.
2) I couldn’t care less about some scumbag reporter’s recollection of the assassination. Go reminisce to your grandkids and keep your memoirs to yourself.
3) Camelot was a myth ... in both its Arthurian and Kennedian incarnations. What ended on Nov. 22, 1963, was a dream. Unfortunately, it was followed by the LBJ nightmare.
JFK’s death brought LBJ to power which was the start of the era of genuflecting to minorities in return for voting democrat.
Maybe that’s why JFK was assassinated to begin with.
LBJ with his Great Society and War On Poverty created a culture that has taken more American lives and damaged America and the US Constitution more than WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and all the Gulf wars combined.
It sounds as if he is longing to hear about a presidential assassination again, and so puts the story out now... of all times.
Ancient history.
Why is this being talked about?
JFK is ancient history and about as memorable as stories of Teddy Roosevelt. The only people who still remember it are old retirees in their late 60+ years. JFK and “Camelot” is irrelevant.
My family lived in the DC area and we had gone to the JFK inauguration. First political event for me so the assination was of great interest to me.
It seems like yesterday, because the Liberal media drag this event through the sewer every damn November and don’t forget this happened “in the hostile south”!
If I hear that B.S. line again, I am going to PUKE!! JFK won Texas by 46K votes! He was not hated in Texas.
He was hated by Communists and by the Mob and by Cuba...you get the picture, right?!? But, when discussing and dragging this up every year, Communism is rarely mentioned, and if it is, it is pretty much just in passing about Oswald’s time in Russia.
Let the man RIP!!
I was living in Lowell at the time. We were let out of school early. I went to the church to pray.
I was in the 3rd grade in Mississippi......................
I’d just gotten home from the hospital after a breast biopsy - the days when you went in a day before, and spent the day of and day after...A friend called to ask if I had my TV on. The same friend called again on Sunday to ask the same question when Oswald was shot. What different times - I don’t recall ever having TV on during the day. Evenings for the news after work was it.
I don’t understand the vitriol and hatred here for JFK. He didn’t set out to do anything to damage or destroy the United States and he wasn’t a democrat of the caliber of the dems today. Nowhere near! I would imagine that is coming from those who are saying they were in 1st grade or high school in 1963 and have let more recent years of democrat rule tarnish the history of JFK. Don’t judge democrats of the past with the democrats of the current time. There’s no question THEY WANT to destroy the U.S. We would consider ourselves lucky if those KIND had never entered our lives. Different world - different time.
Boring JFK funeral and TV coverage for what seemed to go on forever.
I was in my fourth grade class when the PA system came on with a feed from local radio news. Back then we weren’t shielded from history and news but encouraged to know it and consume it. I recall that as we assembled, calm and subdued, to go out to the busses home we talked about how weird it sounded to say “President Johnson”.