They never make a big deal about Garfield or McKinley. When can we forget about the Kennedy family?
Lived in Irving Texas about 1 mile from Lee Harvey Oswalds house (the one where he is holding the rifle). I was 3 months into first grade, 6 years old.
By a commie freak like the ones a lot of morons living here reelected in November. Like the commies here today, Oswald was probably offended by that “ask what you can do for your country” thing.
Oswald did it with a knife in the kitchen.
“Rest in peace Mr. President (JFK), through your wisdom and strength, since your tragic death, Patriots have planned, installed, and by the grace of God, activated, the beam of LIGHT. We will forever remember your sacrifice. May you look down from above and continue to guide us as we ring the bell of FREEDOM and destroy those who wish to sacrifice our children, our way of life, and our world. We, the PEOPLE.”
Prayer said every single day in the OO.
JFK - Secret Socities.
Where we go one, we go all.
Just pulled in the parking lot from lunch when my buddy and I heard. Nobody believed us at first when we ran inside and told folks. 🤔
My very first retained childhood memory. How nice for me...../s
It was the death of innocence in our country. I remember the principal coming on the intercom at school announcing that The President had been killed. Then he told everyone to head out front to the bus staging area to go home. We didn’t come back until after Thanksgiving. We all just sat at home and watched the TV coverage all day. Everyone was in shock.
And all we heard at the reception was "do you know that Kennedy was assassinated on this date?"
I skipped school that day (9th grade) and was watching TV when he was shot...
My mom was a telephone operator at the time and I called to tell her what happened...I was on the phone for about two hours while she relayed what was going on with the other operators....
I was 15 years old and a friend came running up to me at my locker and told me the President had been shot. By the time we all made it home (early) mom had the TV on and the President had died. A horrible weekend....it was like the world stood still. So sad and so dark. I wouldn’t wish this experience on my worst enemy.
On this anniversary a number of articles used to appear talking about Dallas being a center for right-wing extremists. I remember one particular article that said Kennedy was in danger because Dallas was a seething cauldron of right wing hatred. If you were younger and didn’t remember what happened, and who was involved, you would come away believing that the John Birch Society was responsible.
The articles deliberately concealed the fact that Oswald was a Socialist, who had defected to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics earlier in his life, and returned with a Russian wife.
I haven’t seen these articles in the past few years, there’s probably a few that will show up. Tell your kids or grandkids, it was a Socialist who killed JFK.
Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis also died the same day
ML/NJ
59 years later and there are still a lot of unanswered questions. In my opinion, every anniversary adds to the questions and myths with no answers in sight.
Sorta reminds me of the The Lost Dutchman. The longer the unanswered questions are not answered, the longer the list ofd legends & myths grow
I was in elementary school watching educational TV with my classmates and a teacher came in and broke the news. They had the older students (like me) watch over the younger students as we lined up for the school buses to take us home. The staff was afraid the little ones would be so upset, they’d run out into traffic.
