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TODAY's Hugh Downs and NBC Washington Correspondent Martin Agronsky discuss the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald on November 25, 1963.

I was 21 at the time. I still remember the liberty we lost before and after he was killed and the hysteria of the news media while promoting shutting down the rights of the American People.

Young people today do not realize what rights were lost when that happened.

To me that photo makes light of a serious situation. Annoying. There is a murder live on tv of a man we desperately needed to know what's what and some idiot makes a fake 'funny' photo out of it. Here's a real photo. Closed the book on finding out from Oswald anything.

I remember seeing that happen as a little child, I was 5 going on 6. I don’t remember being particularly shocked by it, but I might have run out of shock at that point.

My mother hated JFK with the burning passion of a thousand suns. Every Sunday she would go to Mass and then come home and rail about Kennedy for the rest of the day. Yet when he was shot she cried and cried, and she never cried about anything. I was SO confused. I said “But Mom, you hate him.” and she said “But he’s our President!”

I never will forget that moment. I have two younger brothers who never remembered a bit of it, but I realized then that the world was much larger and far more complex than I knew.

And then Televsion was ruined for about a week. Which was also shocking to me. So when I saw Lee Oswald get gunned down on TV I honestly was just not that surprised, or frightened, but even at that point I feel like I perceived a fix was in, although I would not have put it that way, obviously. But it just all seemed a tad too convenient.

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