I got out of the hospital that day after a breast biopsy..that was when they had you check in the day before, surgery the next day, home the next. After I got home, a friend called to see if I had my TV on..WHY would I have the TV on in the middle of the day? On Sunday, she did the same - when Oswald was shot...I still have a tape recording of the DRUMS at the funeral. I remember most of that day - the family on the steps of the Cathedral, young John saluting, the horse “Blackjack” with the rider’s boot backward in the stirrup...I read later that Jackie’s dad’s nickname was “Blackjack” and they didn’t want to tell her the name of the horse.. Also Ted was wearing a suit of Robert’s or vice versa....
In the following years, I read every book I could find on the family...Rose running her family like an Army General - I guess with the number of kids she had, she had no choice.
‘Fess up — in those days, I voted Democrat!! Had pictures of JFK on the wall in my living room for years.
My Dad always said JFK was the last good Democrat.
My old man was a pretty smart guy, in retrospect.
Tv in those days was not much on in the daytime.
Interesting about the horse. I just saw the horse watching the Rumble link janetjanet998 put up. Thank you, janetjanet998.
DLfromthedesert I get it. Seeing your mother cry, painful. If one hadn’t been ‘there’ on that day I don’t think it’s completely able to ‘know’ and why we don’t forget.