Posted on 11/22/2010 8:45:12 AM PST by NEWwoman
Remembering the Fateful Day in Dallas When President John F. Kennedy Was Assassinated
CBS) It seems so long ago, and so recent.
Those of a certain age will remember where they were 47 years ago today when they heard about the shots ringing out in Dallas. Subsequent assassinations of public figures did not quell the pain felt by the nation when President John F. Kennedy was killed, less than three years after entering office, at the age of 46.
Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was waving to the cheering crowd as his motorcade passed the Texas School Book Depository on Elm Street when gunfire was heard.
The president slumped into the back seat of his open limousine with gaping wounds in his head and neck.
He lost consciousness immediately.
JFK: The Assassination (Photos)
A third bullet tore through the chest and arm of Texas Governor John B. Connally, Jr, who was riding in the limo along with the Kennedys.
The car sped to nearby Parkland Hospital where the president, 46, was pronounced dead 30 minutes later.
The governor's wounds were severe but not fatal. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, seated next to her husband, was not injured.
Two hours after the shooting, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald and charged him with murder.
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Pleased to meet you....but I didn’t catch your name.
Get ready for the attacks. I am also of that opinion. When this happened I remember my first thought was, LBJ did it. I am firmly convinced that he was part of this plan and if not a part of a conspiracy, he was fully briefed on the “correct” things to do.
I remember that day vividly. Unaware of Kennedy’s visit, my mom was trying to pass through Dealy Plaza and was stuck in traffic behind the motorcade a mere three blocks away. Meanwhile, I was in school (4th grade) when a girl stuck her head through the classroom door and announced the President had been shot. It was surreal and I scarcely believed it. However, I was later more distraught that regular TV programming was interrupted for three days. It seems hard now to imagine that some people such as my grandparents felt a collective shame that the President had been killed in “their” city. I heard not long afterward that LBJ had said that in 50 years he would be blamed. I hoped over the decades that the truth would gradually emerge, but too much time has passed, along with those that knew what happened.
My mother's comment is the same. She said the smirk on LBJ's face during his televised swearing in told her he had something to do with it. Interesting isn't it that our parents drew the same conclusion from watching the same event?
When Great Brittan was GREAT Brittan, Sir Winston Churchill was so revered that when he died he was given a place of exceptional honor in Westminster Cathedral, higher even then kings: he is entombed in the very center of the floor at one of the entrances to the cathedral so that it is impossible to miss him! What a tremendous honor and on-going reminder to England how great this man truly was. I was amazed when I saw this when I visited Westminster Cathedral.
I was 8 weeks past my 3rd birthday.I remember being very freaked out because I knew what dead was and I thought it only happened to old people who were sick as had happened to both of my grandfathers in the past year prior to this.I remember it was the first time I saw both of my parents cry.I think it was the first time I realized that there were many things they couldn’t fix.
Yup.
That’s quite a story that your mother was near there. And such a tragedy to happen in Texas. Texas really is a great state, size wise as well as upholding freedom.
Thanks for acknowledging his conservative, constitutional rightist position!
Way to go!
What a memory for three and that you realized that your parents couldn’t fix everything back then.
I was in second grade when our teacher told us the news. I remember going to church in the middle of the week, which was unusual.
Not really. I was a toddler.
I don't defend criminals, or liberals and by the time he left office, Nixon had become both.
Conspiracy theories aside. The roots of LBJ's Great Society programs can be found in FDR's New Deal, Truman's Fair Deal and JFK's New Frontier agenda. JFK was responsible for reintroducing food stamps, expanding anti-poverty programs, housing for the poor, increased Social Security and unemployment benefits, higher minimum wage and the biggest federal farm bill in 25 years. Without a doubt, JFK would have pushed through Medicare and other components of the Great Society programs.
Those are the facts.
While JFK was a Scoop Jackson Democrat, he was still a liberal on social policy. JFK knew that cutting taxes would increase revenue and that would help to pay for his New Frontier agenda and expanded welfare state. OTOH, JFK was no conservative. Far from it. And his WH open back-door policy with women which led to numerous abortions is not part of the conservative agenda that we follow here at FR.
Very similar experience. Myself third grade. I recall when the principal announced it over the PA and mentioning Dallas, Texas I imagined him being shot in an old west six gun shootout.
I was eight years old and watched a lot of Saturday afternoon westerns.
Yes, the Warren Commission, with Arlen Spector and his magic bullet theory.
It amazes me that even today people believe that Oswald acted alone. On the 40th anniversary it was all over the media, and they even created a cartoon reenactment that showed how Oswald could have fired the shots. They changed the angles to prove the bullet that went through his throat could have ended up in Connelly’s wrist. It was laughable.
The current misdirection now is that there are so many nuts and conspiracy peddlers out there, they make it seem like anyone who doesn't believe Oswald acted alone is a “nut”.
But spend even two hours researching the assassination, and you'll soon understand that Oswald did not act alone. A group of people put a plan together to kill Kennedy and they did.
You don't have to have all the answers, and I doubt the American people ever will. The mafia, LBJ, the Cubans, it doesn't matter who you think killed Kennedy.
If you do the research one thing is indisputable, that Lee Harvey Oswald did not, all by himself grab a rifle, go to work and kill the President of the US 47 years ago today. Anyone who believes he did it alone, is a moron.
Looking back and seeing how the truth has been buried from the public for years, not the truth of who was behind it, but the fact that Oswald was part of a plan to kill Kennedy, the fact that powerful forces conspired to kill Kennedy and got away with it.. this may go down as the turning point in American history.. the moment when the country was stolen from the people.
I have always believed that far more than Kennedy died that day.
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