Posted on 11/22/2024 2:58:47 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas
At about 1:30 PM on another Friday in November some 61 years ago, Mr. Lew Hitch announced to the biology class, that the President had been shot in Dallas. Within the hour we learned that John F. Kennedy had died from his wounds. I think that for most of us, it was the largest dose of bad news our country had ever experienced.
1200 or so high schoolers took the early dismissal announcement in quiet sadness and made our ways home where other shocking events would be learned over the next three days.
The Nation wept. Our Camelot era was over. November 22, 1963, became a date to be recalled every year for perhaps 25-30 years longer.
We hardly knew where a country called Vietnam was located, but we all were about to figure that out.
The assassination of the President would be the Nation's singular most tragic event until September 11, 2001.
For my generation, November 22, 1963, was the day we all grew up a bit.
It was my fifth birthday and all the adults were glued to the TV for at least three days. I was a child but I remember that period well. Especially when Caroline Kennedy put her hand under the flag draped coffin to get closer to her late father. That I remember very well as well as the funeral.
The main reason we mourn after all these years is because we are not sure at all that LHO pulled the trigger. For so as long as that case remains an open mystery...the pain will not ebb.
Fourth grade, I was pushing the film projector cart back to the media room when the teacher with me asked if I knew that Kennedy had been shot. I thought the joke wasn’t very funny. An hour later I was home early, glued to the TV.
7th grade...math, I think.
We left early. Got home to my tearful mother and the drama narrated by Uncle Walter on CBS. We went out that night to buy newspapers to preserve the headlines.
Sunday morning we watched LHO get shot, live!
Probably the most astounding few days I can recall.
Not one jot or tittle of this travesty should remain classified.
This cover-up has been a perpetual violation of the trust of the American people, past, present and future.
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I was six years old and don’t remember it.
After reading your post, the first thing that came to my mind is, the CIA/FBI is still trying to kill people that don’t go along with the deep state.
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AMEN. It’s long past time. Perhaps Robert Kennedy, Jr will take this one on.
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The principal giving a speech over the scratchy intercom. The little wooden box over the chalkboard at the front of the class that almost never squawks at us, other than the morning National Anthem and announcements. Teachers crying in the stairwell. Everyone walking around muted. Traffic moving slower, less aggressively.
Home to the TV, small, black and white, snowy, old men with suits and heavy glasses talking seriously. No cartoons allowed. No Soupy Sales. No Sandy Becker today.
Dad comes home from work and just looks at mom. Tells the kids to go wash up for dinner.
The official explanation was that Oswald acted alone - he fired three bullets from behind the motorcade, the first was the “magic bullet” which entered the back of JFKs neck and went down to Connally’s arm and leg; the second missed; the third was the head shot. The “magic bullet” theory requires that the second bullet have entered the back of the President’s neck - could someone explain why Gerry Ford, a Warren Commission member, in 1997 publicly admitted that he had moved the bullet hole on the official autopsy drawing of the Warren Commission from JFK’s mid-back to the back of the neck?? (this is from an online article from the NY Times in 1997). Second, why was there an incoming bullet in the front windshield and why was that windshield immediately replaced by Ford/Lincoln when the limo was taken to Dearborn the following Monday for a fix over? Third, why did the emergency room personnel state on the day of the murder that the bullet in JFK’s neck came from the front, only to recant after visits from the FBI, those remaining alive a few years ago reaffirmed in a video only released last year?
In study hall. I remember the announcement over the PA system saying that these had been a tragedy — that JFK had been shot. I remember one of the guys saying, “The only tragedy is that he isn’t dead”. (Of course, he was dead; we just didn’t know it.)
In our neck of the woods, JFK wasn’t popular so nobody had a huge reaction and nobody cried. (As opposed to my mother who bawled like a baby the night he was elected.)
Those are all good reasons not to believe anything the government tells us.
I’m of the belief that if Oswald DID shoot Kennedy, he wasn’t alone. There were other players. That’s just what I believe.
Our high school had one principal, a vice principal, one guidance counsellor and a secretary.
Grief had to be dealt with on our own time.
Disputes were settled with fists on a country corner about a half mile away from school. We had rifles or shotguns in our vehicles, but nobody ever thought about using them over a teenage disagreement.
Same for me, too.
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Agree! Even now, 61 years later, we deserve to know the truth.
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