Posted on 11/22/2025 3:54:18 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, riding in the same car as Kennedy, was seriously wounded. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.
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I was seven years old at the time - and I remember my mother running outside where I was playing with a friend and screaming “The President Has Been Shot!!”
I also remember seeing the funeral procession on TV - in black and white, of course.
I was too young at the time to understand the full implications of what had happened.
LHO was a CIA agent (patsy).
21 years old; married Paul Quesinberry (also a teacher) less than three months later; relocated to the Bay Area a few years later.
Regards,
Cronkite just *knew* it had to be a Right-Winger that did it.
It was a pro hit don’t believe Oswald was it more of a handy decoy.
The bullet count to the skull faded fast.
So you figure the CIA regularly hired mentally disturbed high school dropout losers to be their “agents.” Who would have guessed it?
I remember it like it was yesterday also. We were sitting in class and an announcement came across the intercom that the President had been shot. Then about a half hour later another announcement came that said President Kennedy was dead and everyone should go outside and wait for the busses to take us home.
School was suspended until after Thanksgiving. Everyone just sat home watching the TV all day. A nation in mourning. Looking back on it years later I realized that that event was the death of innocence in the United States. Everything changed after that.
I’m not a pro, not even a Marine Corp marksman like Oswald was, but I have looked out those same windows that Oswald looked out of and realized I could have made those same shots. It would have been easy… less than 100 yards.
I’d recommend you visit the 6th Floor Museum in Dallas something to rid yourself of the idea that it took some kind of miracle marksman to do this. Even a looser like Oswald could and did do it.
I’m not a pro, not even a Marine Corp marksman like Oswald was, but I have looked out those same windows that Oswald looked out of and realized I could have made those same shots. It would have been easy… less than 100 yards.
Showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do.
I have visited the Sixth Floor museum in Dallas as well, and had the same thought as you when I looked out the sixth floor window. What an easy shot it would have been.
Same family but different tragedy.
Just read that Caroline’s daughter, Tatiana, is revealing that she has terminal cancer and given one year left to live.
I will pray for this young mother of 2.
Best I can tell, the only person still alive that was remotely involved with JFK’s assassination is Oswald’s teenage Russian bride, Marina. Now Marina Porter, she’s a naturalized American citizen living in Texas (of all places).
In 2nd grade about 60 miles north of Dallas. They called us in from recess early. Mrs. Moody, in tears, gave us the news.
I watched the murder of Oswald live that Sunday morning. My parents were in the other room. I went to my mom and said they shot the man who shot the president. My mom would not believe me. I almost didn’t believe my eyes. Did I really see that? What did I just see?
After pestering my mom for several minutes about it, she came in, saw the TV and her face was aghast.
My Mom and I were both watching TV when Oswald was assassinated. She was ironing cloths and screamed. She said watch this this is history. So my first childhood memory is of a murder live on TV. Isn’t that wonderful?
The movie “Parkland” is on YouTube.
As usual, Billy Bob Thornton was great.
“Yesterday, I lost my man!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTN947b3H
I was in third grade, at Newport Beach Elementary school, and home sick with a cold. I was playing Barbie, watching the Superman episode of I Love Lucy, when the announcement came that the president had been shot. My mom didn’t believe me when I walked in the kitchen and told her. She didn’t believe it until he was pronounced dead. I remember watching when Oswald was shot as we were all sitting on the couch, watching him walk that narrow passage way. I remember it like it was yesterday. No TV but the news, which bummed me out.
Amazing
Different ammo is not a match his angle wasn’t even right.
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