Posted on 11/22/2013 10:10:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Their beloved womanizing President. Wow.
Glad you made it back!
Yeah...he was a Dem and personally, a scumbag. But he had some Conservative principles at heart.
I was in US Navy boot camp - San Diego.
I was never musically gifted either, though I wasn’t around then.
The radio he turned on was not playing a lot of Beatles music. They didn’t hit until Feb of 1964. Maybe the author also watched the Zapruder film that afternoon, too. /s
I was only 5 years and 1 day old. All I remember from television back then was watching "Sky King" and "Supercar".
I never really liked JFK but I find this interesting. I was in the sorority house with the radio on, and the DJ interrupted and said we have a message from ABC. after the message , station went back to music I was puzzled.. like I couldn’t believe it. Turned on TV and regular programs were still running. The radio bulletin said the Pres. had been shot in the head. then the DJ realized that he should take off the music. That was the only time I heard he was shot in the head till he was announced dead.
Mr. Noble’s 5th grade class, at Fruitland elementary.
Didn’t know the word “assassination” at that moment.
That would change when they wheeled the TV cart into the room, after lunch.
Mr. Noble was emotional and upset, which was my first clue as to the severity of the situation. He was a 22 yr. old, newly minted teacher.
Just getting home from HS it was on the tube, as mom was normally watching her soaps at that hr.
“CAUSED”
Uh...that would be the guys moving the missiles to Cuba.
High school music class when the announcement and then the network radio feed came over the intercom. Pretty much the whole school was in the chapel within an hour of the event.
People complain about all the attention unjustly lavished on JFK, and they’re right that he was grossly over-glamorized. But he was a damn-sight better than the clowns the Dems have stuck us with lately, and I think they miss the larger point: that day in November was the end of the innocence of the fifties, which for most folks was a wonderful decade. The decadence of the sixties would begin in early February of 1964 when the Beatles landed in the US.
I’m not real sure what decade the two intervening months belonged to - we were all pretty much in a daze then.
” “children, what will happen now?” We all replied, “the Soviets will take over.””
It took about 50 years, but the children were right.
Well then: Thank you, sir.
I was just over 4 yrs old, living in North Richland Hills, just NW of Dallas. I don’t remember the day of the assassination but do clearly remember the day of the funeral and the very contrasted, silvery live images on the TV.
In response to Kennedy placing missiles in Turkey.
He reads today as a right winger.
This is the opportunity to use that historical reality.
So, great post.
Great point.
Good!
We need to do that again!
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