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DENNIS
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ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU......
Something was nagging me about today's date, then it came to me. The anniversary of the assassination of JFK in 1963.
Jeeeezo....47 years ago.
RIP
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Bajahowodd
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I absolutely recall that. I was still in high school. But, sad as it was, later on, I got hooked up into the Bobby Kennedy campaign. I was absolutely
positive that RFK was going to make this country great. I was at the Ambassador that night. Far from the inner circle. If anything, one might wonder
if there was a connection between these two tragic events. Whither goest our nation?
I still love baja!
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tiotomasbcs
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Wood, you were at the Ambassador?!! People had faith in their candidates, then. Ronald Regan was already an old, Hollywood B Movie hero, not! Now,
all we have are billionaires and Corporations. Let's all pray! I'm hidin out in my little hole!! Tio 
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Just asked my 15 year old son...if anything was said today in class(s) about the anniversary of the assassination of JFK. No. Nothing. Nada.
....and he attends a college prep school!
I forgot too I must say. JFK was a gift
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tiotomasbcs
Now, all we have is billionaires Tio |
Instead of the poverty struck Kennedys.
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We had a guest 3 weeks ago who was related to the Kennedy's. And she now lives in La Jolla. Small world. Sad day in history
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I will never forget the day as they shuffled us out into the school yard and announced to us what had just happened. Can't believe how much time has
passed...
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I heard it in the garden from the neighbors radio who had left his window open. It made no sense. Assassinations weren't supposed to happen in this
country. It just wasn't right.
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MrBillM
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You Just Never KNOW .................
When things are Bad, How much WORSE they can get.
IF Oswald had known how Lyndon would turn out, he "might" have changed his mind. Assuming he actually did it.
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I was shooting a rooster in a South Dakota cornfield row next to the car..and heard it on the radio. A very clear memory still. I shook his hand
when he lectured my freshman class..and wept with the news of his death....and I was a Republican even then.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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The day is etched in my memory as well. I was coming in from gym class and as we walked by the ROTC office they were lowering the flag.
Ken
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I was sitting on the back of my grandmother's couch. We were playing beauty parlor, I was doing her hair. I remember her crying quietly as I combed
out her hair, while Walter Cronkite announced his death. I didn't understand. I was only two years old, but I remember it.
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I was listening to the radio with my mom, who was ironing.
I remember the sound of the announcer's voice, as though he was in a dream. My mom went completely still. Suddenly I felt like a very small child
and sat on the floor underneath the sheet my mom had been ironing.
nena
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
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I remembered the importance of the date as I was opening my appointment calendar this morning: ....it was a cool sunny morning in Manitoba....I was
in grade 7....it had a strong impact on Canadians as well 
Don't believe everything you think....
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Let out early in 2nd grade and my bus driver was crying-noone had told us-he did and we did not believe him-got home and my mom was crying-and
crying-and crying.
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I was going to mention this in class tonight. College students are so out of touch with history. I wanted to describe how the principal called a
fire drill and we all lined up in the parking lot in neat rows as the teachers made their counts to make sure everyone was present. Then the
principal come out and announced that the president had been killed and the school was closing. We all went home.
Everything closed: schools, businesses, government offices. Sacramento was like a ghost town if anyone had gone out to see, but no one did. Everyone
was home, grieving for the nation. I seem to recall that the networks stopped programming, as it just didn’t seem appropriate to laugh with a variety
show under the circumstances, but the memory of a 10 year old may be faulty.
We watched in black and white as a weary Walter Cronkite stayed on long past his shift and reported the tragedy with the even-handed facts and
compassion for which he has become famous. Today’s college kids would likely find Cronkite-style reporting boring and turn the channel to the
screamers. Those bullets struck all of us, though only one physically died.
I meant to say all of that, but the lab ran over and time ran out and I never had the chance. Maybe it is for the best—I like to end class on a high
note.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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MrBillM
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Everybody Remembers
But, NO Tears. Not mine and not any of my friends. One member of my family (paternal grandmother-1st Generation Irish-American Catholic Cur-Dog
Democrat). She told me it was the fault of people like me who generated so much hatred for Jacko. Wouldn't talk to me after that for quite awhile,
but she got over it.
The worst part of the whole business was the TOTAL Blackout of any other TV coverage. While early on the event was interesting, it got boring and, in
those pre-cable days, there weren't many choices.
There was a lot of post-pop hope among our crowd, but that was dashed by his successor.
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Pompano
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I think you missed the point of JFK's popularity and why most all US citizens and the rest of the world liked him.
He was part of everyone's dream...Camelot and all.
Who cared what his politics or abilities were?
But maybe that was just me...and a few of mi amigos. Hey, I had long hair and played a damn banjo.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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DENNIS
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I believe the signicance of the incident has evolved from the fact that we lost a very popular president and man.
What history, from the moment of his murder to the present day, has illustrated is that violent death can be an expected method of showing dissent.
"If you don't like the man, just kill him."
We've gone a long way backwards.
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Pompano
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Sadly, you are right, Dennis. More's the pity.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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