Maybe because this is the Dallas area, but today has always been something special here. I thought quite a few Gatherites would have posted their tributes. All the threats being tossed around about Obama being assassinated brings this to mind, too. A man who has a lot to offer, cut down too early for serving his country.
I was a sophomore in high school in Dallas when it happened. They announced over the PA system that the president had been shot. My reaction was to say something like, "Just what we need, something else to make Dallas' reputation worse." Dallas was a conservative city and many had wondered how good a reception the president would get, even with our beloved LBJ coming with him. I loved politics and watched both party conventions.
We sat there in class for a long time. Then they let us go home. We learned that JFK had died. The city shut down. No restaurants, theaters, bowling alleys, nothing stayed open.
Every year there is a small tribute by each of the television stations. Some day soon, none of the anchors will have been alive when this tragedy struck us all.
Where were you when you heard about the assassination?
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My parents hadn't been married very long when this happened.
I know Obama wants to be the next JFK, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and who ever the flavore of the day is, but he is never going to be them, he has to learn who he is first.
JFK knew who he was, and had some very good views, as well as bad (he was human after all). It is hard to know what the reason was he was assinated for, but a few things still keep popping up, Ladybird's want to continue the Nam war, issues with Russia (Oswald had lived in Russia for a time), mob issues, and so much more. SO guess we'll never know who or why he was targetted for.
Just want to say ( Elizabeth ) Great Post!
JFK was assassinated on 22 November 1963 at 12:30 pm CST in Dallas, Texas.
He was pronounced dead at 1:00 pm.
Who will you service on this day, The Lord with a kind word of hope, or the flesh with a discourage word? The Choice is your.
I watched this story develop from beginning to end. In our house and just about every African American household, there was this picture of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
The fact that all 3 were assassinated devastated our psychic and left a huge void, a void that President Obama seems to be filling.
Thanks for posting this article.
Your friend.
Lloyd
P.S. If you have the time, I'd be honored if you posted this article at our group, Barack Obama's Presidential Appointments, Bills and Policies.
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I don't remember the shooting. I was 5 or 6 y/o. I do very vividly remember the funeral. Watching Jon-Jon salute & the horse with the boots backward....I remember crying.
I was not born yet
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not even born yet LOL but my first husbands mother was giving birth to him on that day and at that time and watching it on tv
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I was either cleaning house where I could hear the TV or standing in front of it ironing as I was accoustomed to doing during the day.
I think my comment dissappeared. I was near the television within hearing range, when they broke into the program I was listening to or watching and announced it and that was all that was on for the balance of the day.
I can see from the posts not many of us are older on Gather. We didn't have a television, so I didn't learn about it for many days after it happened. I was at home when it happened. It was a sad time for the United States and I felt so bad for his son. It was so sad to see him at the funeral, as he looked like he needed a quick hug.
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I was not born yet.
However I have visited the memorial, the Texas school book depository and the JFK museum several times. I have read much about the man and the assassination. I have come to believe that JFK was a great man who unified the American spirit and brought many benefits to America. I believe he would have continued to do so in life and also did even in death.
I can only imagine those who watched it on television must have felt as I did the day I walked by my TV to get a cup of coffee and saw the first reports of 911 and then watched live as the second plane hit and the towers collapsed.
NOW THIS IS IN THE ERA OF US DOING DRILLS FOR ATTACKS FROM CUBA....we thought we werefixing to be bombed or similar. We were used to drills for running to take cover/shelter. Rumors were running rambid among the little kids ....were were terrified.
Finally the principal had everyone of us taken to the gym where he made an announcement to let us know what had happen......as little kids were could only understand that it was the president....WE WERE NOT ALL FIXING TO DIE...
When we had seen all the teachers crying and dazed---we had thought we were in a hopeless situation and were all going to die without or mommies and daddies.
What a memory...................the teachers not understanding, scolding us for stopping crying when we were told the president was dead.
It was a wild time to grow up, pictures of war casualties on the front page. Big brothers of school mates going to Vietnam and dieing from granades.
I had the tv on but was not watching it. I stood there watching the men working. Then all of a sudden the men started collecting their stuff (they weren't done with the job and I wondered how come they had stopped working) reached down to turn their (battery) radio off and climbed down the ladder, got into their truck and left. I turned in wonder to the tv and just then, heard Walter Cronkite announce that the president was dead. He looked at the tv station clock it was (I think 1:20 p.m.) and he broke down emotionally but quickly got hold of himself.
I was in the same stage of life as Jacqueline Kennedy was having two kids. I sent her a letter of sympathy and received a black trimmed thank you card that was sent in return with no stamp just her name scrolled across it. (I still have it.)
The whole world shut down that week.
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