62 years ago, today....

Posted by: @sizedoesmatter

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Posted by: @perrone1

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Posted by: @chris

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She and her husband were both killed in a car accident in 2003.

I'm so sorry to hear that Tony; some things you never get over - you just learn to live with it.

Thank you Chris and, perfectly said! 

 

Tony, I recall that tragic chapter in your life.  The D4C community was devastated when we heard the news. May they rest in peace.

 

@perrone1 What a tragedy Tony and I am so sorry for your lose even these years later. I was 23 when President Kennedy was assassinated after only about six months prior having the opportunity to shake his hand  in St. Louis. The sad thing about history is that when the people were alive to experience it die, the memories begin to die with them. This progression is accelerated today by our schools no longer teaching history.

Time marches on. Shocking events are remembered by those of us who lived through them but for the rest, unless taught, they lose their significance.
I was teaching students when the Kennedy assassination happened in November 1963. I heard about it over the pa. I was in the casino in Monte Carlo when the attack on the Twin Towers occurred in September 2001. I suspect all of us who lived through these significant events, and others, know what we were doing at the time. Our memories honour those lost and the more seemingly innocent world that existed prior to the events.

@perrone1 Tony, I too am sorry to hear that my friend. God bless you. You'll see them again one day.🙏👼

I was only 1 at the time. I dont remember,  but I remember learning of it in school, even at a young age. Horrendous to say the least. As many other events just in my lifetime, so far.😥

I was at a birthday party in kindergarten when the volunteer came in and blurted the story out in front of the class.  We were sent home immediately.  I remember watching the funeral on TV and my mom kept the LOOK magazines that carried the articles about it.  It is sort of surreal watching it on TV in 1963 in black and white and moving DC in 1985 and seeing the grave in color.

I was 10 when this happened…got sent home from school…also watched Oswald get shot…

I was 12 years old when Kennedy was killed.  For my youth, it was the biggest and most tragic news event ever for me.  I watched the entire "live" broadcasts of the assassination and follow-up shooting of Oswald.  As for the modern world not knowing about it, most of that is because today kids don't have a clue about history and could care less.  Kennedy's most famous words, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country", mean absolutely nothing to the young ones today!  

@perrone1 

So sorry Tony. 

Posted by: @100ford2003

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@perrone1 

So sorry Tony. 

Thank you Steve!!

I was 10 and in school at St.James the Less in Depew, NY when President Kennedy was shot. I remember running home crying so I could watch tv. Even at 10 President Kennedy was special to me as I believed he was "our country's future". In '68 I got to meet Bobby when he had a rally at Bolsa Grande HS here in Garden Grove, CA. I'll never forget that and the early morning phone call from my Dad to wake me up and tell me as I thought Bobby was going to be a "hero" too. Funny now how my politics have changed. 

Steve 

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"I was 23 when President Kennedy was assassinated after only about six months prior having the opportunity to shake his hand in St. Louis."

That's amazing; I assume it was at Lambert Field... 

 I was in second grade and the Nuns were taking us back to class. The school janitor said he had heard that Kennedy had been shot. By the time we headed home, we knew he had died. When I got home my Father had got of work early and was at home.  I was relieved to see him. My Father did not like Kennedy and every time he heard the name, he would get extreme in his comments. Being young, I thought there may have been a chance he had shot Kennedy.

I was 10 and home from school that day having a peanut butter and banana sandwich for lunch out on our back porch. The WGN noon news may have been on the radio when my Grandma suddenly motioned for me to be quiet and listen to the stunning bulletin from Dallas. And I remember much more from that weekend. With my degrees being in History, I have felt we shouldn't have to be thinking about having more items declassified 62 years after the fact .....

@michaeldetorrice have felt we shouldn't have to be thinking about having more items declassified 62 years after the fact .....

IMHO this fact pretty much sums up the conspiracy theory.