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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJFK's last speech, Ft. Worth TX, before heading to Dallas. JFK talk begins at 32 minutes into video
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JFK's last speech, Ft. Worth TX, before heading to Dallas. JFK talk begins at 32 minutes into video (Original Post)
msongs
Jun 2021
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My parents had been invited to the breakfast. My father was a businessman and my
Grammy23
Jun 2021
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MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)1. Just so horribly sad
What a magnificent person JFK was...
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)2. I saw him when I was five years old.
He was the father of Medicare and the Civil Rights law. Oh, if only he had lived!
2 Meow Momma
(6,682 posts)3. My mother shook his hand in Ft Worth that day, the day he was killed. nt
Grammy23
(5,813 posts)4. My parents had been invited to the breakfast. My father was a businessman and my
My mom was a nurse. They both made the decision to work that day so did not attend the breakfast, something both regretted. When I returned home from high school later that afternoon, the neighborhood was swarming with FBI and police. It turned out that Lee Harvey Oswalds mother lived a short distance away from our house literally separated by a track at the Jr. High School across the street. We could see all the commotion but only learned later why they were there. It was a very sad time and only got more dramatic as Oswald was gunned down on live tv a few days later. The real grief and trauma settled over the entire country and remained that way for several months.
msongs
(67,441 posts)5. I was in jr high in england at the time so no connection with his death really except
my dad was USAF and they were all called in to be on alert right away.