Fifty-three years ago today

[ailsagirl]

I added this link:

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/anniversary-of-jfk-s-assassination-the-nation-s-only-irish-catholic-president

[Auggie]

1. Thank you

I was about to post this myself. I was 6 but remember it clear as a bell.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. And I still remember with great clarity our high school English teacher coming in to tell us

the news after we got to class after lunch. School let out immediately and we all went home and watched tv non-stop for days. It was a dark and terrible time.

[tenderfoot]

3. Mom was at the grocery store, pregnant with me - I was born a few weeks later.

eom

[ailsagirl]

4. Things were never the same for our country after that

[pangaia]

5. WHY? Why is this not all over 'news outlets?"

Whatever news outlets means?

Why? because most Americans probably never even heard of JFK.

And I went to his funeral.

[ailsagirl]

6. There seems to be a concerted effort to erase him from history

[ProfessorGAC]

9. The Docu Channels Have Been All Over This For 3 Days

Military History, NatGeo, Smithsonian, Military History, etc. That's all about all that was on yesterday on the last of those i listed.

On Edit: I know you said "News" outlets, but at least someone is doing it.

[Roland99]

10. 53 is not a "cool" anniversary number. Not like the 50th or 75th or whatever

[TNNurse]

7. Thanks

I have been sad how little attention this has gotten today

[question everything]

19. Well. There is a new movie coming called Jackie about her during these days

following the assassination. And it already is getting good reviews, before even being released.

With Natalie Portman.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jackie_2016/

[Omaha Steve]

8. Anybody here (Bobby too)

K&R!

OS

[question everything]

11. I remember every minute and every hour of this day

and will remember to the end of my life.

The funeral procession of the riderless horse and the drum beats still make both I and my spouse shiver..

[pangaia]

13. I was there.

I can play that cadence any time you like.

[ailsagirl]

15. You were there for the funeral? Tell us about it.

[pangaia]

18. I was a student at a college in upstate NY.

Several of us decided we would go to the funeral and drove all night, I think, to DC.

Stayed with a friend who lived sort of within walking distance. a LONG, LONG walking distance..
We stood at the end of the bridge the procession crossed. It was cold. Silent. If you google photos of the procession I am sure we are in one of the photos of the procession crossing the bridge.

On edit: I remember.. as a music student, when I heard the 'funeral march' I knew it was from one of the Chopin piano sonatas...in fact the 4 of us all knew it...

[ailsagirl]

20. Thanks for sharing

I remember the drum tempo quite clearly, as well as the tragic strains of Chopin's Funeral March

[pangaia]

21. It is interesting...

before we left AND after we returned, much the TV coverage, at least all I remember, used the 2nd movement from the Beethoven 7th Symphony as a background 'funeral march. It is actually marked Allegretto, but does sound a little funeral-like.

when actually the 2nd mvt in his 3rd Symphony IS marked Marcia funebre - Adagio assai .

[ailsagirl]

22. You are much more well-versed in classical music than I!!

So I don't even know how to reply-- intelligently, at least.

[pangaia]

24. Ha ha..don't worry about it.

It is what I did for decades.

[lostnfound]

17. I was only a baby but as idealistic Irish Catholic...JFK was a hero.. and I have a faint feeling

Deep in my memory of being in a place where all of the adults were suddenly filled with sorrow.

[heaven05]

12. another coup

in fact the first in my lifetime and I have seen three more since then- 2000-2004-2016. PTB don't like you you're dead, otherwise they will, if they want you in bad enough, install their candidate and make us think we lost the election. I fear since 63 the charade has been ongoing culminating with our new fuhrer. I really do wish we had another Kennedy, but all that had a chance at POTUS ended up assassinated or dead in a plane malfunction.....

[Vinca]

14. I can't get the sound of the drums out of my head.

This event is as clear in my mind as anything that has happened in my life and it's still heartbreaking.

[deurbano]

16. I was in 4th grade and didn't understand what the big deal was at first. My parents hated JFK.

We had moved to Bakersfield, CA from the Mississippi Delta so my dad could get a better paying teaching job. My dad had been a member of the White Citizens' Council, and they both hated MLK and the Civil Rights Movement with a passion. They soon extended that hostility towards JFK and the Democratic Party, and by the time Kennedy was assassinated, they had become Republicans and were devoted Goldwater volunteers. They demonized Kennedy so much, I temporarily thought this was a positive development, like Khrushchev dying, or something. That was a very brief reaction, though, as I immediately got caught up in the national grief and mourning, one of the first times I realized my family's whacked views were not universally held.

My mom later became constituent representative for Bill Thomas, chair of House Ways and Means. My dad became mayor. Racism is the basis for the "modern" Republican Party, no matter how many times they call themselves the "Party of Lincoln." (Gag.)

[OnlinePoker]

23. My second birthday.

Apparently, I never got cake that day even though I am a Canadian. His death was felt everywhere.