November 22, 1963 - Now 43 Years Ago

[gabriel1]

For those interested, a VERY good book on that day is Jim Bishop's "The Day Kennedy Was Shot"

Another is William Manchesters "Death of a President"

And wh do you remind us? Leave the past in the past.

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Well given the fact that you are a young adult and not part of that period of time, you might not have the same feelings regarding those eventful 4 days in November, that forever changed this country and possibly the course of history had JFK lived more then just 1000 days..

As you did not experience the pain of those four days and the horror of a live murder on television of Lee Harvey Oswald, i think it is rather a shame you should want to push such events into a vaccum of non-existence and then just ignore them and hope they go away.

Also i have a minor or vested interest in the story of JFK. As a college student I was working at the Democratic National Convention for all four days of the convention, and shall never forget the evening of him winning the nomination nor his presence when he gave his acceptance speech. And what four days they were - the American political scene in front of one and the events in the hall. Finally, i had the chance to meet one of the greatest Americans of the 20th century - Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Two hours in the company of this remarkable woman as she demonstrated how the "art of politics" was to be played that evening - according to "her paint brush and brilliant memory."




eM.

Totally in agreement with you Croynan. I was 6 yrs old at the time but can still remember my Mom & her friend watching a soap opea and the bulletins started interrupting. I remember my Mom & her friend in unison crying "OH my God".

It was time from from which I feel we never recovered , then the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., then Bobby Kennedy. It was the times we lost our innocence forever and what we had will never ever be again.

 

[Croynan]

Today will end in a small number of hours depending upon where you happen to live.

Tomorrow is scheduled to come - hopefully it does.

But one has the feeling that so many things might be so different now, and for the better, had the events of 46 years ago not occurred, on this day.

Jerry Herman wrote a love song for a musical called "Mack and Mabel."

It is a beautiful song to hear sung, especially by Millicent Martin, of the U.K.

The Song: "Time Heals Everything" - i wish that were really true.

Time Heals Everything ​

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[Mabel]
Time heals everything
Tuesday
Thursday
Time heals everything
April
August
If I'm patient the break will mend
And one fine morning the hurt will end
So make the moments fly
Autumn
Winter
I'll forget you by
Next year
Some year
Tho' it's hell that I'm going through
Some Tuesday
Thursday
April
August
Autumn
Winter
Next year
Some year
Time heals everything
Time heals everything
But loving you.

So make the moments fly
Autumn
Winter
I'll forget you by
Next year
Some year
Though it's hell that I'm going through
Some Tuesday
Thursday
April August
Autumn winter
Next year
Some year
Time heals everything
Time heals everything
But loving you!​

eM.

 

[cityboy-stl]

This day was one of most traumatic of my young life. Every year I try to let this day go by without grieving all over again. But it still hurts like it just happened. I can still see and hear the teacher directing us from the school cafeteria to another room down the hall where a TV was on. I can hear Walter Cronkite. I still feel the disbelief. The entire world just stopped that day. Everything was on hold from the shock. It wasn't like 9/11. Everything just completely stopped dead. I can still see the TV where we just got home from church that Sunday morning and Lee Harvey Oswald being shot on live TV. I tried to go on today but I had to stop and cry again for awhile and wonder how different the world would be today if that day hadn't happened.

 

[gabriel1]

So apparently I am not the only one that feels the world might have been a little better, more innocent had this not happened. It is still my belief that had JFK not been assassinated, neither would have Dr. MLK or RFK.

 

[NedNickerson]

From a Discovery Channel film about the JFK assassination - a compilation of various films and photos taken that day.

 

[Sausy]

I was born that year.......it was a tragic loss for the nation,as a promising presidency and life was cut all too short.Whether his presidency woyuld have lived up to the promise or whether it was merely illusory,we had that period of dreaming and idealism for the possibilities of our nation and its grand future.

 

[tommyj]

A teacher one time told us the reason Jackie got out on the back trunk was to retrieve a piece of JFK's head, not to help the SS agent.

 

[gabriel1]

A teacher one time told us the reason Jackie got out on the back trunk was to retrieve a piece of JFK's head, not to help the SS agent.

That's what various looks at the Zapruder film have proven, because if you look at the film closely, the SS agent (CLINT HILL) pushes her back into the car.

 

[Riverrick]

I was 7 and home from school, sick. The day is etched in my memory.

I think it was different from 9/11 because it was over as soon as it started. With 9/11, we weren't sure what was next.