In Remembrance

Filed in National by on November 22, 2009

Today in 1963 one of the great presidents of the United States was struck down.

WH/HO Portrait

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  1. Bill Dunn says:
    November 22, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    I was just over four years old when he was assassinated, but I believe the principles set forth by him and his public policies, has had an enormous influence on who I am and what I believe.
    “Ask not what your Country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your Country.”

  2. MJ says:
    November 22, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    I had just gotten home from kindergarten class (I only went 1/2 day). My bubbe was home watching me as my parents both worked. I was sitting in front of our old Admiral b&w television watching the motorcade. I knew who JFK was as my parents were huge supporters. I remember seeing the commotion after the shots were fired and Jackie Kennedy trying to climb out of the back seat of the limo. My bubbe, who was watching with me, rushed me to my room, since I shouldn’t see such a thing. She knew what had happened.

    JFK’s death, along the Martin Luther King’s and Bobby Kennedy’s assassinations 5 years later, showed me that no matter what a madman with a gun could do, they could not extinguish a dream. Their dreams and hopes for an America where all men and women, regardless of race, religion, nationality, and yes, sexual orientation, are to be treated as equals, with the same rights and responsibilities, lives on in all of us here at DL. That is one thing we should never forget.

  3. kaveman says:
    November 22, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    JFK was killed for a reason none of you know about.

    And, he was killed by the very people meant to protect him.

  4. lizard says:
    November 22, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

  5. john Galt says:
    November 22, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    MJ – There was no live coverage of the motorcade. There were no network TV camera’s within miles of Dealy Plaza.

    The footage you are refering to is the Zapruder film which wasn’t broadcasted on television until 1975.

  6. A. price says:
    November 22, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    and you know kaveman? please tell us your conspiracy theory.

  7. pandora says:
    November 22, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    He’s got a million of them, a. price

  8. MJ says:
    November 22, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    J Galt – CBS had the coverage. I remember it very clearly. There are things in one’s life that you never forget, and this is one of them. If you’re going to call me a liar, then do it and begone.

  9. john Galt says:
    November 22, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    Kennedy was shot at 12:30 pm. CBS and other news agency’s broke into normal programming and went with live coveage at 1:40. Cronkite mostly read from AP news releases.

    http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=kennedyjf

  10. lizard says:
    November 22, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    memory is a funny thing

  11. nemski says:
    November 22, 2009 at 5:32 pm

    Wow, John Galt proving he can be a dick in any thread.

  12. MJ says:
    November 22, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    And I was living in Denver, which is one hour behind Dallas and 2 hours behind NYC. I got out of school at 10:00 AM each day and lived 4 blocks from my school. Are you telling me what I saw and heard? Were you there with me and my bubbe?

    I even have the Life Magazine from that week and copies of the Denver Post from that afternoon (it was an afternoon paper at the time).

  13. nemski says:
    November 22, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Ha, did MJ just make John Galt his bitch?

  14. liberalgeek says:
    November 22, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination#Recordings_of_the_assassination

    It appears that the motorcade was not broadcast live. But it is possible that MJ saw one of the films that captured the event (which would explain why MJ’s Bubbe knew what was happening) and one was broadcast la few days later.

  15. john Galt says:
    November 22, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    Thank you liberalgeek for researching the matter instead of calling me names.

    I’ll be waiting for nemski’s apology.

  16. nemski says:
    November 22, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    I got your apology right here!

  17. pandora says:
    November 22, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    I love nemski.

  18. Progressive Mom says:
    November 22, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    There were, I believe, discussions among the press on either Nov. 22 or 23 about Mrs. Kennedy climbing down the back of the limo. Even if there weren’t photos, just a verbal description of that would sear into memory — and the photos would later prove it.

    Hard to believe, but there was precious little “live” coverage of anything other than press conferences and rocket launches in those days. Even very famous footage — like Khrushev at the world’s fair and Kennedy at the Berlin wall — was on tape for later broadcast. The Kennedy funeral, covered live wall to wall by the three major networks, changed the media forever. Live pictures of a news event in progress became much more important to viewers.

  19. liberalgeek says:
    November 22, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    Yeah, the logistics of getting 8mm film on TV quickly was probably daunting even under the best of circumstances.

    And Nemski, that’s a mighty small apology you got there… 🙂

  20. Joanne Christian says:
    November 22, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    MJ–with all due respect–the press usually didn’t scrutinize the President’s travel itinerary, and be a presence back in the day. If I remember correctly Mrs. Kennedy wasn’t even going to go. It was more of an obligation/protocol visit to supporting Texas Democrats, and I’m sure a hat tip for LBJ. No doubt, it was with gritted teeth and locked jaw the Kennedy clan “mixed” w/ the LBJ crowd. But that’s what stiff upper lips, and dignified political play brings out.

    It’s the one American tragedy I really don’t remember…but I finally remembered to ask my mother, how come w/ everything I do remember, I can’t remember that? She said, it was because I was taking a nap!! And that she will always remember, because I would NEVER take a nap. The first “live” coverage I remember is Jack Ruby going after LHO in the police station/hallway or whatever, and the parents shouting at the TV……

  21. Rebecca says:
    November 22, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    I remember and it was awful. Jackie truly did pull the nation through it all. An amazing woman. And it was the first time we had seen live coverage of a major news event. Everyone stayed home and watched all weekend. All public events were cancelled. I had tickets to a Smothers Brothers concert at the Academy of Music that weekend and it was cancelled. Nobody would have gone. We all just hunkered down and mourned.

  22. nemski says:
    November 22, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    I keep on thinking, “Who’s John Galt?”

  23. Dagny Taggart says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    It took Ayn 12 years and almost 1000 pages before I found out who he was.

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