Nancy Reagan throws party weekend of JFK assasination and forbids any conversation regarding same...

He was despised by republicans. In Texas, in preparation for his visit, wanted posters accusing him of treason were hung up around Dallas. Nancy reacted the same way as others in the republican party did. They felt nothing. Some were certainly happy about it.

I still won't to this day.

Curious, since the Hunt brothers who created the ketchup were from California with no connection to Dallas or oilman H.L. Hunt of Texas and the tomato growing Hunt's sold their operation a long time ago. By the time of the Kennedy assassination the Wesson company owned the product name Hunt's.

I remember Mom and Dad discussing this question in the early 60's when I was a little kid. Somehow I took it that they were one and the same because Mom never bought Hunt's ketchup. She must have had another reason. Unfortunately, I can't ask her because she passed away in 2002. Regardless, thanks for setting me straight after all of these years! I hate it when I do that!

Heinz 57 is the ONLY ketchup.

the only connection I make to the ketchup is John Kerry. John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, the Heinz ketchup heiresst ...

I consider Hunt's ketchup to be a poor example of ketchup. I would eat it only if no other ketchup is available. Heinz 57 is simply the best tomato ketchup sold.

My sister came home crying on the day of the assassination. Some of the kids were saying, “Yay, Kennedy is dead.” My mother had a parent teacher conference that day, told the teacher she almost didn’t come and the teacher said, “Why? People die every day.”

California was a hot-bed of right wingers then. Not the California we know now.

pull of the side of the road I was crying so hard.

I wasn't even into politics then.. not until decades later. I was just really devasted that JFK the person and the POTUS was assassinated. It was shocking, of course.

the principal came in and said President Kennedy has been killed and the kids cheered "hurray, yah etc etc". The principal got after them and then said he was going outside to lower the flag, that was it.

I was 4. That was first encounter with evil people. I didn’t see it live (the cheering kids) but it hurt nonetheless. My parents voted for Nixon but came to love Kennedy and it was like a death in the family.

but were horrified by what happened. I remember just sitting there with those kids cheering around me, I was in shock. I would like to think that they were just too young to understand death but I understood it perfectly and we were all the same age.

In 1989, the 49ers played a few days after the Loma Prieta earthquake: their stadium was damaged so they had to borrow Stanford's. The NFL doesn't let little things like major earthquakes get in the way of their revenue stream. (The World Series, which was going on at the time, was postponed for about a month)

He said it took them years to recover from it

The pilot was filmed in November 1963. On the final day of production in Hawaii, the cast and crew learned of John F. Kennedy's assassination. There is a small, subtle reminder of this historical incident seen on the series. In the opening credits of the first season, as the Minnow pulls out of the harbor, the United States flag can be seen flying at half mast.

She got a pass from a lot of people when she was First Lady and after because she was a little old white lady. I say f--- that.

She was a sociopath -- her position on drugs was privileged unjustifiable callous indifference, her behavior in re: HIV/AIDS was an abomination. As an anecdote of the same, look up Rock Hudson's death and the Reagan's refusal to help him get treatment -- on the grounds that they could not do special favors for friends from Hollywood, just about the only incident in which they withheld special treatment for their friends/colleagues and made this excuse.

hit her young daughter in face with a hairbrush

Same name too.

in the year when it was the 50th anniversary of JFK's death, my brother-in-law sat in my living room and matter-of-factly stated that JFK's death meant nothing to him at that time because "I never liked the guy." My husband and I had to pick our jaws up off the floor.

we can also remember that 8 year nightmare.. Of course this one is so bad, it's hard to remember how evil the GOP has been forever in my memory, but evil they were are are.

Both my parents were die-hard Republicans.

When I came home from school and asked my mother--and her mother who was visiting us at the time--whether they'd heard the news and then told them that JFK had been assassinated, my mother said, "It's about time!". Her mother, my grandmother, was appalled.

I was the only person in the family glued to the TV that weekend. Everybody else acted like it was a normal weekend.

When Ronnie became president, my mother had a photo of him hung on our kitchen wall. I could hardly stand to be in the house by that time.

My brother has continued to be a die hard Republican. He supported the orange one. I no longer initiate any communication with him. Fortunately, it's easy since he lives in California and I live in North Carolina.

His children tell me that the reason he refuses to ever support anyone but Republicans is because of "taxes". It's all about the money with him and I believe it.

When I moved my father here (from CA) after my mom died I asked him if he would like to join me in a gift of money to the one aide in the nursing home where he lived (he had a post operative dementia and needed 24 hour care) who was always so nice to him--and his personal favorite--my brother declined. My brother never once--in almost 18 months my dad lived here before he died--came to visit him. Not once. And he traveled a lot for work. It wouldn't have been too difficult for him to stop over occasionally to see him. My brother once was making plans to come see me (years after our dad died) when he found out it would cost him an extra $900. to change his ticket and he told me "it wasn't worth it". I can't tell you how many times I flew at Christmas to visit him and brought one of our boys with me. I'm sure it cost me more than $900. over the years.

I can believe it. All about the money. Greedy.

to their ranch and there was a traffic tie-up. When they finally reached the reason for the delay - two black men pushing a disabled car - Nancy said to Ron, "Well, that figures."

Gave birth to RR kid while allegedly in bed w another woman. RR popular among the devoted religious voters.

Not good enough to keep from getting knocked up out of wedlock with Ronnie

John Wayne and James Stewart.

She was not she got around and trapped Ronny into marrying her getting pregnant on purpose. He still pined for Jane Wyman who dumped him because he was dull. I’ve read many similar accounts about her in many different movie books.

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He didn't follow the common rule, "Never send your soldier into battle without his armor."

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I think it was during an English class that the crime was announced. Due to overcrowding, the school had set up desks in the cafeteria, and it was hard to hear the teacher. None of us kids knew what had happened. Someone came in and said something to him. It was probably when JFK's death was announced. He seemed shaken and announced the shooting and death. Then he broke down in tears. We were dismissed and told to go to the fenced in yard. Seemed like we stayed there for a couple of hours, and some kids started acting out. Finally we were told to go home, so we all go on the local buses and went home.

We didn't have a TV at the time (we had just moved cross country the previous spring), but the local newspaper was full of the information, as well as the radio.

I was 11 at the time, and when I knew who JFK was, had heard the popular Vaughn Meader impersonations of JFK, but I couldn't quite wrap my brain around what had happened. It was abstract to me. But I knew the world had become a sadder and even more chaotic place. It's never seemed quite the same since then.

The end of Camelot.

at J.L. Hudson Co in the Detroit area. When it was announced that JFK was dead the store cleared out. There were no customers all afternoon. They closed the store at 5.