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[Kid Berwyn]

1. The nation has never been the same.

We’ve gone from a place where anything was possible to one where money trumps peace.

[ancianita]

22. Today Joe's heading straight into Cawthorn country with all its black flags.

[Mr. Steve]

20. Agreed

Sadly, yes.

[Walleye]

2. The decade of assassinations began.These days I bet the current GOP would be celebrating this murde

Sorry if that is harsh but that’s how I see it. After Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Think they wouldn’t celebrate if one of our current leaders was killed?

[doc03]

5. Believe me Republicans did celebrate the JFK murder, people in government

wouldn't do it in public but I heard many comments from our Republican neighbors.
They were the MAGAts of the time but they didn't have elected officials openly supporting them.

[Walleye]

6. So did I. But at least they kept the quiet part quiet in those days

I remember Kennedy was the butt of a lot of jokes. All that stopped after the four day national funeral and muffled drums, the widow, the fatherless children. But I do think we are much more crass now

[doc03]

8. My mother told how she learned that FDR died. She was walking by a neighbors house

and this women working in the yard asked her if she had heard that that SOB finally died.

[Walleye]

9. Wow. Yes I know FDR was hated by some. Never thought about them rejoicing at his death

[Diamond_Dog]

10. On the 50th anniversary of the shooting

We were here at my house, it was near Thanksgiving. My late brother-in-law sat in my living room and had the nerve to say out loud that JFK’s death didn’t bother him in the least because “I never liked the guy.” I was so shocked I didn’t know what to say. My sister sat there and said nothing. I finally worked up the sense to say, “C’mon Dave, if nothing else, he was our President and didn’t deserve to get murdered in the street in cold blood.” But Dave stuck to his guns that it was not that big a deal to him. Just mind boggling. Well I hope he liked LBJ who took Kennedy’s place. (I’m sure he did not)

[mnhtnbb]

14. My mother was happy.

I grew up in a Republican household.

We heard the news at school over the speaker system in each classroom. Walked home in a daze. My mother's mother was visiting us from California. She and my mom were having tea in the kitchen. I walked in and asked them if they'd heard what happened. No, they hadn't. I told them, "President Kennedy has been assassinated." My mother responded, "It's about time." My grandmother gasped and said nothing.

It was at that point--I was 12--that I knew I never wanted to grow up to be like my mother. I was the only person in the house glued to the TV, watching everything, that weekend. The rest of my family--including my now Trump loving brother--had zero interest in what had happened.

[electric_blue68]

27. That must have been awful!

[Polybius]

36. The Q people actually like JFK

They think he was murdered by the insiders.

[doc03]

4. How time flies. I was in 6th period Biology class when it was announced over the

intercom he had been shot then in 7th period Geometry class it was announced he had died.
I remember everyone being glued to the TV the entire Thanksgiving weekend. I saw Jack Ruby
shoot Oswald on live TV. It is no way like today but Republicans really hated JFK. JFK today would be
far too conservative for the majority of Democrats.

[Walleye]

7. Same here I remember it very well. I was between classes

Junior high school, at the locker somebody said Kennedy had been shot, I thought they were joking around, soon found out otherwise. There had been a lot of political comedy around Kennedy that was stopped immediately. Actually today it’s just making me nostalgic for my family and all the people who loved me who are gone now

[Diamond_Dog]

11. Yep so true.

[SharonAnn]

12. I mark that as the end of my childhood. From a sheltered life, believing the the best about America,

To facing the unimaginable that something like that could happen here.

[Croney]

13. I remember.

58 years ago, I was parked in front of Diebert, Bancroft & Ross in New Orleans, waiting to pick up my new husband from work, when the news came on the radio. We had just sent them a wedding invitation five months earlier (as was the custom back then) and gotten a congratulatory reply (which I still have). It was surreal.

[doc03]

16. The MAGA crowd has always been there but

Trump has made it socially acceptable to come out of the closet in the Republican party.

[marybourg]

17. Must have been a local custom.

Never heard of that in N.Y.

[Croney]

33. No it was common then and Google says it still is.

I searched "sending wedding invitation to the President" and there are lots of links. Looks like The White House still sends preprinted cards from the President and First Lady.

I'll bet there aren't many from 1963 that are still around though.

[marybourg]

34. I got married in '62, as did most of my friends

and acquaintances . Never heard of anyone doing that. I guess just another way N.Y. is different. But I never even read about it, and I’m a prolific reader. I guess it’s never too late to make new discoveries in the realm of human behavior.

[Deminpenn]

39. The Kennedy WH also sent out thank you notes to all those

Americans who sent in cards expressing sympathy and condolences on the loss of their unborn son.

[Calista241]

15. So does anyone think we'll figure out who was behind the JFK murder?

Cause there's no way I believe it was Oswald just by himself on a whim.

[lastlib]

24. Read Colin McLaren's book, "The Smoking Gun".

It convinced me that a Secret Service guy accidentally fired the fatal shot.

[PhylliPretzel]

32. It was the Mafia

Read Ultimate Sacrifice and Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann.
Mafia members confirmed it while in prison. They were pissed that as Attorney General RFK was coming after them after years of being ignored to do their nefarious "business."

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. I was in class sophmore year.

That was such a bad time. His wasn't the only assassination. They even tried to kill the pope.

There were a lot of right wingers around then, too. THE John Birch Society. The KKK. Everyone was after the commies. Feelings were running really hot.

[Historic NY]

21. Things have go to hell since....

[Harker]

23. I was four, watching Bozo on WGN Chicago.

When I told my mom, she said, "no, no, Harker, it was President Lincoln that was shot!"

Feels like yesterday, sometimes.

[barbtries]

25. Walter Cronkite announcing the news.

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[lastlib]

26. In Memoriam, JFK

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Requiescat In Pace, sir.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[electric_blue68]

28. Amen. So horrific! 😔

[FoxNewsSucks]

29. Seems like politics have only gotten worse.

The attitude, divide, all just as bad and now it's far more out in the open.

With political crackpots actually in the House and Senate leading it.

Maybe it was my subconscious, since I hadn't been thinking about JFK or this anniversary. But a couple weeks ago I had a long stretch on a trip so I put the 11-22-63 miniseries on my tablet so I could watch the whole thing in one sitting.

[Tommymac]

30. Godspeed President Kennedy.

[Marcuse]

31. My entire elementary school watched Walter Cronkite in the auditorium.

Teachers were crying.

That weekend I and my best friend re-enacted Ruby shooting Oswald, rotating the roles and death throes.

[maxsolomon]

35. I was 7 weeks old.

In the hospital recovering from hernia surgery. Or so they tell me; I don't remember it well.

[question everything]

37. I always shudder remembering the riderless horse and the drum beat

during the funeral

[Rhiannon12866]

38. And I still remember that day vividly. I was in elementary school.

My "reading group" was allowed to go to the school library on our own with the warning to walk in line, no running or talking in the hall. Turns out that "Coach," the gym teacher, had a free period and had turned on his radio - and heard that the president had been shot! He immediately headed for the nearest classroom, sixth grade teacher, told him - and that teacher, in turn, rushed to the school library and told the librarian - and that's when we heard!

So we all took right off, we knew this was serious, forgot all about not talking or running, ran all the way back to our classroom to tell our teacher - who, in turn, ran out to find out more. I don't remember hearing a lot more then, no TV in classrooms in those days (except when there was a space mission), but we were immediately sent home, remember sitting in the school gym, everybody was pretty scared, waiting for the school buses to arrive.

When we got home (my brother went to the same elementary school), my mother already knew, she'd been told by our closest neighbor who loved President Kennedy and was in hysterics. And my mother was pretty distraught and I knew she'd voted for Nixon. That's the way things were in those days, he was everybody's president.

And I remember that there was no school, this was a national tragedy, and the TV at my house was on all of the time. I remember seeing Lee Harvey Oswald getting shot on live TV and I went into the kitchen to tell my mother - who hung onto the counter and said she couldn't take any more.

We lost so much that day and are still learning exactly how much. The loss of both President Kennedy - and later his brother (my senator) who stood a good chance of being elected president - has changed the course of this country's history forever.

[Deminpenn]

40. Also in elementary school

It was almost the end of the school day on the east coast. Can't recall if we were dismissed early, but remember it was a warm day, walking home from the bus stop and Mom meeting me at the front door. The TV was on and that's what we watched all day. Back then, the networks all went off from midnight until 6AM or so. My dad was at work, but I don't recall his reaction at all. I still have the magazines and newspapers my mom saved about the assassination and memorializing JFK.

[Rhiannon12866]

41. Sounds like we had much the same experience

I also don't remember my Dad's reaction, but I'm sure he had one. I can picture him just lowering his head and shaking it, that's how he'd react to bad news when there were just no words. And I can remember than my (maternal) grandmother had that iconic portrait of President Kennedy on the wall in her living room. I wish I knew what happened to that.

[Deminpenn]

42. Back then, the typical family situation

was the father working full time to support his family and the mother staying home. My dad was at work and didn't get home until around 5, but my parents read the newspapers, watched the news on TV and current events were always a topic of conversation especially when my grandparents came over after church for the big Sunday meal. (Pennsylvania had "blue laws" on the books then so nothing was open on Sundays.) My dad was stoic about things and worked a lot of hours. I guess I'm not surprised I don't remember his reaction.

[electric_blue68]

43. I remember...

besides being 10 y/o in '63...
.
When RFK was our Senator in '68 he was going to march in the NYC Greek Independence Day Parade which is always held in April.

But as you know April can often still be pretty cold esp back then. So I decided not to go see him, thinking - 'I'll see him when he comes to NYC to campaign for the NYS Primary...'

😑😑😔😔😔


Oh, yeah, like we were the "Alternative Earth" that got split off from Earth Prime where JFK, MLK & RFK had all lived.
(I read a lot of SF 🙂 )