JFK prayer card.

[Larissa]

29. The memory

Thank you, Drunken Irishman, for sharing this poignant keepsake of John F. Kennedy. It, of course, brought back several, some stinging, memories of that day, and the period afterwards. I was at school when it was announced that President Kennedy had been shot. My sister and I held hands and ran all the way home. In that trip home we saw grown adults of every stripe crying openly in the street. Over the years I always believed that that would be the first and last time I'd ever see that happen.

The other observation, which I discovered more recently, was that JFK's White House staffers warned him about going to Dallas. When JFK's Air Force One landed at Love Field in Dallas, a seemingly supportive crowd awaited him and the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Among them was this young man, at the link below, hoisting high the Confederate stars and bars. A definition of an omen is a phenomenon that foretells the future.

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184596/