RIP JFK, 45 years ago today in Dallas....

[emad]

45 years after tragedy, John F. Kennedy legacy thrives

It was 45 years ago today that an assassin’s bullet ripped a hole in America’s heart, even that part of America that hadn’t supported the candidacy of our 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

By the time he was shot down on this date in 1963, JFK had charmed the socks off many critics with irrepressible warmth and self-effacing humor.

When asked to describe how he became a hero as the commander of PT-109 in the South Pacific, he replied, “It was involuntary; they sank my boat.”

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1134048


Gone but never forgotten.

I light a candle in your memory Jack ever confident that the truth of what happened that day on 22 November 1963 will have to out.

[chelsea0011]

1. Even to this day I have vivid memories of where I was when I heard the news.

Odd that those memories never faded. I was, after all, only in the 5th grade.

[alsame]

5. I was in 1st grade and I vividly remember the day - being sent

home from school and finding my mother in front of TV, crying her eyes out.

[Auggie]

2. We can't begin to imagine what the last 45 years might have been like.

Damn it all.

[saltpoint]

3. We lost a great deal more than a good president that day.

“Thinking of him, we all see so vividly what we admire in a human life, and what are the great causes we care about. The impact of his example will help and inspire men and women for time yet to come.”

--Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, in his eulogy for John F. Kennedy

[yellowdogintexas]

4. Thank you for posting this. nt

[Trajan]

6. For those who missed it .....

Here is underpant's thread for today: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4514341

In my thoughts, I am struck by two interrelated facts:

1) The profound sadness of good people everywhere over the loss of such a great man

2) The glee of the right wing as three BRIGHT stars in the Liberal universe are cut down, slaughtered, by those who have a like mind as their own ....

The calls we heard at the Palin rallies to 'KILL HIM' are the same basic crass impulses that have driven their ilk to psychotic rage since forever ...

Beware .....

[Jackpine Radical]

7. I remember that day so well. I was a 19 year-old sophomore at UW, had gotten to

an English class some minutes early, and another student came into the room, crying. She had been listening to a transistor radio as she walked to school, and had gotten the first report that Kennedy had been shot and was in critical condition. We early-arrivers were all listening to her radio when the instructor arrived. He hadn't heard. We all just sat there, listening to the transister radio. Then I went to my next class--it was Danish--and that instructor just dismissed us and sent us home. Looking back on it, I'm struck by how we just kept going to our classes, like trained sheep, while one of the largest calamities of the century was unfolding.

[Ilsa]

8. I was 5. What day of the week was it?

I know it was during the week (obviously from these posts), but my dad had told me he was in his office. I remember our family travelling to Houston to see family for some special event at their church. I barely remember, but there are images of the funeral in black and white from the tv coverage.

[TahitiNut]

9. Friday

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