John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Page 2

Wow , you and I are the same age, Moons!

I was in Grade 6, and we were having an indoor recess, due to rain. Our teacher brought in a radio, and set it on a chair a the front of the class, so we could hear the news.

One of those moments in life you will never forget...

For the younger generation, their equivalent would be 9/11.

I had a teacher who was in some way related to Henry Cabot Lodge, she always brought that up, but she brought a television into class and the whole school came to a halt.
It's one of many events I will never forget.
The war, the riots, Bobby and Martin Luther, television was very different back then.
 

As young as I was, I remember being horrified by the riots.  The war was every night National News fare, so I was used to looking at it, but that kind of brutality in the streets just stunned me.

So many today either don't remember or didn't see it happen.
Just us old farts......

did you just said old farts?....LOL...you are not known for self insults....you must be tired...

Oh, Moons calls himself an Old Fart all the time.  If nothing else, he's honest :)

hmm...what does he calls us GSD? spring chickens? LOOOL

tastie..........:)

Sorta like chicken..

I was only four years old, but had started kindergarten and had just come in from school, and was sitting on the living room floor eating lunch while my mom ironed the laundry and my baby brothers napped, and she had our old black & white, circa 1950's television on so she could watch her 'soaps' as she worked.  When the news came that the President had been shot, my mom began to cry; as an Irish Catholic, Kennedy was more than just the President of the US to her...he was a kinsman, and the avenger of all the times her family members had been denied work or housing because "Irish need not apply". When his death was announced, she got quiet, and the house felt the same way it had when my grandfather had died--even the walls gave off waves of sadness.

Though I was too young to comprehend it then, looking back at the effect it had on the country, I think that was when the US lost a good deal of its optimism, when we had our hearts broken by the assassination of a President who made us believe we were all going to accomplish great things again.  I'd love to be able to see what happened in the parallel universe where Kennedy lived and completed his term...

hexe....if you ever decide to write a book, i will buy it....you have a way with words...

moons...