Today Is The 48th anniversary Of The Tragic assassination Of US President Kennedy.
Bangalore
Today Is The 48th Anniversary Of The Tragic Assassination Of US President Kennedy
by Bangalore 28 Replies latest jw friends
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Thanks for posting this, really a turning Event in many of our lives. I remember being in Wood Shop at School when the News came in, our Teacher had us all put our heads down in a moment of prayer. We were at a complete loss over the magnitude of this tragedy.
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Bangalore
Yes it was quite a tragedy. RIP JFK. Also his brother Robert was shot just a few years later. Very sad.
Bangalore
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JRK
It was a sad day indeed. I remember exactly when I heard the news. I was on the playground of my elementary school as a 2nd grader. I remember all of us crying.
JK
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james_woods
They say everybody over about 6 at the time can remember exactly what they were doing.
I was in 9th grade Latin class when the principle made the announcement.
Later, at the Kingdom Hall, everybody was convinced that it meant the Great Tribulation had started. They gave that up about a week later...
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Band on the Run
I was in sixth grade. The boys were in shop (something that would have nice for girls to learn) and we were reading some text. The teacher across the hall, ran in, screaming at the top of her lungs, that the President was shot in Dallas. We cleaned the room so we could go up as soon as the boys returned. I could not cry. I felt absolutely horrid inside. Ruby shooting Oswald made it sounds as though Texas was still a lawless country, not a state.
It was similar to being in NY on 9/11 and after. YOu could not escape it. If you passed someone on the street, they were stricken, too. And then the myth of Camelot emerged. Frankly, RFK's assasination hit me much harder. Maybe I was just older. I stood in line for hours to walk past RFK's coffin at St. Patrick's.
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JRK
BotR,
Texas is still a lawless country.
JK
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james_woods
Texas is still a lawless country.
That is why we all have guns.
BTW - did you know that the Dallas Cowboys have never received a fair football call since the shooting of Kennedy in Dallas?
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Band on the Run
Maybe it was the elementary school crowd but we despised Texas. Blamed Texas. I think something else was happening. When John Lennon was murdered in NY, I never thought that the essence of NY caused. Celebrities live here so it happened. I would not blame LA or London. I realize that being an Easterner is very important to me. I grew up in an original thirteen state.
We also hated Johnson. He seemed to benefit. Now I don't believe it at all. Johnson implemented so many programs that Kennedy could never get through Congress.
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JRK
The Bush's fecklessness trumped LBJ's gains.
JK