JFK 50 years ago
 

an awful day. i think this presidents assassination sticks with everyone so much because of it being caught on video.
lincoln, garfield, mckinley all assassinated, but we only read about those. it's not caught forever on a zapruder-type film.

when i went to arlington, there's a picture i remember seeing of jackie, fairly close up, listening to a churchman (bishop or cardinal, not sure). the pain in her eyes is so obvious and striking.
just crazy that one loony can have such a devastating impact. i think that's why people latch onto conspiracy theories, they don't think it's possible that it can be almost easy to do such a deed, and to change so much in a moment.

the picture:

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&sa...10&tx=30&ty=73

Last sat nite CBS had an hour show on that horrible day..good coverage.
Tonite NBC has has 2 hour show WHERE WERE YOU from 8 to 10.
Most of you weren't around that day..I remember at our office one of the secretarys got a phone call and announced 'Kennedy's been shot'...not much work done rest of day..glued to the tv all nite..


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...onspiracy?lite


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...ssination?lite

I was around..but..I was one day old:D

Happy one day late birthday:tro:

wasn't around yet.

http://news.msn.com/us/the-jfk-assas...of-a-president


i wonder if the idiot holding the sign in the fourth pic ever felt bad about his stance? i hope so.

You can't fix stupid:zz:


Remember it all too well..and all the aftermath..:(



Figured that..;)

Like you DJ, I remember it all too well. Walter Chronkite practically breaking down sobbing himself as he announced the president's death. LBJ getting sworn in with Jackie in attendance still in her blood stained clothes. Then later, the slow funeral procession with the President's casket on the gun carriage making its way to the Capitol Rotunda and the riderless horse led by the soldier in his dress uniform. And still later, John-Johns little salute to his Dad. Sad stuff, that stays with you forever.

Over the years can't count the times i've watched the above you describe..
Figured you and Ocala Mike and maybe couple others might remember..
and Dan Rather made his bones with on the spot reporting...

the horses name was black jack...funny how that stuff sticks in your head.


taps is always mournful, but i don't know that i've ever heard a more heart-wrenching rendition then the one for jfk.


iirc, arlington has two teams of horses, one set black, and one white, and they use them on alternate days. seems like they were on 'white horse' day, but the family or the white house had requested the black horses be used.

JFK 50 years ago
 

I was in my final semester at Queens College in NYC. I decided to cut my afternoon classes and head for the Big A to play some ponies. I actually heard the news of his death from Fred Cappossella, the track announcer. Jay Hovdey, in a recent DRF article, reported that the final TWO races were cancelled that day, but my recollection as one of the 24,000 in attendance (pre-OTB; people actually went to the track) is that racing was cancelled after about the 3rd or 4th race. Anyway, I headed home, and went to my part-time job at the Boys Club of Queens in Astoria that evening (I was the librarian, believe it or not). I usually didn't allow the tv set to be on except for special occasions or sports events, but that Friday night I sat glued to the tv set with all the kids, witnessing history. I remember it like yesterday (although my wife insists I can't remember yesterday, and she's absolutely right.)

On tv, on Vets day,Memorial day, movies, anywhere i hear taps i choke up.

I have that problem with names of many people i've know forever..:zz:

Do you remember the Cuban missle crisis?..I remember Kennedy on tv talking about the situation and saying 'we are taking these initial steps' and basically telling the Russians to GTFO of Cuba..a very good tv movie about that time in history was The Missiles of October (1974)..William Devane play JFK and Martin Sheen was Bobby...netflix has it...

Oddly enough, I don't recall being terribly alarmed by the Cuban thing in Oct., 1962. I think I was all wound up at that time with having to change my major at college because I was doing suck in organic chemistry. Nobody wanted to flunk out in those days, because you'd lose your draft deferment, so I switched to English Lit., which anybody can pass without "studying," I do recall seeing a lot of Knick and Ranger games at the Garden that winter, and playing a little pond ice hockey myself.

That would explain your extreme liberalism :p

i was a year and a half old, but my mom took me and flew to washington for the wake. She felt it very important for us to be there. My dad told her she was crazy. She did it anyway. Ironic part was that My dad was friends with Jack Kennedy who he called the greatest there ever was. He also said Bobby was a complete assahole. Kennedy was our congressman in the 8th district. Later Tip won the seat and held it 30 years.