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Thank you, so much. I was around 10 yo

And I will never forget this day. Every November 22 , I remember this is the day President Kennedy was shot and killed. And Jackie’s pink suit and pillbox hat.

Thank you for filling me in on the background as I did not remember that,

Racism the deep deep poison at the heart of our nation

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Aye, a remember when for me too. I had just turned 13 and in grade 7. I was in school and the silence in the hallways upon leaving the building that day was deafening.

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Deep deep sadness. For the telling of this story. Breathtaking and heartbreaking. And remembering the day, where we were and how it felt. Bewildered. And today, here we are. Bewildered, still.

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The context of the politics behind the trip gave me pause to wonder whether LHO’s actions may have been racially motivated, or perhaps he was hired by someone who was.

That was the saddest day and long weekend of my young life, and the loss is as painful to relive today as it was to live through it in real time 61 years ago.

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5 hrs ago·edited 5 hrs ago

Thankyou, Heather, for telling us this. I am reminded that I had seen President Kennedy only a month before, October, when he addressed students and faculty outdoors in the stands at our football field at the University of Maine. To think that he would be murdered in Dallas the next month was shocking to me at the age of 19. I'm sure that others who had also seen him at our campus that October day felt the same way.

I had been too young to vote in1960. If I had been old enough then, I might have voted for Nixon because my parents were staunch Republicans and had voted for him. Dad worked at a shipyard where U.S. submarines were built. He and many of the workers felt that if a Democrat would be elected, they would lose their jobs. Besides that, Kennedy was a catholic. By the time Kennedy was assassinated, I had learned a lot and changed my mind about what my parent had told me.

Then when the government covered up the details, the Warren Commission, I could not understand how they could do that, since there was too much evidence that showed Lee Harvey Oswald probably didn't kill the president, or that at least there had been others involved.

A couple of day ago, I watched the great film "Lawrence of Arabia" that came out in 1962. In the film actor Peter O'Toole, who played the role of Lawrence spoke a line we all should remember: "There may be honor among thieves, but not among politicians." Lawrence was speaking of the British and French that were cutting a deal with the Arabs to create new states in the Middle East near the end of WWI.

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I was 9 when JFK was assassinated. That civil rights history and the martyr he became shaped my early political awakening. How the country has changed, some for the better and some for the worse. https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/60-years-ago-today-jfk-was-assassinated

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