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Big contrast between "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" and "Let's put a man on the moon by the end of the decade" vs. "You didn't build that!" or "Those manufacturing jobs aren't coming back," or "1% economic growth is the new norm, get used to it," that's for sure. And what Democrat other than he ever called for a tax cut? Other aspects of his presidency can be debated.This message has been edited. Last edited by: egregore, | |||
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I remember the day well. And his sons salute during the funeral. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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To the day as well as the date. I wonder how many times that has occurred in the last 56 years? | |||
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Wonder if the person or people who perpetrated this could see how the world turned out if they would have kept their bullets at home. On the serious note I think this event really set us back and helped lead to a wrong path in a number of ways. On another note, it did give one of the greatest lines in movie history (46 second mark) _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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I remember exactly where I was at the time......my interview in Atlanta Ga. Emory Uni. was stopped to give the news that JFK had been shot. Nobody was upset, and the interview continued on. | |||
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I was in my third grade classroom at Edward A. White elementary school on Ft. Benning. I remember the principal coming on the intercom and calling all the teachers to the office immediately. All of us students just sat there wondering what was going on... | |||
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I'll never forget the day and where I was. I was in my sophomore biology class when someone came into the room and whispered in the teachers ear. You could see on his face that something very serious occurred. Without a word, he turned a TV on in the front of the room and there was Walter Cronkite saying that the president had been shot. You could've heard a pin drop. That moment is indelibly etched into my memory. Falling on a Friday, the TV at home was on continually the whole weekend. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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His reputation was greatly enhanced by his death. The entire family in fact. I remember days of Walter Cronkite on black & white TV, the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald (the first murder on live TV), and then the funeral. All that made LBJ almost seem like a great leader for a short time. A different time for sure. I was in 5th grade, lined up waiting on the school bus to go home, when the principal came on the PA and said he had been shot in Texas. Not much more information for a few hours. A memorable event, much like 9/11. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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I was 4 years old at the time. I remember watching the funeral on a small B&W TV. I remember being mad because the TV coverage interrupted Captain Kangaroo. When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. Luke 11:21 "Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -- George W. Bush | |||
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I was in my first year of med school and was going down the steps, leaving anatomy class for lunch. We heard he had been shot in the head, so that afternoon disecting the human brain was not much fun. | |||
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I was in 4th grade at the time. Some of the teachers were crying, and we all went home. I think JFK and Trump are very similar. They both care greatly about the country and all of it's people, rich or poor. Both are and were withdrawing from foreign wars. And both are greatly opposed by our own countrymen who would pay for assassination so they could have power and leach off of us taxpayers. I worry about Trump a lot, but feel he is much wiser than JFK was at the time. JFK was too trusting, did not really understand the depths of depravity that exist in many souls. -c1steve | |||
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I was a sophomore in gym class when we heard. | |||
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It was my senior year in high school and they announced it on the loudspeaker during lunch. Yep, I know exactly where I was that day and I was watching a live report in Dallas a couple days later and saw Ruby shoot Oswald on live TV as it happened. Thanks to the Secret Service, no president has been successfully assassinated since. I don’t care who is president, I never want to see that again. --------------- Gary Will Fly for Food... and more Ammo Mosquito Lubrication Video If Guns Cause Crime, Mine Are Defective.... Ted Nugent | |||
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I remember the day very well. I was on my first year teaching and was at Berryhill School on the west side of Tulsa. I had just stepped out of my classroom and superintendent saw me and told me. I will forever remember that moment. Also remember watching tv live whlen Oswald got shot. "If you think everything's going to be alright, you don't understand the problem!"- Gutpile Charlie "A man's got to know his limitations" - Harry Callahan | |||
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Yeah, the Dem Party used to be the party of JFK. No longer, he is a far distant memory of many in that party. Nowadays, the Dems are the party of Castro. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Camelot ended that day. I was in 6th grade math class when the PA notified us of the shooting. Everyone was crying. Those were truly 4 or 5 days of hell while we were glued to the TV watching everything associated with JFK’s death. I have read that each of us will have about 5 or so defining days in our lives that we will never forget. For me: 1 JFK murder - Math Class 2 9/11 - Driving to work in Lewistown Montana 3 Challenger disaster - Working at the bank in Lewistown Montana 4 Donald Trump election / The defeat of evil - Waking up in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 5 Teton Damn failure in Idaho - we lived in Idaho Falls at the time. We were painting our house 6 ? I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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6 Armstrong taking his first step on the moon. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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I was barely 5 when JFK was shot. Like Bigboreshooter, my strongest memory is of being upset because the cartoons were preempted by the coverage. I didn't understand the real impact of it until much later. | |||
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I also remember people that afternoon, college age people, laughing and joking about it. I remember thinking, these idiots don't get what's happening. Because they only see the president and his family on TV, they can't comprehend these are real people. They think of them as no more than cartoon characters. It compounded my shock. | |||
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