I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned - 46 years ago

[ph4ever]

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) in Dealey Plaza.

[flipflopgirl]

[mommar]

Thought of it today..........haven't heard or seen much on t.v..........oh could be cause there's football on
I bet a lot of people on here aren't old enough to remember that. day.

[springparrot]

They mentioned in during the Cowboy game....I had to look at the date.......

[lati2d]

Yep - I just looked at the calendar and saw it was Nov.22 and I have heard no mention of this awful date in history. I know I'll never forget getting off the school bus as a 13 year old and my mother telling me the news from Dallas. Hard to believe it will be 50 years in another 4 years.

[dnw]

I thought about it today.

[VanillaGrl]

They mentioned in during the Cowboy game....I had to look at the date.......

Here too

[big john]

I was sitting in Sister Thomasanne's 2nd grade class at St. Margaret Mary's School
when it was announced. I'll never forget it. All the nuns were crying. Sad day.

[Grams]

Gosh it doesn't seem that long ago does it??? Sad day for sure...

[East Texas Parrothead]

The world stood still for me that day.

I was in the 7th grade ... Mrs. Beene's science class. She was called out of class. Came back in crying. She told us and everyone sat there in silence. We got out of school early and were out until after the funeral.

[ragtopW]

I was at Mom and Dad's yesterday we spoke on this

I was reliving my trip to Dallas this year..

[Snowparrot]

Of course, I knew. It's my youngest daughter's 26th birthday today, and she was born 20 years after that fateful day.
I was in final year high school (grade 13) and I remember it so well!

[Wino you know]

I was going to post something about this earlier this morning, but figured it would fall on deaf ears, so I didn't bother. But I'm glad YOU started this post, Connie. Thank you.

Yes, 46 years-what's even more amazing (or harder to grasp-depending on your perspective) for those of us old enough to remember, is that President Kennedy has now been dead the same number of years he was alive. (Or, rather, he will be in 5 months and 24 days). Still, 46 is an awfully young age to die.
Oh, what might have been, had he lived.

[rich_big]

I was not born yet, but I know that he was a very significant person to our country and our history. I have heard throughout my life from people of all different walks of life what a tragic day that was.

[SchoolGirlHeart]

I was 3 1/2. It's my earliest memory....

[gingerbreadman]

Yes, 46 years-what's even more amazing (or harder to grasp-depending on your perspective) for those of us old enough to remember, is that President Kennedy has now been dead the same number of years he was alive. (Or, rather, he will be in 5 months and 24 days). Still, 46 is an awfully young age to die.
Oh, what might have been, had he lived.

Math sux!

Sad for that day, and not quite old enough to understand at the time...

So sorry, at least CNN didn't bum me out today...

[citcat]

The first disaster in my young life. So awful.

[ejr]

The world stood still for me that day.

I was in the 7th grade ... Mrs. Beene's science class. She was called out of class. Came back in crying. She told us and everyone sat there in silence. We got out of school early and were out until after the funeral.

6th grade for me--we were home for lunch when we heard he had been shot, and then, when we were back at school, the custodian came around and poked into each classroom and gave us the thumbs down signal.

I have a close friend who is Japanese-she, her sister and her mom landed in New York City that day (they were moving to CHicago-their father was already here) and spent the weekend in a New York hotel, not speaking English and wondering why the only thing on tv was a funeral.

[SuperTrooper]

I was just shy of 5 years old and I still remember a lot of the funeral procession on TV. I was particularly struck by the cavalry boots hanging upside down in the stirrups of the horse led behind the casket.

My cousin Andre was born later that day. People have often been puzzled by the boy with the pure French-Canadian heritage who has the middle name of Fitzgerald.

[Bicycle Bill]

46 years ago.....
The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) in Dealey Plaza.

Could it be that since it was 46 years ago, maybe we've finally reached the point where we can put it behind us and move on? I mean, this gets mentioned EVERY FRAKKIN' YEAR!!!

I was born in 1954, less than ten years after the end of WWII. As I was growing up I don't remember, for example, a huge rememberance every year of the D-Day Invasion, or of Pearl Harbor, or of VE or VJ Day....and these events are arguably as significant as the assassination of JFK. Even today, the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima is not so much remembered and memorialized as it is used as a rallying point by those who, looking back through 50-plus years of changing attitudes, try to take America to task for devising and using such a weapon.
(aside — what were supposed to do; drop leaflets asking them to give up?)

At some point in time we finally let history stay history. We don't necessarily remember the Alamo any more (except maybe in Texas ), or the Maine, or even Pearl Harbor. Even Armistice Day (November 11th), originally designated to commemorate the end of WWI, has been changed to Veterans Day. Maybe it's time to do the same thing with Kennedy and let him, like Abraham Lincoln, "belong to the ages".
(Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, at the bedside of Lincoln, is reported to have said "Now he belongs to the ages" when the doctor present declared Lincoln to be dead)

-"BB"-