The Kennedy Assassination: 50 Years Later

[Ms Domainer]

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For many of you -- maybe even most of you -- the Kennedy assassination is just history, but for me, it was real and raw. I wrote about it on my blog:

Anyone who was alive and at an age of awareness 50 years ago today remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing on that terrible day.

These memories are etched deeply in our minds and our hearts, after all these years, still breaking.

As I watch the grainy TV footage, I am reminded of what we lost that day – much more than our beloved President.

But we couldn’t know that then.

I was 13, an especially vulnerable age. Too old to be unaware, too young to process this tragedy on a sophisticated level. In many ways, my grief is still stuck at this level, the child grasping for an explanation – anything to make everything better. But there were no and are no adequate words to smooth over the crushing grief that blanketed me – and most of us – that day.

The rest is here.

Perhaps some of you have your own assassination memories.

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[Kenny]

I remember it well. As a 9yo I didnt really understand what was going on at first, but the crushing sorrow of the people around me was overwhelming.
As the days went on, I started to grasp the magnitude of the situation through the conversations of the elders, my family and their friends.
The biggest question in my family was "why?".

We still dont know.
We may never know.

RIP J.F.K.

Peace,
Cy

 

[treker]

It ain't the KGB.
Most probably it was Lyndon Johnson