Tag Archives: JFK assassination
Friday the 22nd, then and now
I’m sure this isn’t an original thought, but I’ll toss it out there anyway. Fifty years ago Friday, the president of the United States was shot to death in front of a school book warehouse in Dallas. That event, Nov. 22, 1963, was on a Friday as well. That gives the half-century commemoration a touch […]
American Experience broadcast lives on
As we continue to look back at one of the 20th century’s darkest episodes, I feel compelled to remind folks that an outstanding public television broadcast chronicling the life and death of, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States is online and available for viewing whenever you want to see it. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/jfk/player/ […]
JFK soon will dominate our recollections
I remember what I was doing 50 years ago the morning of Nov. 22, 1963. I was lying on my parents’ couch. I had stayed home from school that day, as I was suffering from a cold. The TV was broadcasting its usual daytime fare when suddenly a news bulletin flashed on the screen. Shots […]
A Public View 