On this fateful day, JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. I know that for some of the older users out there, that JFK's assassination was pretty much equivalent to 9/11. As it was an event that truly changed the face of this Nation, forever.

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I was 2 Years Old when it happened.

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I was in gym class, 9th grade, at Englewood. Someone noticed that the flag at the front of the school had been lowered to half-mast.

Once we got to our next class (I think it was Algebra I) we were informed that the President was dead.

After that it was a blur. I can't even recall if the rest of the school day was cancelled. I assume it was.

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The sun's not yellow, it's chicken.

Only 2 replies and 30+ views? I guess that 100 years from now, Kennedy's legacy will remain in the toilet.

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Only 2 replies and 30+ views? I guess that 100 years from now, Kennedy's legacy will remain in the toilet.

 

Calm down, it's Friday night. Anyone watching TV, listening to the radio are surfing the web knows the significance of today's date. Failing to respond to today's most obvious thread topic on any message board has nothing to do with JFK's legacy.

 

I was almost 5 years old when Kennedy was killed. I should have been in kindergarten, but my right leg was in a full length cast, my leg broken when it got caught in the spokes of the bicycle upon which handlebars I was riding as a teenager from across the street pedaled. I vaguely recall my mom crying, my sister and dad coming home early from school and work, respectively.

 

I'm sure I watched the news coverage, but my earliest memory of watching anything on television was the black and white broadcast of JFK's funeral procession. This included John John's famous salute, which really brought it into focus to me at that early age. My mom told me who he was, and I felt so sad for that boy, who no longer had a father.

 

Take about 14 minutes out of your day, this is worth it:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmiOEk59n8

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If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley


 

Only 2 replies and 30+ views? I guess that 100 years from now, Kennedy's legacy will remain in the toilet.

A large majority of people on this board were years, if not decades away from being born at the time of JFK's murder. It's a sad thing to have happened, but it's not at the forefront of most of their minds.



To most people, history begins the day they were born...sad but true.

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

I was in gym class, 9th grade, at Englewood. Someone noticed that the flag at the front of the school had been lowered to half-mast.

 

 

After the Kennedy brothers and Dr. King, flags flying at half-mast always make me so sad.

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If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley


 

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A large majority of people on this board were years, if not decades away from being born at the time of JFK's murder. It's a sad thing to have happened, but it's not at the forefront of most of their minds.



To most people, history begins the day they were born...sad but true.

 

Thank God I only have to remember 29 years of history.  

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Thank God I only have to remember 29 years of history.

Just because you can't remember them all doesn't mean there weren't more than 29! :thumbsup:

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

On this fateful day, JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. I know that for some of the older users out there, that JFK's assassination was pretty much equivalent to 9/11. As it was an event that truly changed the face of this Nation, forever.

I was a few months old. Don't remember it at all. I wonder what our country would be like if such a violent act had not taken away so many hearts. I think the assassination led to changes for the worse in our land. The soul became less obvious and common decency fleeting. Things beyond our age were suddenly thrust upon us too soon. We never escaped the loss of innocence, conscience, and unity.

 

Several years ago, I kept seeing a faint satellite in the night sky super slowly moving through the constellation Leo. It was moving at a pace like none other I had ever seen. Really, really slow.

 

 I researched it and discovered it was Atlas Centaur 2 (694, 1963-047-A). It was the first liquid hydrogen rocket to reach orbit. 

 

As grave as the day President Kennedy was shot and killed was, the rocket body of Atlas Centaur 2 was drifting across the stars that first night I saw it because somebody determined that our nation had to keep moving. I wonder what was going through the heart and mind of whoever pushed the launch button. Such a crisp bright thing to be launched during our darkest days as a nation. Fitting for it to remain unseen in the sky except as a glint of light in darkness. Atlas Centaur 2 was launched just five days after President Kennedy's death.

 

It's still up there.

 

I like to think of it as a hidden gem in the sky specifically there for us and nobody else. It's something that probably 99% of the world's population will never, ever know about in their entire lifetime. 

 

Try to find it one night, if you can. Maybe we could use it as a link between generations.

 

http://www.heavens-above.com/SatInfo.asp...t=1&tz=EST

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First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi

 

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