JFK Remembered 60Years Later

[Maxmars]

Being young is no excuse!  You are supposed to know everything.  

I think I read that somewhere... 

I was young enough to remember all manner of sadness and crying at my house... I knew what had happened, kind of... everyone was surprised that somebody died, and they all must have really really liked him.  Even though I know he had never came over to my house... whoever he was.

[FlyingClayDisk]

Being young is no excuse!  You are supposed to know everything.  

I think I read that somewhere... 

I was young enough to remember all manner of sadness and crying at my house... I knew what had happened, kind of... everyone was surprised that somebody died, and they all must have really really liked him.  Even though I know he had never came over to my house... whoever he was.

According to my parents, I 'knew everything' when I was 16.  I've regressed since then. 

[Maxmars]

According to my parents, I 'knew everything' when I was 16.  I've regressed since then. 

You and me both, my friend.

I'm in more of a freefall from that level now!

I remember my  father going to the lengths of actually acquiring the first publication of the Warren report when it was finally published.  It weighed more than I did. It left a lasting impression on me... just the idea that he poured through that book, cover to cover... and never said a word about it. 

I think even then, so soon after the event, he refused to believe that document was what it was said to be... a complete account.

I bet when he was 16 he "knew everything" too.

[DontTreadOnMe]

Today is the 61st Anniversary of the Murder of POTUS John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Remember............

[xpert11]

Today is the 61st Anniversary of the Murder of POTUS John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Remember............

I respect Kennedy for his WW2 service, including the famous PT109 sinking. As for his assassination, I need to learn more about Lee Harvey Oswald's ties to the Soviet Union before I pass judgment.

[Karl12]

Today is the 61st Anniversary of the Murder of POTUS John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Remember............

Yes indeed.

So maybe, just maybe, the return of a Kennedy, the late president's nephew, to the executive department of government means that at long last we have turned the corner from that awful event, and may learn who the perpetrators are.[/URL]

RECALLING THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY, SIXTY ONE YEARS AGO

One can only hope and I bet CIA Paperclipman Allen Dulles is rolling in his grave.

[UltraBudgie]

This is sad. Five years ago, about 20% of the population could remember the JFK assassination, in person. I wonder what that percent is today. I guess we'll see the same thing with 9/11, in another 40 years. Old conspiracy theories never die, only those who remember them and the fact that there may be forgotten truths buried under the lies of history do.

It reminds me of the last stanza of the song "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda":

And so now every April, I sit on me porch, and I watch the parades pass before me
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march, reviving old dreams of past glories
And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore, the forgotten heroes of a forgotten war
And the young people ask, what are they marching for? ...and I ask myself the same question

But the band plays Waltzing Matilda, and the old men still answer the call
But as year follows year, more old men disappear, someday no one will march there at all

So that is depressing and all, but it is not a new depressing, everyone's heard it, so here is another Eric Bogle song, "The Waltzing Matilda Waltz":

[DontTreadOnMe]

I respect Kennedy for his WW2 service, including the famous PT109 sinking. As for his assassination, I need to learn more about Lee Harvey Oswald's ties to the Soviet Union before I pass judgment.

Why?
Do you think he was the actual marksman who killed JFK?

What do his ties to Russia have to do with him being a patsy?

[DontTreadOnMe]

This is sad. Five years ago, about 20% of the population could remember the JFK assassination, in person. I wonder what that percent is today. I guess we'll see the same thing with 9/11, in another 40 years. Old conspiracy theories never die, only those who remember them and the fact that there may be forgotten truths buried under the lies of history do.

Forgotten truths about JFK and 9/11?  
More likely, truths never revealed and/or hidden.

[UltraBudgie]

Forgotten truths about JFK and 9/11?  
More likely, truths never revealed and/or hidden.

Well, I was thinking more of disappearing into the land of the Teapot Dome Scandal, or the Business Plot. The land of lessons not learned, that hardly anyone remembers and no one discusses, other than a passing mention in the history books. Tempus edax rerum.