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| Mobson | Nov 22 2013, 02:46 PM Post #1 |
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Apparently on BBC Breakfast this morning they were asking "Where were you when you heard President Kennedy had been assassinated 50 years ago today? ".... 50 years on, Dallas Texas the city of his killing, will hold its first formal event "The 50th: Honoring the Memory of President John F. Kennedy, to acknowledge his life and contributions." http://www.50thhonoringjohnfkennedy.com/ There will be a commemorative breakfast at the same site of the 1963 breakfast where the president spoke at the Hotel Texas in downtown Fort Worth and an official ceremony at Dealey Plaza the site of the assassination...where crowds will gather to pay tribute to his legacy...Yesterday President Obama laid a wreath as part of a day of events honouring the assassinated president. Who in this lifetime, has not at one time or another, for however a short time, not heard or given thought to this man John F Kennedy, his presidency and it's premature end? I got to know the family set-up as a teen through a bizarre long-playing record that we had at home which parodied the First Family in sketches about their going's on..wonder if my parents still have it - must ask them. so where were you? Edited by Mobson, Nov 22 2013, 02:48 PM.
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| rumbaba | Nov 22 2013, 02:58 PM Post #2 |
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I was watching TV and I remember the news flash: I ran off to tell my mum. I knew it was very important and not a good thing. |
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| Mobson | Nov 22 2013, 03:16 PM Post #3 |
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I honestly can't remember where I was, at home I think, but I know I was shocked to the core at the time...& very upset being a lively and very aware teen... Years later when renting a house in Barbados one Christmas, there was a book in the library called Death of A President by William Manchester (pub in 1967) - I remember being so engrossed in the book that I was forced by others to put it down to go swimming or join in family actitivities... unwittingly it turned out to be my only holiday reading... ‘Their life together now had nearly a full day to run. Yet this was to be their last hour of serenity. The tyranny of events and exhaustion would begin to close in when they finished the two-hundred-mile lap to Houston. ‘Actually, they hadn’t even an hour. In this plane the hop took only forty-five minutes. Privacy was that limited, confined to a tiny blue cabin racing 30,000 feet above the tessellated green and brown plains of central Texas . . . Their time was up. The President emerged in a fresh shirt.’ This passage refers to information that has been made public now on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination by writer Philip Nobile who told the New York Post that Manchester had told him in the mid-1970s when he was researching an as-yet-unpublished book about JFK’s reputation as a Casanova. The two writers had met to discuss Kennedy in the mid-1970s when they both shared the same literary agent. Manchester told Nobile that Jackie had revealed to him that she and her husband had made love for the last time on Air Force One during the short flight from San Antonio to Houston on the afternoon of November 21, 1963, the day before her husband's assassination. Manchester admitted that in order to include the sensitive material in his own book, he had used euphemisms and avoided being explicit about what he knew. Edited by Mobson, Nov 23 2013, 08:30 AM.
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| May-Cee | Nov 22 2013, 09:05 PM Post #4 |
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It was a wee bit before my time. I was two years and two weeks old - so probably asleep in a pram in Belfast. But I do like the remark by that grumpy-but-witty old so-and-so, Christopher Hitchens (an allusion to the Cuban missile crisis) - "I'll never forget where I was on the day Kennedy almost killed me." |
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| Mobson | Nov 23 2013, 08:58 AM Post #5 |
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Wow, how good is my memory! The First Family was the actual name of the hilarious (at the time it was considered hilarious) multi-million selling comedy/parody album released in 1962 about the JFK Presidency by an American comedian/impersonator called Vaughn Meader who won Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1963...Meader's career came to an abrupt end after President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. Here's an interesting article in Billboard yesterday about how JFK Helped Vaughn Meader Win Chart-Topping Popular Vote! http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/5800497/jfk-helped-vaughn-meader-win-chart-topping-popular-vote & in this extract from the album, JFK has a surprise for Jackie - He has his eyes on a White House! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWA3XRhyMCE Edited by Mobson, Nov 23 2013, 08:59 AM.
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