IN MEMORY OF JFK

I KNOW!
THAT I HAD A POST ABOUT JFK.

BUT THIS ONE IS FROM MY OWN LIFE & TIMES GROWING UP AND VIEWS ABOUT THAT TIME AND PLACE IN MY LIFE WHEN I HEARD THE NEWS ABOUT JFK.

WHERE WERE YOU AND WHAT WERE YOU DOING WHEN YOU HEARD ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO JFK? I THINK THIS I WILL ALWAYS BE ON EVERYONE'S MIND FOREVER PLUS TWO DAYS!

HE GAVE US HOPE, TRUST, RESPECT TO US AS A NATION.
A NEW VISION FOR AMERICA!
SO FAR! NO PRESIDENT HAS EVER EVEN COME CLOSE!

IN MY FURTHER READING OF JFK.
I FOUND THAT WHEN HIS FATHER JOSEPH P.KENNEDY WAS AMBASSADOR TO THE UK.
JACK WAS ABLE TO TRAVEL TO MANY COUNTRIES AND THAT IS WHAT MADE HIM WHO HE WAS.

BIO OF JFK

IN SEARCH OF JFK

HERE IS A MAN!
WHERE HE AND WE COULD SEE TOMORROW!
WHEN OTHERS COULD NOT!
FDR CAME CLOSE!
BUT NOT CLOSE ENOUGH TO JACK!

IN OUR GENERATION!
HE WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS AND WE WILL ALWAYS BE THINKING "WHAT IF"?

FROM WHAT I READ.
HE KNEW PEOPLE.
TO ME HE SEEMED TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO YOU!
NOT AT YOU!
HE WAS MORE THAN THE "PRESSING OF THE FLESH" KIND OF MAN.

HIS WIFE JACKIE!
HAD THAT ONE OF A KIND WAY ABOUT HER.
AND HOW SHE RELATED TO THE PEOPLE OF OTHER LANDS.
NO FIRST LADY EVER COMES EVEN CLOSE TO HER.


WHEN HE WAS ASSASSINATED.
I WAS AT HOME AND WHEN I HEARD THE NEWS.
I DID NOT AT THAT TIME.KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.

THEN LATER ON.
IT HIT ME.
I REMEMBER I WAS AT  MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE AND SHE WAS CRYING WHEN SHE HEARD THE NEWS LATER THAT SAME EVENING AND THE NEWS MADE IT OFFICIAL RIGHT THERE ON THE TV SCREEN "PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD".

I WAS SEVEN ROUNDING EIGHT YEARS OLD (ON NOV. 25 ,1963 I WOULD BE TURN 8).

IT WAS SO VERY QUIET!!!!!
THE WHOLE AREA THE STREETS.
NO CARS MOVING ALL WAS A STAND STILL BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED.
THERE WAS ONLY ONE TIME WHEN THINGS WERE LIKE THIS "9/11".

I DON'T RECALL! ANYTHING OPEN.
ONLY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION WAS RUNNING.
ALL THREE (AT THAT TIME THERE WERE ONLY THREE TV STATIONS) WERE CARRYING THE PRESIDENTS FUNERAL ALL DAY (AND IT SEEMED!) AND ALL INTO THE NIGHT.NOTHING ELSE BUT THAT!

I REMEMBER MY MOM.
SAYING THAT THE PRIEST WHO DID A READING FROM THE BIBLE.
AS HE WAS READING FROM IT THE WIND BLEW A PAGE OVER BUT HE KEPT ON READING.

THE ETERNAL FLAME!
WHOEVER THOUGHT OF IT!
GENIUS!
I KNOW! I WOULD NOT EVEN HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT NAME.

TO ME!
HE HAD ALL THE THINGS WE NEEDED AT THAT TIME!
AND THEN SOME!

WHAT WE NEED!
EVEN THOUGH!
WE CANNOT GET JFK!
WE DO NEED A JFK TYPE.
AND A JACKIE TYPE AS WELL.
TO BRING BACK STYLE AND CLASS TO THE WHITE HOUSE AGAIN!

EVEN THOUGH WE DID NOT MEET!

R.I.P. JFK!

DEAR FRIEND!

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