Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed as his motorcade drove through Dallas. At 12:30 p.m., a bullet struck Kennedy in the back and another killed him with a final shot to the head. The shooter, according to government investigations, was Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald denied shooting anyone, claiming he was a patsy. Two days later, while being transferred from the city jail to the county jail, Oswald was shot and mortally wounded by Jack Ruby on live television.
I was 10 years old when this happened, and vividly remember the day- mom had brought my brother and I back from the dentist, and was trying to get us to go to school. We made it to the corner, when a lady wearing a polka dot scarf on her head driving a two tone car slammed on her brakes, and started crying. She asked where we were going and we said school and she said "there won't be any school today honey"...which caused us to look at one another and then scurry home, just in time to see our dad, a policeman, swing his police cruiser into the driveway, run into the house to turn on the TV. I thinki I started crying then, and probably cried right thru Thanksgiving....I know dad told us this was history unfolding before our eyes, and giving us a hug...
I always thought this to have happened about 10 AM Pacific time, and the account above says it happened at 12:30 PM Central...so i guess I was pretty close...
For several years, i have tried to post videos of event like this one, mostly because people my daughters age have no idea why people my age get so upset. However the last 40 seconds of this video of Walter Cronkite really get me to cry...that a man who had seen so much in WW II, including the London Blitz, covered the Korean war and elsewhere, was force to fumble and quickly regain composure when it was confirmed the president had died. It really was a national day of sadness...
The autopsy photos are available if you care to see them. Kennedy had a large hole in the back of his head, in the back of his head, which if you know anything about ballistics means that the bullet that caused the big hole in the back of Kennedy's head and the small hole in the front of his head came from in front of Kennedy. I will end it here. Well, except to say that 9/11 was not the first big government cover up in the history of the US.
ReplyDeleteThanks Canice, it's been a while since I watched this.
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