I was in 3rd grade in Dallas then. We frequently passed by Dealey Plaza on our way to my grandmothers house in Mesquite. My father watched the motorcade pass by him in front of Texas Instruments on Lemon Avenue. Love Field was a short distance away. I was very familiar with the section of Stemmons Freeway, and just north was the Trade Mart and Parkland Hospital. Having all this happen anywhere was terrible but it was particularly horrific for me having it occur in Dallas. And it just kept being one damn thing after the next. It was so surreal all of this occuring in my world. To me this created a major milestone in American culture. For me this is where distrust in government was born. A lot of hope started to wane and the 60s just made it worse and worse. 1968 was another milestone of darkness. Thank you for reading my long winded testemony. Th8s still gives me great pain but I owe it to President Kennedy to remember and honor his memory.😢
15:32: media implying “rightists groups” behind assassination. Nothing seems to ever change. Funny how people advocating for decentralized authority are always blamed for the actions the statists do as a means to further concentrate their power
At least we got to know that the woman putting the books away was having a thanksgiving dinner, would have liked to have found out what happened in that episode but it was taken off air for the president incident. Let’s hope the dinner went well eh 👍
I was six years old when the world stopped because of this tragedy. It was a defining moment in history. This video brings us back to the life changing event.
If Trump wins in November, Project 2025 will be implemented and women will be REQUIRED to wear a dress like this woman! And women's suffrage will go away, since they will delete the 19th amendment. And there will be an official religion for each state, and you will be REQUIRED by law to attend.
I was a young boy in the late 60's. I can remember watching the evening news w/Walter Cronkite, and the other newscasters of the other networks. If those men and women showed any emotion, then you understood that something serious was going down. Something today's news people have lost with their over-the-top approach to news presentation. Clearly a far superior, bygone era.
It is a mortal sin how news journalists are one-sided. They are LIARS. THEY WANT TO RUIN THE RIGHT. RADIO, NEWS TV, MAGAZINE, AND PAPERS SPEW HATE TOWARDS TRUMP. Why the hell can't those so-called news people be real and honest like Walter Cronkite. He must be rolling over in his grave. Shame on those liars that treat the public like peons.
Everything in our country is a mess! It's very sad. I don't know what the answers are. I love America. I believe it did start with Kennedy's assasination because then came the violence toward RFK and Martin Luther King. The sixties riots, the Vietnam War, drugs, etc. Then we didn't learn and went right into war again in Afghanistan. The violence has continued to escalate and today our children are killing our children. It seems hopeless. Not to get into politics but this is why I cannot support Mr Trump. In my opinion, he is hot head and I don't was his finger on the nuclear bomb button!
Really off subject -- both of those men played doctors on the show, and there they were -- both smoking. I'm old -- I stayed home from school that day with a cold, and was watching this with my mother as it happened. All of the neighbors went out on their lawns in a state of shock and gathered in groups of 4 and 5 to discuss. Then, went back inside to follow t.v. for more information.
I was 5 years old, watching TV at home. I ran to the kitchen to tell my Mom that the President had been shot. We both sat on a low table in the living room, glued to the TV set. Back then, everyone was crying because JFK, Sr. was enormously popular. Marilyn Monroe had mysteriously died 15 months before. Then 4 years after JFK, Sr., Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 and then 2 months later in 1968, Bobby Kennedy, Sr. was assassinated. A lot of Mafia back then too on the news. It was scary.
I was almost 4 when Cronkite broke the news as I watched TV. Parents were having coffee with my Uncle when I interrupted their conversation, he laughed n told my parents what an imagination I had especially for someone so young! I kept yelling to look for themselves. They did n were shocked. Almost 65 yrs now n that's my earliest recollection at such a young age. I watched the horse drawn funeral, probably shouldn't have as from THAT day until 1976 I had nightmares of being dead! I felt like I was covered with the American flag, I could see stripes n stars through the fabric with my arms neatly folded over my chest with my family all standing around me as if .....I was laid out for a funeral viewing. God knows it was a horrible nightmare for me at such a tender age!! I also recall how everyone was morning such a great loss. NOTE; Parents be aware.
Walter Cronkite's official announcement of the President's death @58:35 I was born four days later in Falmouth, Massachusetts hospital near Wood's Hole, my parent's home at the time. So although I couldn't be there to experience the moment, it would have of course been huge national news, shock, and mourning. I personally refer to it as a snapshot of the state of the country, and to some extent the world, at the time of my birth. TVs were in almost every American home by then, and we can see what people were watching at the time of this breaking news alert, which back then actually meant something of real actual consequence. Today "breaking news" could just be that some celebrity took a dump or broke up with their boy/girlfriend. I do remember watching Walter Cronkite reporting national news over many following years. He really was a national treasure, like a father-figure to the TV-viewing public.
𝙒𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀 𝙒𝙀𝙍𝙀 𝙔𝙊𝙐? I was 9 years old in the 4th grade when the Girls came back from Swimming Classes" they were yelling, the presidents been shot! Within a few minutes, Our Teacher let us all go home. We were all in walking distance from school. As a young Boy, I was in disbelief! Why would someone want to kill our President? Why? The World got a lot frightening! My family watched "President Kennedys Funeral" all weekend. My parents had a photo of the President. I held it in my hands thinking how sorry I felt for him being Assassinated. Never to see his family again 😢 November 22nd, 1963, will always be in my mind. It's like it just happened. Even today, my Heart ❤goes out to that family. Although, most of them were reunited in Heaven! ✝
The age of Sources, Sources, SOURCES!!! Much respect for WC. Today’s media would’ve declared Kennedy dead at the first rumor. I miss the golden age of journalism.
Remarkable that this tragedy did not usher in common sense gun safety reforms. If a world leader can so easily be assasinated what does this entail for the safety of the public at large?
