I was six living in Anchorage Alaska what I remember is my mom crying hysterically, it scared us kids and the black and white tv we had kept saying the president is dead. I remember that day only because of how it affected my mom and the tv. Then Robert was killed, I was old enough to understand that.
I was seven, in second grade at a Catholic school in Kentucky. We were outside during our post-lunch recess (fish sticks or grilled cheese back in the no-meat Fridays era). A nun came out and rang the hand bell calling us in. We went back to our classrooms and the principal (also a nun) announced over the PA that the president had been shot in Dallas and we should all pray for him. The principal and some other nuns were listening to radio coverage in the office. Shortly after, she came back on and told us he was dead, dismissing us early. Some girls cried; I remember walking home with some schoolmates, one of whom said that Kennedy had had chicken for lunch and had gone straight to hell. The other friend said he had a special dispensation “from the Pope” to eat meat, so all was well with his soul. How either would have come by this information is a mystery. Being Catholic second-graders in 1963, breaking any of the many church rules loomed large in our concept of sin. When I got home, my Mom was crying. We spent the weekend glued to the old black-and-white, watching the coverage and over the next few days watching the funeral. This was the first exposure I had to the big, chaotic world outside of family and school where really bad things could happen and our insulated life wasn’t necessarily as orderly as it seemed. Great video, MM - up to your usual level of quality coverage.
The film was very well done and nicely presented. I just returned from Dallas with Ruth Paine. We visited the house she owned where Oswald slept the night before the assassination. The day before we left for Texas in I was fortunate to see Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who jumped up on the back of the limo to push Jackie back into the car. I stood in the jail cell where Oswald was held as a prisoner. I saw the spot in the basement where Jack Ruby shot Oswald. We went to the location where JD Tippit was murdered and then to the Texas theater where Oswald was captured. I visited the house in Dallas where Oswald posed in the backyard with the rifle he would use to assassinate the president. On November 22 I stood in Dealey Plaza with Ruth Paine with hundreds of others at 12:30 PM,the exact time of the assassination 60 years earlier. I experienced all of this in the span of five days.
Even though we didn't get to hear you tell the story (which is always fun and educational), this was a REALLY good vid! Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it). ✌❤
Good video young lady ! I remember when he was shot ,, I was only 10 years old was in school in New York ,at that age the thing that scared me the most was what will happen to America ? I was to young to know all about the way our political system worked .THANK you Frank from montana......
Fantastic video. Full of information and so sensitively done. Thank you for not mentioning him in this special 60th anniversary tribute to the death of J F K A great pity John-John has gone and was not able to see this. But why would he want to when he is in the company of his parents anyway Along with the death of Diana, his assassination has been.almost constant on my thoughts since it happened. I'm in the UK, and it was the evening news when we all found out over here. It was an absolute tragedy fir Jackie, his family, friends.and for the United States R. I. P. the Kennedys
Secret service. They wasn't Protecting him when he was shot. They should've been standing on the back of the car. If it was raining. Why was the roof off? William s
20:08 As far as I know, Bob Huffaker had the only open microphone close to Daly Plaza that day, with his reporting from Main and Akard. I don't think anyone has ever studied this piece of audio for gunshots in the background… The assassination site was less than a mile away.
I’ve been fascinated with the Kennedy assassination and the Kennedys since the inauguration in 1960 as a young boy Jackie was my first crush in the fourth grade. But this video is one of the best I’ve ever seen very good job young lady.
I’m Australian and I remember the news flash came on the tv. I was 8 yrs old and to this day I swear he was in a Cavalry, so I thought he must have been on a horse. Of course we do know the right message it was a cavalcade which I did not understand at that moment. I was devastated then and I’m still devastated now. My mum cried and said he was a good man and didn’t deserve to die. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hello from Grand Prairie, Texas. I’m 36 miles away but often travel to the Dallas for business. As a 52 yo F, I don’t know a soul who believes the Magic Bullet Theory. Too many suspects and diversions to learn the truth. One thing is certain, Lee was a MKULTRA Patsy.
@@gocardinals8887 I don’t believe that Lee was able to get off 3 bullets with that gun at that distance. Maybe one but very doubtful. In addition, how was he able to shoot the president from the front, too? What about behind the grassy knoll? It was a train station with lots of traffic, an easy escape for the shooters. And the found bullet, can you explain it’s pristine condition after traveling through 2 people with an impossible trajectory?
@@gocardinals8887 as a Texas hunter, I am familiar with bullet damage. Which is why I am asking who shot from the front due to the gaping hole in back of head where his brains blew out the back, not front, of his head?
