To this day I can still remember watching JFK’s funeral procession on a little black and white television in my Grandmother’s living room and asking her why the boots were in the stirrups backward on a horse with no rider.
If I hadn’t seen a post from someone else earlier while at work today I would not have remembered what happened on this November day back in 1963.
It was the theft of the thinking class.
It was my father that told me that the horse’s name was Blackjack or Black Jack. (not sure which is correct.)
If the nation wasn’t already irreparably damaged prior to JFK’s assassination, his murder probably did mark the death of America (in retrospect). I’d maintain that there was plenty of fatal level damage already done prior though, given what was accomplished by (of under) Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR.
I was in last period study hall when the news came over the PA system. There was always an undercurrent buzz of whispering in study hall even though the rule was no talking. After the announcement there was dead silence until they announced that school was dismissed. Then pandemonium.
We all clapped…
Perhaps some day in the future people will look back and recognize when the CIA killed a President, finally ending the Constitutional Republic that Lincoln ripped apart.
Nailed it.
A day that changed the world, second only to the crucifixion
Was in sixth grade, teachers were upset and crying, was sent home not knowing what the hell everybody was upset about. Had to ask my mother when I got home.
I’m still pissed the ‘supposed adults’ couldn’t be honest with us and tell us what the hell was going on. I think that was where I really started questioning the motives of all authority figures. Why are you telling or not telling me this, are you covering your ass or somebody else’s, and who is profiting from it?
I was 10, and I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. I “knew” a lot when I was 10, and was very assertive about it, even though it took me decades to be that certain.
I felt as though they’d killed us all, and also that LHO was innocent.
Dunno if others can identify, but more and more I am realizing how right I was when I was a little girl. I think ALL of us are born knowing stuff that gets metaphorically, or physically, beaten out of us.
Now you know why the Frankfurt school of thought and education was fostered on us, to rid us of natural intelligence and knowledge to become useful drones and compliant sheep salivating over our “betters” and elites and remain subjects instead of a sovereign, intelligent critical thinking person.
Thank you. I guess that’s another thing I instinctively knew but never really bring up to clarity like yours.
They couldn’t beat it out of me, but I did have long periods of being distracted from it.
72 and still needing reminding sometimes. So, yes, thank you.
nines, is your email address correct with the “n” as the first letter and through yahoo? I sent you an email to that address.
Yeah, the damned Frankfurt School. Those Germans really ARE the most evil people in all of history, aren’t they?
Also, them Kennedy boys had some bad luck, fer shure. Less than five years after JFK, RFK is killed by a totally lone-wolf Palestinian. (Those animals. The second-worst people on earth. After only the Germans.) And not just any Palestinian, but a Christian Palestinian. What are the odds?
Are you being sarcastic or were you born that way? Long time no see, how the heck are you?
Sarcastic about what?
The Frankfurt school and the Kennedy boys.
I was in the chow hall At the Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune, N.C. Sgt Major came I screaming don’t take another fucking bite get the fuck out if here go to your outfits and await orders. By the way it was spaghetti.
I watched the funeral in a classroom in the 3rd grade. It was the first time I saw a color TV