49 Years Ago Today

and for us boomers that grew up during those tumultuous times this President was a symbol of many of our hopes and dreams and he has now gone down in history as one of our most influential and most approved of presidents of all time.

His mark on history is inevitable and unquestionable my friend and the United States would be a much better place today had he not been taken away from us because he did believe in liberty and justice for all.

but for those of us, old geezers, and aging boomers, we will never forget where we were and how we heard about it.

And we can always sigh about how things could have changed. And then sigh and mourn again when we remember Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.

It's a great possibility that our involvement in Vietnam would have ended or not have been increased. We would not have had Nixon possibly. Who knows?

It's one of my earliest memories from childhood.

piercing and blood curdling scream as the news of his passing was being told to us on our black and white admiral television by Walter Cronkite. She was a very involved and active participant for President Kennedy and his passing not only broke her heart but also the heart of an entire generation of Americans and although I was only 11 myself at the time this tragedy taught me a horrible lesson of just how deep a hatred for change in America there already was.

it's all kind of a blur after that. RIP JFK.

The kids who went home for lunch came back telling us about this tragedy.