JFK: When The Light Went Out Of The Sky

[DonViejo]

Jamie Stiehm

November 24, 2017 3:20 am

SANTA MONICA — Nov. 22 will always be a day the heavens are hung in black.

John F. Kennedy was the American president on a bright morning in Texas. He was murdered at midday in Dallas, in 1963. The world’s heart stood still before it broke. Beyond our borders, Berlin and Dublin wept because Kennedy won over their citizens. He built goodwill abroad and spoke in German: “I am a Berliner!”

People loved listening to Kennedy for lofty ideas crossed with cool wit. It didn’t hurt that he was tall, slender and movie-star handsome after the grandfatherly general, Dwight D. Eisenhower. In his 1961 inaugural address, he made a point of saying the torch had been passed to a new generation of Americans, “born in this century.” Kennedy was born in 1917, a century ago.

It was well to reflect on a paradise lost, as Thanksgiving was celebrated around the nation. I promise you this salted the holiday with bittersweet herbs, as we consider the overstuffed turkey in the White House today.

My father and I counted the ways that Jack Kennedy was different from Donald Trump.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. I'm still heart broken and bereft. nt

[Submariner]

2. Murdered in the City of Hate that has so radically changed our history

It's bad enough to feel distraught as November 22nd approaches each year, but this Dallas shit-stain Barton makes it that much worse this year by getting his dick-pick story in the headlines, rather than the honorable story of JFK who was murdered on the streets of the City of Hate.

[Thor_MN]

3. Frozen in time, older than my father, but forever 46.

I feel robbed of the first President of my life, I was just 11 months old on that day.

In a different way, I feel robbed of a President for eight years in the 2000s, and currently.