Dealey Plaza visit evokes tragedy of Nov. 22, 1963 (Daily Breeze)

[struggle4progress]

... Most of us who can recall that day firsthand were young and enamored with a class-traitor, Irish-Catholic president whose real gift was provoking our better angels ...

We were going to die thermonuclear style. But somehow this guy appearing on TVs set up in the school cafeteria to scare us stupid seemed cool and in charge, still navigating like a PT boat commander the near-disastrous learning curve that began with the Bay of Pigs ...

But it is the murder of John Kennedy that would be recalled as the day that America lost its innocence. This in an America that has lost its innocence more times than a Vegas escort ...

What they did was pass into history on tiny TV screens, first with images from Parkland Hospital and then with Jackie emerging traumatized from the plane blood-soaked and refusing to change because she wanted everyone to see " what they did to him" ...

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[Bitwit1234]

1. When visiting my son

in Louisiana when he was in the air force, in the 1970's. My husband and I drove to Dallas to get a look at Dealey Plaza. It seemed so ordinary to have been such a spot in history. And regardless of what committee investigates and what they do I still think the other party was somehow responsible. I said it in 1963 and I say it now. THEY DID IT.

[struggle4progress]

2. Dallas for many years simply attempted to forget the assassination. The Kennedy

memorial was the least they could do, and they did the least they could do in that regard. I remember visiting the memorial thirty years ago, and it was a sorry affair: it was four unattractive cheap concrete walls, which were already starting to disintegrate, enclosing a square of pavement that smelled strongly of urine, apparently because the interior was almost completely hidden from public view and therefore a convenient place for folk to relieve themselves