Venue for Nov 28, thoughts

[JolyB]

Originally Posted by cal828

but ask me where I was when JFK was assassinated and what was going on then and I remember it clear as day. Course I was only 19 then. Seems like eons have passed since those days and speaking of that, was it not 11/22/63? I don't think I saw a thing in the news media about it. Is it possible that America has forgotten or did I just miss it?

The only mention of 11/22 being the anniversary of JFK's assassination in our local paper was a one sentence entry in the "Today in History" area that AP puts together. It received exactly the same mention as today's entry of 11/24/63 when Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald while live TV cameras were rolling.

Perhaps the noise from a combination of the never ending election cycle and the COVID-19 pandemic have just drowned out everything else; I've had the belief for some time that we don't spend enough time learning about either our history or about basic civics, and we are the worse off for that.