JFK 50 years ago

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by GBBob

I was around..but..I was one day old

Happy one day late birthday

[Danzig]

wasn't around yet.

[Danzig]

http://news.msn.com/us/the-jfk-assas...of-a-president


i wonder if the idiot holding the sign in the fourth pic ever felt bad about his stance? i hope so.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://news.msn.com/us/the-jfk-assas...of-a-president


i wonder if the idiot holding the sign in the fourth pic ever felt bad about his stance? i hope so.

You can't fix stupid

Commuters read about John F. Kennedy's assassination. Even 50 years later, Americans who lived through the day President John F. Kennedy was killed do not have to pause to summon recollections.

Remember it all too well..and all the aftermath..

wasn't around yet.

Figured that..

[cal828]

Originally Posted by bigrun

You can't fix stupid




Remember it all too well..and all the aftermath..





Figured that..

Like you DJ, I remember it all too well. Walter Chronkite practically breaking down sobbing himself as he announced the president's death. LBJ getting sworn in with Jackie in attendance still in her blood stained clothes. Then later, the slow funeral procession with the President's casket on the gun carriage making its way to the Capitol Rotunda and the riderless horse led by the soldier in his dress uniform. And still later, John-Johns little salute to his Dad. Sad stuff, that stays with you forever.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by cal828

Like you DJ, I remember it all too well. Walter Chronkite practically breaking down sobbing himself as he announced the president's death. LBJ getting sworn in with Jackie in attendance still in her blood stained clothes. Then later, the slow funeral procession with the President's casket on the gun carriage making its way to the Capitol Rotunda and the riderless horse led by the soldier in his dress uniform. And still later, John-Johns little salute to his Dad. Sad stuff, that stays with you forever.

Over the years can't count the times i've watched the above you describe..
Figured you and Ocala Mike and maybe couple others might remember..
and Dan Rather made his bones with on the spot reporting...

[Danzig]

the horses name was black jack...funny how that stuff sticks in your head.


taps is always mournful, but i don't know that i've ever heard a more heart-wrenching rendition then the one for jfk.


iirc, arlington has two teams of horses, one set black, and one white, and they use them on alternate days. seems like they were on 'white horse' day, but the family or the white house had requested the black horses be used.