Sometime today it occurred to me that today is November 22, so when I watched the news I was wondering when some newscaster would mention that today is the anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. So far nothing, I know that it happened 57 years ago but still, nothing??? I wasn't expecting a big retrospective but still, in between the endless reports on the coronavirus, which believe my I am not taking lightly, I though someone might slip in thirty seconds of memorial for JFK. Nothing on the CBS 6:30 news, nothing on 60 Minutes, nothing so far on the 10pm news on channel 55. I actually began to doubt my memory but Google reassured me that today is the correct date. Since this is one of those events in my lifetime that I will always remember, you know, where I was and what I was doing when I learned of it, I expect other people to remember it too. On this date in 1963 President John F. Kennedy was shot to death while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas. And I, like millions of others, was shocked to think that such a thing could happen in the 20th century in the United States. It was a loss of innocence.
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