Sunday, November 22, 2020

A date I remember

 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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