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[Big Fish Billy]

"All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came. "

JFK Speech given at Newport at the dinner before the America's Cup Races, September 1962


Remembering a fellow boating enthusiast..........

 

[tpenfield]

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50 years ago, today. . . .

We had one of our staff going around the office yesterday just seeing who was old enough to remember that day and what they recall, etc.

I was in the third grade and remember coming home, going upstairs and finding out about it. Remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[Big Fish Billy]

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Same here, in 8th grade at the time, in study hall, testing the aerodynamics of paper airplanes.......watching all the tv clips of that time period, as you say, seems like yesterday.....

 

[greenbush future]

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I was only 3 so I don't quite remember this, I do have several other moments that were profound enough to remember exactly when/where.

 

[Bob_VT]

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50 years ago, today. . . .

We had one of our staff going around the office yesterday just seeing who was old enough to remember that day and what they recall, etc.

I was in the third grade and remember coming home, going upstairs and finding out about it. Remember it like it was yesterday.

Both of us were in the third grade I was in Catholic School and I remember us being told to kneel down and pray over the loudspeaker. Yes a very vivid memory and then staying home for the funeral on TV.

JFK was indeed a boater and a swimmer based on WWII and his PT-109 action....... he proved to be a hero and was very fond of the military.

JFK's passing and televised ceremony set the precedent for all of the current events we watched as we grew up.

 

[tpenfield]

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Both of us were in the third grade I was in Catholic School and I remember us being told to kneel down and pray over the loudspeaker. Yes a very vivid memory and then staying home for the funeral on TV.

Yea, the school decided not to tell us kids, but they privately told the teachers. We were headed home in an hour or so anyway.

Funny thing is that during "9/11", my kids were in the same elementary school, and the teachers/administration did not tell them about that either.

 

[95roadking]

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I was out on my Harley. Stopped at my Buddys house. His mother came out hollering, the President;s been shot, the President;s been shot!!!! Sad, sad day!!

 

[Big Fish Billy]

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We had Walter Cronkite on the public address system...it was the end of a certain kind of America that day....

 

[jerryjerry05]

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Was 13 and had stayed home sick from school.
Watching TV and saw the whole thing.
Sad day for the US

 

[Thalasso]

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I was out on my Harley. Stopped at my Buddys house. His mother came out hollering, the President;s been shot, the President;s been shot!!!! Sad, sad day!!

You must really be old
I had skipped school and was at the pool hall. Next year i enlisted.

 

[generator12]

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I was working in the open hearth furnace area of a steel mill when it went down. And I was devastated.

J.F.K. was a man of vision, and as charismatic as a man can be. He was bright, motivated, learned, and accomplished. And most of all, he was a LEADER. He was the kind of man you would follow into hell.

He had demonstrated his personal courage during the war (PT 109 - He still had a bad back from that experience. In fact, the first doctor to treat him a Parkland in Dallas has opined that the brace he wore that day cost him his life by preventing him from falling forward after the first shot, leaving Oswald a perfect target for the fatal shot.)

He had energized the country with his visions, including the beginning of the manned space program. He demonstrated an empathy for the poor and disadvantaged, as well as an understanding of the requirements of government as a supporter of business growth. He was vigorous and positive; his speeches and press conferences all exposed a confidence in the country as the true leader of the free world, and of its people as the source of the country's greatness. Not just wordsmithing - he believed in these ideas.

When he and Jackie went abroad, they were idolized by the citizens of foreign countries, whose respect for the U.S. soared as a result. He stood at the Berlin wall and stated (in German), "I am a Berliner!", and instantly gained the admiration of people everywhere still living under communist rule. And he faced down the Russians when they were installing ballistic missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from our shore.

My friends, I had voted against him in 1960, and was as sorry and distraught at losing him as anyone in the country on that day.

 

[DayCruiser]

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One thing I don't understand is why President Kennedy didn't take his security seriously? I read where there were only 15 Secret Service agents assigned to the motorcade. Here he is riding down the road in a convertible. His job whizzed a lot of people off at home and around the world. I mean really, President Lincoln was assassinated. You would have thought he would learned from that long ago event. He wanted to be close to the people but that was highly risky without the type security Presidents have these days

 

[tpenfield]

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I think the Secret Service learned quite a bit from that day.

A few years ago, I saw a documentary on the History Channel about the Secret Service. It seemed that they were a bit under funded in the early 1960's. Combine that with Kennedy's desire to 'press the flesh' and you have the makings for a tragedy.

 

[Alwhite00]

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Anyone ever read this? LBJ Killed JFK... American History and Politics

LOTS of interesting theories and a lot of them make a lot of sense. - Just sayin'

LK

 

[waterinthefuel]

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Anyone ever read this? LBJ Killed JFK... American History and Politics

LOTS of interesting theories and a lot of them make a lot of sense. - Just sayin'

LK

A bunch of conspiracy bunk. If that had been the case, Lee would have stopped at killing JFK. But he didn't, later on he shot someone else dead. That wouldn't make any sense. The guy was a lunatic. They have people that have his prints on the gun and have him leaving the book depository. Nobody else did it but LHO.

 

[Big Fish Billy]

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Well as Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman...."it's easier to believe the bad things."