JFK was in Dallas because he was campaigning in 63 for reelection in 64. His reelection was not in the bag.
Acting like he beat Nixon in a landslide and was so popular is rewriting history.
He would of been destroyed by the internet and press if he was running today for his extramarital affairs.
Besides, He would be a Republican now.
Not a chance he could run as a democrat these days.
I can still remember being sent home from school that day and wondering why my teacher was crying.
I was 5 years old...Rushton Elementary, Mission, Kansas...

j57 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:24 am JFK was in Dallas because he was campaigning in 63 for reelection in 64. His reelection was not in the bag.
Acting like he beat Nixon in a landslide and was so popular is rewriting history.
He would of been destroyed by the internet and press if he was running today for his extramarital affairs.
Besides, He would be a Republican now.
Not a chance he could run as a democrat these days.
I can still remember being sent home from school that day and wondering why my teacher was crying.
I was 5 years old...Rushton Elementary, Mission, Kansas...

Besides, He would be a Republican now. Talk about rewriting history...

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:47 am how many others recall the day ? i was in junior high.
Announcement over the loud speaker and than sent home for the day

Not his best song, but well worth listening to twice to get all he has to say

Yes. And isnt it amazing how Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa are still able to put out new songs?

j57 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:24 am Besides, He would be a Republican now.

If he had been re-elected he would have been called a Socialist according to many Americans definition these days.

When Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in November of 1963, he knew that in order to accrue political capital he would initially need to champion goals and policies that Kennedy had already been pursuing.
Not long before his death Kennedy had scrawled the word "poverty" on a piece of paper and circled it multiple times; this note fell into the hands of his brother Robert and became a symbolic justification for Johnson's declaration of the War on Poverty, early in 1964.
Similarly, many of the things that Johnson pushed through Congress in his first two years as President—such as an $11 billion tax cut, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the 1965 laws that brought Medicare and Medicaid into existence and that poured billions of federal dollars into primary and secondary education—can readily be seen as extensions of the avowed policies of the Kennedy Administration.
The details might have been different—and Kennedy might well have had more trouble than Johnson passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965—but historians generally agree that if Kennedy had lived out his first term and won a second, America would have witnessed something similar to the early years of Johnson's Great Society.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:05 am

Marty wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:01 am

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:47 am how many others recall the day ? i was in junior high.
Announcement over the loud speaker and than sent home for the day

Not his best song, but well worth listening to twice to get all he has to say

Yes. And isnt it amazing how Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa are still able to put out new songs?

dylan is alive, zappa is dead

I had to look it up but yeah you are correct. I thought both were pushing up daisies. Nevertheless, dead Zappa manages to release new music as time goes on. I would like to see him as President. After Trump's second term.

Kennedy.

Another loony who was in the white house for a while.

Cocaine, Hollywood starlets, whiskey, madness. Finger on the red button. Weekly treatment for VD from raw dogging whores.

Good times.