I remember the day President Kennedy was shot this is trip I'm thinking of how I
heard the news that was uh that's one of the events that where
people remembered where they were it was so important and affected so many of us
back then and for generations to come so President Kennedy was preceded by
Dwight Eisenhower the world war ii general those were the Eisenhower years
but as they're called because they were period of we associated him with a
period of stability and and u.s. dominance in the world since we were the
only world power at the time and supposedly we still are there's no
guarantee that will continue he was Kennedy was the 35th president he was
shot on Friday November the 22nd 1963 he was shot at 12:30 p.m. in in Dallas and
he died at 2:00 p.m. then that day well I was in school I was in the seventh
grade I had just started there 12 years old looking forward to everything the
life had to offer as a as all the as all young people do school was nearly out I
remember that it was the end of the day almost late afternoon we're getting
ready to go to catch the buses and back then there was no trouble on the bus
because our best shopping mr. Godwin saw the rules were strictly enforced rules
will be obeyed absolutely so mrs. Skinner my teacher the homeroom teacher
came in that late in the day actually mrs. Skinner just passed away just three
or four three four years ago she was almost a hundred years old she lived in
an old house by the by the river of tracks and Sun was the was the mayor for
many years so she came in walked over to the corner of the room to mark the Joe's
desk Arthur Joe is a classmate is this gonna
picked up Martha Joe's hand and said you know in her clipton clipped voice the
school is uh we're sad to it we're sad to inform you that President Kennedy was
assassinated today in Dallas Texas and he is he has passed away a little bit
ago so our president our president is dead
children and I can't remember all of it I don't want to try to remember too much
because I I might get it wrong or embellish it that's all I can say for
sure anyway I got on the bus and went home and and my father end and my mom's
cousin emmerich were outside putting the putting the concrete on the floor for
the machinery shed and that's what we called them the big building where we
kept the tractors and the trucks and some of the farm equipment and the paint
was not the concrete was not yet dry so being a you know
yeah I'm not more than a child at the time almost a teenager I wanted to to
write in the cement so I think I wrote something like eleven 11/22/63 Kennedy
shot or Kennedy killed that's how that's how I recall the day he seemed to think
she seemed to be different after that maybe it's my imagination may be leading
childhood behind in grammar school in getting to high school and everybody
talks about the the that the 60s kind of began the the modern 60s began about the
time that all the Kennedy was shot and when the Beatles came to America and the
Vietnam War that's what we associate with the late 60s because the Vietnam
War was just getting was beginning to increase in intensity and of course I
many more several times as many Americans died in
the Vietnam War has died in all in the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars and they
called the war on terror and of course millions of Vietnamese died to far more
thing and that all than all the civilians that have that have died from
from these more recent conflicts so Kennedy was succeeded by Lyndon Baines
Johnson in 63 and he sixty was also the beginning of the inflation we had the
repercussions of the Nam war all the injuries and the death the PTSD from
some of the survivors who came back other diseases which have lingered since
then that afflicted the soldiers and of course if Luke's meaning to Vietnamese
and we had a large dead we added that to our turn national debt that's one thing
that they created the inflation of the sixties was that and and the government
spending on President Johnson so-called Great Society which was to lift
everybody out of poverty have we learned our lesson that money alone does not
solve problems but anyhow this is all I'm going to say about it that's how I
remember the day that President Kennedy was shot this is uh mrs. Tripp and thank
you for listening be free feel free to comment below

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