53 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy, our youngest elected President, with all of his youth, good looks, and charisma, was suddenly shot down at age 46, shocking the world, and we are still not fully recovered from the reverberations of that event in 2016.
America lost whatever innocence it had that day, and it ushered in a whole group of assassinations and attempts over the next decade and more.
Fortunately, no President has been assassinated since then, but Ronald Reagan was severely wounded in 1981, and the problem of protection of the President and the First Family remains a constant security nightmare.
Whatever our political beliefs, we can wish good health and safety for President Elect Donald Trump and his entire family, but also realize the anger, fury, and divisiveness that has continued to escalate with recent Presidents, reaching an all time high of threats against President Barack Obama, are not likely to lessen with a new and controversial President, who speaks his mind openly more than anyone in recent memory, at least since Richard Nixon.
So the challenge to try to make the Kennedy Assassination the very last ever to occur continues to face us in the future.
I wish to remind my readers that my Assassinations book is coming out in paperback in March 2017 at the very reasonable price of $17.95 from the publisher, Rowman Littlefield, and that the Kennedy Assassination is covered in detail in Chapter 9, and the Reagan Assassination attempt is covered in Chapter 14. The threats faced by Obama are covered in Chapter 16.
It is well worth your reading.
I was at home on a sick day from school on that fateful day. Gawd, it seems like yesterday when Walter Cronkite read the announcement, looked at the clock in the newsroom to announce the time in a voice breaking with emotion ,took off
his glasses to rub his eyes…and the rest is history…