Actually, I am more upset by the loss of the great Russian baritone, Dmitri Hvorostovsky who died Wednesday.
There was an article this week in the Daily Mail about the theory that the CIA hired Jackie Kennedy to kill JFK.
Well, it wasn’t a ‘big’ anniversary, like 50 years or anything. There were the usual rehashed documentaries on the history channels. I think the big reason is that the dump of all the new assassination documents earlier in the month kind of caused the usual chatter about the assassination to be exhausted a bit earlier this year.
I suspect that like many other things from the “before-times” (basically all of our history prior to the radicalism of the late 1960s), these items mean very little to an ignorant, increasingly foreign public.
So, who remembers McKinley?
That has been the trend for several years now.
No, it’s not just another day, it’s my Anniversary. We are reminded every year that “did you know that’s the day Kennedy was assinated?”
“notice how little was said about the anniversary this year of the Kennedy assassination ? I did not hear anything about it in the media til......”
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Even w/so many years of the JFK thing, books written, movies, etc. It has gone away in effect...and we are right back @ restart again.
Bad guys always prevail here @ Planet WTF!
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It is slowly being forgotten, as has been D-Day and anything else that wasn’t experienced by the majority of the population. Now that I think about it, I didn’t even hear Don McLean’s “American Pie” - a song I have disliked since it was released - anywhere I was at over this past week.
Thirty years from now September 11 will have the same lack of recognition.
54 years isn’t one of the sexy anniversaries. And it also means that about 70% of the country wasn’t alive when it happened. Really at this point the most interesting part about the JFK assassination is that he was our last president to die in office.
Fine by me. It’s been long enough hashing through the events of Nov 22, ‘63 every which way to Tuesday. Perhaps since it fell on the day before Thanksgiving this year was also a factor.
I think it has more to do with more people have no personal connection with the event than do. More than half of the population was born or at an age when they would remember the event. As someone else mentioned, who remembers McKinley?
Maybe it wasn’t Ted Cruz’s Dad on the grassy knoll, but Donald Trump’s Dad. I have not heard an adequate explanation yet as to what Trump’s Dad was doing on that date...just sayin’.
Now the Kennedy assassination is in the same league as the Lincoln assassination (which had a much bigger impact on the country than the Kennedy shooting) and the first moon walk in 1969.
YOUR post is really the first...
Thanks.
First because he was Catholic. No Christian can be in office that is Christian according to them now.
Catholics abhor Homosexual Marriage now so Progressives would put their hate toward him. And especially on Abortion regardless of what he would say.
JFK was a strong Anti-Communist. Progressives admire it.
JFK was for Tax Cuts and implemented them. Progressive and Democrats are lock step against them.
JFK would not win a DemocRATic nomination now. .
Do we note the anniversary of the assassination of President McKinley?
WSJ did a piece on the assassination, focusing on the “X” that is mysteriously painted and repainted on the Dallas street where Kennedy died.