Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: JFKs death
TPM Reader JS asks ...
Have you noticed the lack of commemoration of the assassination of JFK on November 22, 1963? I find no reference to that sad, and seminal, event. Am I the only person who reads the blogs and has a personal memory of that day?
Certainly hadn't occurred to me. But now that he mentions it, yes, it did used to be a date for which there was always some build up and moments of commemoration. But now nothing...
Hmmm. Before my time, actually, if truth be known, and JFK was never one of my heroes (centrist Democratic presidents are a plague on our house, imho), but still, seems like this should be a day of some sort of eulogy. Presidents should never get shot - even ones I despise. I know my mom still gets choked up over Nov 23, 1963.
I blame the lack of public gnashing of teeth on Oliver Stone positing as fact that LBJ had something to do with the murder of JFK. Maybe that's just because I'm from Austin, and did a diss' on LBJ. Does seem a little odd.
Tags: assassination, /JFK, /LBJ
Here is a commemoration of JFK's assassination you might have missed:
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