My thoughts and rememberances of JFK

**jerrybob50** · April 11th, 2012

I loved the novel and could only one small item that departed from true reality. A small mention was made about a JFK trip to Houston in 1962 where he made a speech in an open auditorium. I was there at age 11 and the speech was made at Rice Stadium. I remember small aircraft circling overhead carrying signs protesting the Kennedy Cuba policy. I was in the upper stands with a clear view of the President and the day was clear and sunny. On his next trip through Houston he did not make a similar speech open to the public in Houston.

Jerry McAdams

**GNTLGNT** · April 12th, 2012

...can't argue with one who was there, but again-it doesn't detract from the "story"....

**tenngolfer** · May 2nd, 2012

My second earliest memory, at the age of three, is playing in the floor with toy cars while my mother ironed in front of me watching television. My mother became shocked, panicked, crying; and picked up a phone and dialed my grandmother to tell her the president had just been shot. I assume the traumatic actions of my mother is what embedded the memory. Of course that means I was born in 1960.
She was a huge JFK fan and raised me to believe that JFK was the greatest president ever. I don't think it was until my college years that I realized there were actually dissenting opinions on the subject.

**PrisonerNumber6** · May 2nd, 2012

've been wanting to post this for a while now, a brief real time slice of life with all the familiar faces, JFK, RFK, Jackie O, Nixon, and a pair of intrepid reporters known as Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.

Kids pay attention, there's no test or anything, this just looked to cool to pass up.

**tenngolfer** · May 2nd, 2012

Nifty, PN6!

**PrisonerNumber6** · May 3rd, 2012

Don't mention it. For me, one of the classic parts is when they show off their new "Computers". It has to be one of the most unintentionally funny moments in TV history. It's continued in part two where they show whole databanks geared toward counting votes. Each databank is practically it's own office desk. So that's computer's is it? They'll never catch on, mark my words.

Other than that, you got to admit this serves as a good visual reference for both newcomers to the novel and also to any potential feature makers out there.

**tmac61** · May 3rd, 2012

Cool video, amazing how far technology has come in 50 years.

**Sigmund** · May 4th, 2012

Hi!

Walter Cronkite, at the time the most respected and beloved newscaster reporting the death of JFK.

Walter Cronkite, and the nation....wept.

Peace.

**jchanic** · May 7th, 2012

I was in college at the time. I had just dropped my girl friend (who is now my wife) off at her class to take a test and went across the street to a local book store. I was just browsing the shelves when I heard what was happening over the radio they had playing in the store. I picked up my girl friend (who had heard about it just before she went into the classroom to take the test--imagine how that affected her!) and we headed over to her dorm, where they had a television in the lounge. I've never heard a group of college kids be so quiet!

I also remember some of our foreign exchange students barracading themselves in their rooms, sure that rioting would break out--that's what would happen in their countries.

John