It’s 9:30 AM, and I’m already sick & tired of hearing about the anniversery of Kennedy’s assassination. Maybe it would be different if I was old enough to remember it, but I’m not; there has never been a point in my life when he wasn’t dead.
Well, 50 years is a pretty big deal and it’s of more than passing interest to me, but… yeah.
I have been awake for 4 hours and working for 3 hours and this thread is the first reference to JFK’s death that I have encountered. Where are you hearing about JFK excessively?
Not really. The fifty year anniversary only comes once, and this is probably one of the last big anniversaries of the assassination that a critical mass of people who experienced it are still alive to talk about it. It’ll be done tomorrow.
I assume you haven’t watched the news, turned on the radio, or surfed to any news websites yet. If you done any of these things, you’d have heard about it. And heard about it. and heard about it.
Correct about the TV and radio. I have looked at my usual web news source a few times. There’s a link at the top for “complete JFK anniversary coverage”, but I haven’t clicked it. I guess my efforts to “choose my news” are working. 
(My emphasis)
Um, yeah. That’s the main thing. The magnitude of the impact of that event on the country at that time is impossible to convey.
I imagine in 2051 young people will be saying, “I’m sick of hearing about the 50th anniversary of 9/11. Maybe it would be different if I was old enough to remember it…”
You can always focus on the fifty year anniversary of the deaths of C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley if that makes you feel better.
Oh, I was alive when it happened but I totally agree; really it’s been in the “news” way too much for most of the 50 years since it happened. It’s not just the 50th anniversary; there has been no time since it happened that people have not been making money off the tragedy of it. I agree it was tragic and changed things but come on; most of this stuff is just making money, plain and simple.
Happy Lendervedder:
Yeah, but the media make a big deal of the Kennedy assassination anniversary every year. The fact that this year it’s the 50th just means they make a very very very big deal of it instead of the usual very very big deal.
I’ve been sick of the media attention that 60’s icons get for a long time.
Either I have a high tolerance or simply have been fortunate enough to somehow have avoided being inundated yet. So far what I’ve seen has been relatively new and interesting so I’m not at my saturation point. Interviews with Mrs. J.D. Tripett where she shared the letter Jackie wrote shortly after the murders, Marina Oswald interviews over the years and how she’s changed into a bit of a conspiracy theorist, some insight from Dr. Red Duke who was in the Parkland ER at the time, etc.
Overall I can see how a rehash of the story would get old but thankfully at least some sources provide interesting and compelling content as well.
We should all watch the Zapruder film and eat popcorn! I even have a link to the stabilized version. Hurrah!!! We went 50 years of the womanizer being dead, shall we go 50 more?
I agree, too. There’s multiple ages of kids and young adults and even middle-aged adults (I’m only a couple of years away from 40!) that have no recollection or connection to the 60s whatsoever. There’s a lot more recent icons to focus on.
You are cynical for one so young. 
Sad. Not every single thing is about making money. Watching the Kennedy stuff took me back to that time and I felt that anxiety again. I didn’t make any money off that or pay anyone.
I am playing JFK Reloaded in honor of the anniversary.
No, you didn’t make any money off it or pay anyone but trust me, the people who made the film or whatever did.
But thanks for “one so young”; as I spent yesterday talking to a dr. about when (not if) I am going to need a new knee, I don’t feel all that young!
I’m sick of the saturation coverage, but that’s the way I feel when there’s any big news story. At least this one has a time limit.
There should have been a Google Doodle for today.
Not quite. We still have the 50th anniversary of the funeral, on Monday.
But yeah, then it will be over. Then we can get on with the 200th anniversaries of the sack of Washington, the creation of the Star Spangled Banner, and the Battle of Waterloo, and the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the outbreak of World War I.
An update: My local daily newspaper is a broadsheet, 10 pages today. The front page is JFK stuff except for the bottom 2 inches, and those stories take up a third of page 3 as well. The op-ed page is 2/3 JFK. Since there are 2 pages of sports, a page each for comics, obituaries and classifieds, I’d say that JFK dominates the news/opinion part of the paper. That seems excessive for a paper that focuses mostly on local news.