# Happy Assassination Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516 "2013-11-22T14:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/21 "2013-11-22T19:22:10Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > 'zakly what I was thinking on the way to work this morning. No news station can shut up about it and there is nothing new under the sun in years. > > 50 years later and he’s still dead, folks. Let JFK go already. He wasn’t that fucking special. Don’t you understand? He slumbers still, but only because of society’s shared belief. Should people forget, or should they learn he is _un_dead- Oh crap. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/22 "2013-11-22T19:56:21Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Don’t you understand? He slumbers still, but only because of society’s shared belief. Should people forget, or should they learn he is _un_dead- Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Kennedy R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/23 "2013-11-22T19:58:11Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Don’t you understand? He slumbers still, but only because of society’s shared belief. Should people forget, or should they learn he is _un_dead- > > Oh crap. Is this like Camelot again, with Jack being the Once and Future President? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/24 "2013-11-22T22:41:39Z")
Too soon. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/25 "2013-11-22T22:49:05Z")
It’s minorly annoying, I’ll agree, but 50 years is sort of an understandable time for such things, due to how insane we humans are about certain numbers. So long as they don’t make a big deal of the 51st anniversary, I’m a’ight. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/26 "2013-11-23T01:08:51Z")
Now perhaps we can get some TV documentaries of how Kennedy _wasn’t_ the absolute perfect president, and how his decisions were not always the best ones. I have never enjoyed the whitewashing and putting on pedestals of public figures when they are dead. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/27 "2013-11-23T04:21:06Z")
I don’t have any issue with commemorating the assassination. But it’s been a week of talk about it. Too much. There are other things happening in the world. Those things just might matter. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/28 "2013-11-23T08:49:56Z")
Two reasons: 1. Conspiracy theories. 2. It’s like a funeral; it’s more for the living than for the dead. This was a traumatizing event for multiple generations, and so it’s still of intense interest to those who lived through it. So yes, this is yet another thing you can blame on the Baby Boomers. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/29 "2013-11-23T12:29:25Z")
I wish this thread would drop off the front page of the forum. Every time I see it, I think it’s an announcement of my fate today. It’s very disconcerting. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/30 "2013-11-23T12:42:22Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Happy Assassination Day, everybody! 🙂 The difference between Thanksgiving and Assassination Day, is that on Thanksgiving Mom _doesn’t_ poison the turkey. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/31 "2013-11-23T13:06:10Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I didn’t. But there have been 50 years of reruns. I’m a fan of history. When I was younger, I watched the documentaries. But we’ve been presented the same information year after year. Data received and stored. Call me when something new comes up. Actually, the explanation of the ‘magic bullet’ – that the seat configuration was such that the bullet didn’t have to change trajectory to hit Connelly – was interesting. But that was years ago. So, leave it to those of us who stood agap with tears in our eyes for days. In the years since, we’ve been told about his feet of clay, but then, that day, the world stopped, held it’s breath, then cried. I was 16 and in Civics class. When I see the news footage, It all comes rushing back, just like it does every 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516/32 "2013-11-23T15:30:42Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > President Kennedy is _still_ dead! [I thought it was Franco who was still dead.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=butZyxI-PRs) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-assassination-day/674516.md?page=1)