I fully agree with this. I was just thinking that I would rather hear JFK stuff than the endless Princess Di and endless Michael Jackson stuff. Those were just brutal.
A day after: no. I’m from Boston, where the Globe’s front page for 11/22 was the front page from 11/23/63. Aside from that, it was business as usual. It’s a bigger deal for some some of us than others. FWIW: Lincoln’s 50th anniversary was 1915! Next year will mark the centenniel of the First World War.
Aside from the JFK assassination, which was a major national trauma, I enjoy such things. Anniversaries of historical events, I mean. The massiveness of the impact of Kennedy’s death is nearly impossible to communicate to those before too late to remember or have a consciousness of the time. For most of us who do remember, JFK’s assassination is what kicked off what we broadly define as “the Sixties”.
As I remember it, JFK’s assassination, comparable as a news story alone, to the 9/11 attacks, hit much, much harder long term. For most of us, things were never the same after that. Sentimentality? Maybe, but that’s hiw a lot of people who were around back then feel even today.
Ok I’m a recent transplant to the DFW area and have gone to Dealey plaza 4 times in these last two years to walk around and imagine that day. It just feels more like the city is trying so hard to get past that incident and there isn’t enough to have people let it go other than as time passes, maybe interest and conspiracies will lessen…however I must add…
THEY REMOVED THE X’S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET THAT MARK EACH POINT WHERE HE WAS SHOT!!
Very disappointed about that macabre detail being removed…
You think it’s bad now, you should have been there then. For four straight days, all TV and radio did nothing but broadcast the aftermath of the assassination and the the upcoming funeral. There were not even any commercials. Luckily TV didn’t broadcast 24 hours then (at least not in Orlando, where I was). I don’t remember the newspapers, but I’m sure they were the same as the TV/radio.
Bob
i found the nova program on the ballistics interesting.
pres. kennedy’s death was the first where people could turn on a television, see and hear what was happening as it happened. roosevelt’s death would have been radio, newspaper, and movie news.
looking at the coverage from today’s world is very interesting. no gloves on the policemen handling evidence, ambulances that were basically station wagons, the press being so close to the police, the scene. then the death of oswald by ruby. so very, very different from today.
with all the shows having “where were you” reports, i realized that i don’t know how my parents heard the news, or other members of my family.
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No, because this board is pretty much the only place I hear about it. I watch TV online, and don’t like listening to radio except if it’s a radio drama–and those mostly don’t exist anymore.
Not a single person on Facebook, for example, seems to be concerned about it. And I do have people on there that are old enough to have dealt with it when it happened. I also have not seen it mentioned in my online news feeds, although, in fairness, I don’t check all that often.
BTW, I don’t remember hearing much about it this time of year in years past, either. I’m sure at some point I knew what day it happened on, but if you’d have asked me sometime this year before the first mention here, I probably wouldn’t have realized it happened around Thanksgiving time.
Thanksgiving stuff just takes up too much of my mental energy to think about much else.
Second notice. CSPAN is airing/aired 6 hours NBCs coverage of the funeral procession, etc., on Thanksgiving Day, 1 to 7 p.m.
I remember it and I’ve been tired of the replay/relive/re-ponder 9/11 annual rites for a while now.