I was only two, so I dont remember the day, but there were a lot - TopicsExpress

Rob Ryan

I was only two, so I dont remember the day, but there were a lot of remembrances on the radio this morning. The journalist in the motorcade. The guy who came home from school to find his mother weeping inconsolably. I was most startled by the woman who was in the third grade in Georgia on this day 50 years ago--5 months after George Wallace blocked the doorways of the University of Alabama and Kennedy made his famous civil rights address to the nation. This woman said that her school announced the assassination over the school loudspeaker and, to her young astonishment, her classmates cheered--reflecting, no doubt, the attitudes of their parents toward the president and, maybe, toward his push for civil rights legislation. Chilling. “This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can’t have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way that they are going to get their rights is to go in the street and demonstrate. I think we owe them and we owe ourselves a better country than that.” --JF Kennedy, June 11, 1963

Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:23:38 +0000

I was only two, so I dont remember the day, but there were a lot - TopicsExpress

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