JFK: The day the nation will never forget
ANDERSON - The Rev. Ray Wright, Anderson, was working as a waiter at the Paxton Hotel in Omaha. Neb., 45 years ago today when he heard people talking that President Kennedy had been shot.
http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/local/local_story_326222302.html
JFK: Couple was married the day after
ANDERSON - Robert Glazebrooks and Sharon Brown needed to get a marriage license validated on Nov. 22, 1963 - one day before their planned wedding.
http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/local/local_story_326222055.html
JFK: 1960 courthouse visit drew thousands
ANDERSON - It was April 7, 1960, just after the West Virginia presidential primary, and an up-and-coming young senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, was campaigning in the Hoosier state.
http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/local/local_story_326221851.html
Remember that practically no one in their 40s or younger even remember Kennedy and they will never understand how the country felt about him. Unfortunately, it won't be long before the only way he is remembered is in a history book.
I will never forget JFK..He was a great president in my opinion and loved by many....
I curious, if he had lived, would he STILL be considered a GREAT president?..
He had a lot of personal issues going on, that in THIS day and time, would the media let this slip by?.........I also believe, he was much more of a conservative...and I really liked several things he stood for....
I'm just saying...did his untimely death, set him up for automatic greatness?...
Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 07, 2009, 10:11:42 AM
I curious, if he had lived, would he STILL be considered a GREAT president?..
He had a lot of personal issues going on, that in THIS day and time, would the media let this slip by?.........I also believe, he was much more of a conservative...and I really liked several things he stood for....
I'm just saying...did his untimely death, set him up for automatic greatness?...
"would he STILL be considered a GREAT president?."
Yes,I think he would have. He had great vision and he really turned education around.
And you are right about the media. But remember ... that was true for almost all presidents prior. The media used to understand that personal issues were just that ... personal.
How many people at the time knew that Roosevelt was wheelchair bound?
Quote from: Bo D on January 07, 2009, 11:27:23 AM
"would he STILL be considered a GREAT president?."
Yes,I think he would have. He had great vision and he really turned education around.
And you are right about the media. But remember ... that was true for almost all presidents prior. The media used to understand that personal issues were just that ... personal.
How many people at the time knew that Roosevelt was wheelchair bound?
I agree, I thought he was fantastic, especially for THAT period of time....but, I cant help but to think that, todays media, with the monstors of crushing the opponent, from BOTH parties, would have smeared him beyond belief, with the Monroe scandels and such...as far as that goes, I think the days of personal issues are long gone, and dirty politics is here to stay....
Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 07, 2009, 11:45:36 AM
I agree, I thought he was fantastic, especially for THAT period of time....but, I cant help but to think that, todays media, with the monstors of crushing the opponent, from BOTH parties, would have smeared him beyond belief, with the Monroe scandels and such...as far as that goes, I think the days of personal issues are long gone, and dirty politics is here to stay....
True. Sad, but true.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 07, 2009, 10:11:42 AM
I curious, if he had lived, would he STILL be considered a GREAT president?..
He had a lot of personal issues going on, that in THIS day and time, would the media let this slip by?.........I also believe, he was much more of a conservative...and I really liked several things he stood for....
I'm just saying...did his untimely death, set him up for automatic greatness?...
It certainly aided and abetted it. It is hard to trash someone who is dead, or at least it was then. And of course there were all the heart rending pictures of his children at the funeral. People overlooked his mistakes and even years later when all the details of his presidency came out it was glossed over. He was an ok president but I don't think he was a good or loved as people seem to remember now.
Anyone else see him on the east side of the courthouse square when he came to Anderson on the campaign trail?
Quote from: Bo D on January 07, 2009, 11:27:23 AM
"would he STILL be considered a GREAT president?."
Yes,I think he would have. He had great vision and he really turned education around.
And you are right about the media. But remember ... that was true for almost all presidents prior. The media used to understand that personal issues were just that ... personal.
How many people at the time knew that Roosevelt was wheelchair bound?
We could use some educational turnaround again, I say!
I respect JFK for two main reasons:
1) He stood up to Communist Russia when it was at the peak of its power (Cuban missle crisis),
2) He pushed the US into an accelerated "space race", which allowed us to be first to walk on the moon.
True about Roosevelt. He was rarely even photographed from the waist down, is what I heard as a child.
Contrast to today, when thousands of "citizens" at DU and KOS made/make fun of the way President Bush's head was shaped and his smile ("Chimpy McSmirk", etc). I disagreed with a lot of what President Bush did in office, but THAT kind of name calling is classless and pathetic, imo.
I was standing 10 or 12 feet from him when he spoke, there on that little "porch" on the east side of the old court house; they let us out early from South Side Jr. HS to go see him. Can't remember a thing he said- I was just a dumb 12 year old kid without a clue as to the import of that moment in time. I didn't support Obama, but I felt a twinge of hopefulness during his inauguration possibly similar to what JFK's "Camelot" may have evoked in Americans 48 years ago. Like him or not, he's our new exec; hope he can and will do what's best for our beleaguered country.
I don't think if JFK had lived, he would have been considered great. Bobby was the brains behind him. And, if he'd not been assassinated, he probably wouldn't have lived more than 4 more years with his Addison's disease. He got us through the Cuban Missile Crisis, but the Bay of Pigs was a disaster. I used to think alot of the Kennedys but now I sure don't. Both brothers sleeping with Marilyn Monroe and hundreds others, and Ted leaving the girl to die in his car. I think Bobby would have been a greater president, but he didn't get the chance.
Quote from: Gardengirl on December 30, 2008, 04:12:20 PM
Remember that practically no one in their 40s or younger even remember Kennedy and they will never understand how the country felt about him. Unfortunately, it won't be long before the only way he is remembered is in a history book.
That would be me. I wasn't born yet. :no: