October 7, 2025

1 thought on “History Notes Special: The Day America Died

  1. I was alive on the day JFK died, and to this day, I still remember that day quite well, as well as the days preceding that fatal day, as the trip to Texas by Kennedy had been a hot topic of conversation where I was attending high school at the time.

    When the news that Kennedy had been shot came over the school intercom, I was a junior in high school, and I was sitting in a study hall in the school cafeteria, and on hearing the news, a friend of mine and I looked at each other and pretty much simultaneously said, “wow, they did it,” because to be truthful, all of us were expecting it to happen, which history has been subsequently scrubbed and altered, for the “good of the nation.”

    Why did we expect Kennedy to be killed in Texas?

    Because it was thought, whether totally true or not, that Kennedy was hated and despised by the people of Texas, probably for many reasons.

    As we understood it before he went to Texas, his reason for going was to demonstrate to the people of America who didn’t live in Texas that there was NO state in the Union that an American president could not go, and the reason for the open car was to demonstrate to the people of America, including the Texans, that JFK was not a craven coward, for which he had my admiration, anyway.

    That is what I remember, but if one reads subsequent history, all of that has been changed, especially with regard to the feelings of the people of Texas towards Kennedy, and I still recall the discussions after JFK was killed about how that history was going to be changed, lest the people of Texas be reviled forever as the killers of an American president, for the “good of the nation.”

    Such it was as I remember it to this day.

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