Another November Anniversary
“John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally’s wife Nellie when he was fatally shot….
The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where President Kennedy was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after the shooting…” —–Wikipedia
I was a senior in high school sitting in class when the news of the shooting came over the school’s PA system…
In that moment the trajectory of our lives, and that of the lives of every other American, was altered.
By the time I graduated from Howard University in June of 1968, JFK, RFK, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King had all been assassinated by gunfire…
We now live in a time when the President of the United States openly advocates gun violence as a means to settle political differences:
It’s another November during a time that has certainly been influenced by the events of a November long ago.
The Congressional inquiry initiated this month will almost certainly result in his impeachment…
