General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: John Fitzgerald Kennedy 11-22-1963 Where Were You? [View all]calimary
(81,240 posts)I was glued to that TV all weekend, watching the coverage. David Brinkley, John Chancellor, Frank McGee, Sander Vanocur. Ill never forget that. Sitting on the floor in the family room in front of the TV. All weekend, keeping that vigil.
Those drums. And that single horse with no rider, just the riders boots, backwards, in the stirrups. And that long shot from the bridge to the cemetery in Arlington watching the funeral procession approach from the Capitol.
Indelible memories. That truly was a turning point in our country, as was pointed out upthread. We were somehow sadder, more cynical, not as hopeful as we had been when that decade began - and we had a President to whom I could personally relate. Who had kids only a few years younger than I was, and the kids parents were around my parents age, instead of old like my grandparents.