Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011 marks the 48th anniversary of one of the most tragic events to take place on American soil -- the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy was elected in 1960 and was the youngest president to be elected at the time. He was the 35th U.S. President. Kennedy attended a private school called later, Choate and graduated from Harvard in 1940. He later served in World War II with the Navy. His term lasted three years until his assassination in 1963.
22nd November 1963, Kennedy was shot while riding in the presidential campaign convoy in downtown Dallas. He received a wound in the head by a gunman suspected of Lee Harvey Oswald. But before any conclusion was reached, Oswald was shot when he was transferred from a prison in the city to a county jail.
You heard 'Kennedy.' Then you heard 'assassination,' ” Bradlee recalls. Bradlee, then a reporter for Newsweek and a close friend of the young president, ran up 12 stories to his office in the National Press Building to watch the Newsweek ticker spit
The cross for decades, but the fascination of the nation and the collective mourning for the assassination of John F. Kennedy 's remains constant, even today, as we commemorate the 48th anniversary.
The inclination of President Barack Obama speaking to the strong performance led to comparisons with John F. Kennedy. On Sunday, the New York Magazine, Frank Rich wrote probably the strongest, however, that details the ending hate JFK. He argued that the early sixties contents circumstances eerily similar to those currently facing the Obama administration.
"What defines the Kennedy legacy today is less the fallen president's short, often admirable life than the particular strain of virulent hatred that helped bring him down. After JFK was killed, that hate went into only temporary hiding. It has been a growth industry ever since and has been flourishing in the Obama years. There are plenty of comparisons to be made between the two men, but the most telling is the vitriol that engulfed both their presidencies."
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