The Murder of JFK 1963

2025-11-22

I was in the fourth grade at Aragona Elementary School, Virginia Beach, VA. Mrs Munyon's class. Abruptly late in the morning the radio began playing over the intercom. News of The political murder of John F Kennedy, the 35th US president (1961–63). He was shot and killed after being struck in the neck and head in Dallas, Texas while riding in an open car along Dealey Plaza.

Reports of his motorcade in Dallas, Texas going to Parkland Memorial Hospital were announced. Much later in my lifetime I learned that the man was actually DOA and there was no manner of heroics which could have saved him from the devastaing head shots he sustained. He was pronounced officially at 1 pm. Texas Governor John Connally was in the same car and was seriously wounded. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One later that day at 2:38 pm.

Frame from Zapruder film of Kennedy Assassination

One Lee Harvey Oswald who was a former employee of the Texas School Book Depository from where the shots were said to be taken was arrested by police shortly after the shooting. He was subsequently murdered by Jack Ruby who was a terminal cancer patient and the plot did nothing but thicken and stagnate.

The investigation and forensic evidence were followed by the so-called "Warren Commission" which like so much else in government had the appearance of a total farce.

I am not a democrat but I feel that John F Kennedy was mistreated as President of the United States and that all things could have been handled differently and better than they were because too many had too much to hide.

I feel at a personal level that the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963) was the official end of my innocence as a child. Watching my mother cry over the President's death had a profound effect on how I felt about many things which linger to this day.

Boo!