56 Years Since JFK was Killed

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RIP JFK:( (No Politics, Please.)
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Teacher, I believe her name was Miss Weidenbaum? came in crying "He's dead. Dead. Dead as an Irish shillelagh."
 
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Former Daily News Photographer Dan Farrell with the photograph he took of John F. Kennedy Jr., saluting at the funeral of his father in 1963. (David Handschuh/New York Daily News)


"On Nov. 25, 1963, Mr. Farrell was on assignment in Washington for his newspaper, the New York Daily News, covering the funeral of President John F. Kennedy, who had been killed three days before in Dallas."

"After beginning his day at the U.S. Capitol, Mr. Farrell moved to a spot across from St. Matthew’s Cathedral in downtown Washington. He stood on a crowded flatbed truck alongside scores of other photographers, about 150 feet from the cathedral’s front door."

"Fifty years later, Mr. Farrell recalled the scene in an interview with the Daily News."


“It was the saddest thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life,” he said."

"When the mourners emerged from the cathedral, Mr. Farrell trained his Hasselblad camera on the Kennedy family. As the president’s coffin was placed on a horse-drawn caisson, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, leaned down and said something to her son. It happened to be his third birthday."

"Mr. Farrell was watching through a telephoto lens."

“She said, ‘John, salute,’ ” he recalled in 1999. “He didn’t respond at first. I took a deep breath. She said, ‘John-John, salute.’ ”

"The young boy, wearing a light blue jacket and short pants, stepped forward and raised his right hand to his brow. Mr. Farrell snapped just a single frame."
 
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I remember that day. I was sweeping the floor when it came on the news. I had to sit down I was so distraught. I still have the Daily News featuring the headline. May he R.I.P.
 
I was standing in line, waiting to get into school, after lunch. A kid said the president had just been shot. I promptly answered, as fitting for an eleven year old, "Bullshit!" The rest of that afternoon was so surreal, so very strange.
 
It was a very surreal day. As Gary O said above, it just stopped you in your tracks. People where I worked just picked up their stuff and went home; I don't remember anybody actually telling us to go home, but people just did. I went back down into the lobby of our building, where a TV was on with the news and watched a little while with the rest of the folks and then just went home. I remember it as sort of like sleepwalking through an alternate reality. The big question everybody was asking was how could this be happening here?
 
Well, swimming upstream here it appears but......IMO he & the entire Kennedy clan were crooks......[his] "crookery" just caught up with him? And we....were blessed with an even worse president.
 
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