50 years ago tonight, JFK was elected. Johnny, we hardly knew ye

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He would never have been a DU favorite, but I was 12 when he was struck down, and I miss him to this day.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Recommending. 50 years ago... wow...

x(

[Oceansaway]

2. i feel old.....nt

[Better Today]

3. Then why disrespect his chosen nickname of Jack for Johnny

which I've never heard attributed to him.

[11 Bravo]

6. Ken O'Donnell, one of Jack (happy?) Kennedy's top aides and closest friends wrote ...

a biography of the late President. He titled it "Johnny, we hardly knew ye". If you had a closer relationship to JFK than Ken O'Donnell, then good for you. If you did not, then please take your oh-so-eager-to-find-offense head, and shove it up your ass.

[Better Today]

11. Wow, you don't like answering questions, huh? Thank you for the info,

I'm happy to learn something new even if it's from someone as intolerant of questions as yourself.

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12. Surely you can understand that your post was more in the nature of an accusation ...

than an actual question. Without knowing what you were talking about, you attacked me for supposedly "disrespecting" one of my heroes. If I over-reacted, I apologize. If your post was ill-considered, you might think about doing the same.

[Better Today]

13. Your apology is accepted and may I suggest you take your own advice.

Assuming a intentions to an ill-considered response so you can throw a nasty remark or two seems more ill-considered than my addition of one word that you over-reacted to.

[11 Bravo]

15. So your uninformed response to my OP is fine, but my indignation is somehow rude?

Got it. And thanks for playing. But FYI, I didn't "assume" a fucking thing. You, in your now admitted ignorance of history, wrongly accused me of disrespecting JFK.
I will stand by my apology; but if you can't summon up the intellectual honesty to offer one of your own, well, that's your issue, not mine.

[laughingliberal]

4. I was 8 and I loved him as did my parents who were civil rights activists in Memphis.

How far we've fallen.

:cry:

[alanquatermass]

7. Agreed! JFK was the gold standard for Liberal thought and --

-- action.

He seemed to have the right take on everything: War. Peace. Taxation. Commumism. Everything.

And who among us wouldn't relish the idea of seeing JFK's brand of Liberalism being applied to America in these troubled times?

If only...

[XOKCowboy]

5. I was 6 and happily nonpolitical...

I was more into my Schwinn bicycle. I do remember when he died though. I was in Miss Howards class and was struck by her reaction. She broke down crying! I think that sparked something in me that JFK must have been an amazing person to make my teacher cry.

[flor-de-jasmim]

8. I was 7... I remember watching the JFK-Nixon debate on a neighbor's TV.

I also remember that a bit later a book came out called something like "Letters to President Kennedy." I may even have owned it at one point.

[whathehell]

9. I was thirteen..

and I miss him too.

[malaise]

10. Then you'll love this link

http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/51881

http://www.life.com/image/ugc1141201/in-gallery/51881/jfk-unpublished-never-seen-photos

[bdamomma]

14. I miss him too all of them really

kinda wonder how things would have turned out if John and Bobby were still alive.

[Octafish]

16. 1,036 Days

President John F. Kennedy served for less than three years. In that time:

Kennedy kept the peace every time most everyone else in government yelled for nuclear war.

Kennedy got the nation moving forward on civil rights, integrating colleges as well as the secret service and FBI.

Kennedy got the nation moving toward the moon, establishing that free people can do what had been considered impossible.