60 years ago
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I too was at home and down a cold or flu. Pretty sure I was in grade 2 at the time. My grandmother was in my bedroom reading the previous day’s newspaper when the phone rang and my mother answered. It was my father calling from work. I recall her saying “No, oh No” several times before hanging up the phone. She then rushed into my room telling her mother, “President Kennedy has been assassinated!” I then remember grandmother dropping the newpaper with a groan and shaking her head. As for myself I just wanted to know what the word “assassinated” meant.
I learned a new word that day.
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Nice note.
George - do you remember where you were?
How about you, Jolly. You were a tyke but probably old enough to remember.
@jon-nyc said in 60 years ago:
George - do you remember where you were?
Sure.
I was in 7th grade, Mrs. Miers' class, I believe. I was seated on the left side of the classroom, aisle to my left. I was 3 seats from the back when the announcement came over the PA.
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@Copper said in 60 years ago:
Judge, Jury and Executioner, the taxpayers owe Mr. Ruby a great deal.
Yeah, sure. Mr. Ruby was only responsible for 60 years of conspiracy theories.
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I just learned his original last name was Rubenstein, both parents orthodox Jewish immigrants from Poland.
I wonder how distant a relative Arthur Rubenstein was?
@jon-nyc said in 60 years ago:
his original last name was Rubenstein
Jacob Leon Rubenstein born on or around March 25, 1911, in the Maxwell Street area of Chicago, the son of Joseph Rubenstein and Fannie Turek Rutkowski
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@jon-nyc said in 60 years ago:
Jesus you’d think they’d find a horse better suited to the task.
Before watching the video and commentary, I would have thought, "Yeah, but a horse has to horse."
No.
You're right. "Too wild to ride?" Why the hell is he in the most solemn ceremony of the 2nd half of the 20th century?
This is an animal that is not trained, or at worst not trainable. There must be hundreds of black horses within 15 miles of DC that would have been better behaved.
I'm not blaming the horse - he's being himself.
Find a horse that could be himself and not be a spectacle.
ETA: And the comments are...stupid.
This breaks my heart. The horse knew what was happening.
Black Jack was the perfect horse for this funeral. He was big, beautiful, and spirited........just as the best of us in this Nation have always been. A quieter horse would never have been remembered.....Black Jack left his mark on history.
