Friday, November 22, 2013

He beckons us still

PUBLISHED: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013 
Watertown  Daily Times
Five decades after the tragedy, it’s still unfathomable.
How could the leader of the free world be struck down by one individual? What would drive the assassin to commit such an atrocity? Will we ever fully comprehend what took place in Dallas on this day in 1963?
John F. Kennedy had brought so much promise into the White House when he assumed the presidency in January 1961. He embodied the youthful enthusiasm that would define much of that decade, benefitted significantly by the glamour that he and his wife, Jacqueline, projected. Continue...

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