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“And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD Is My Banner,”<\/strong><\/span>
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photo from:<\/span>\u00a0http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/john-f-kennedy\/photos#john-f-kennedy<\/a><\/h6>\n

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IN MEMORIAM<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

November 22, 1963<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
[A video of President Kennedy’s funeral appears later on this page.\u00a0 The following excerpt is from the Arlington National Cemetery official website, linked below.]<\/span><\/h6>\n

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Gravesite<\/span><\/h1>\n
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The Eternal Flame over the grave of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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John F. Kennedy made his first formal visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1961, to place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. At the conclusion of the ceremony President Kennedy spoke to more than 5,000 people gathered in the Memorial Amphitheater.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

President Kennedy’s address began; “We meet in quiet commemoration of a historic day of peace. In an age that threatens the survival of freedom, we join together to honor those who made our freedom possible. … It is a tragic fact, that war still more destructive and still sanguinary followed [World War II]; that man’s capacity to devise new ways of killing his fellow men have far outstripped his capacity to live in peace with his fellow man.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Eleven days prior to Kennedy’s assassination he returned to Arlington for the 1963 Armistice Day services. This time he did not address the crowd in the amphitheater.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On Nov. 22, 1963, while on a campaign trip to Dallas, President Kennedy was shot and killed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There are only two U.S. presidents buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The other is William Howard Taft, who died in 1930.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Though Kennedy is buried at Arlington, at the time of his death, many believed that he would be buried in Brookline, Mass. Woodrow Wilson was the only other president besides Taft who had been buried outside of his native state and in the National Capital Region. President Wilson is buried at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. . . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Read more at:<\/strong>
\n<\/span>http:\/\/www.arlingtoncemetery.mil\/visitorinformation\/monumentmemorials\/jfk.aspx<\/a>
\nand, for an impressive tribute to President Kennedy, go to:<\/strong><\/span> http:\/\/www.arlingtoncemetery.net\/jfk.htm<\/a><\/h6>\n

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I do remember where I was when I heard President Kennedy had been shot.\u00a0 I was in my high school Earth Science class.\u00a0 I also remember seeing through the classroom window, Eagle Scout, Winslow Golly, Jr., who <\/strong><\/span>upon hearing the news, <\/strong><\/span>immediately <\/strong><\/span>left his classroom and went to the flagpole to lower our American Flag to half-staff.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today’s broadcast media fare is replete with the history surrounding President Kennedy’s tenure in office at the helm of the United States of America, a servant of We the People, as it should be on the 50th Anniversary of that Dark and Evil Day in Dallas.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, 35th president of our nation, moved me deeply.\u00a0 It seemed surreal, like it couldn’t be true, but it was. . . .\u00a0 My political alignment was meaningless in the reality that the president of my nation under God<\/em>, had been brutally slain!\u00a0 I mourned with my classmates, family, and friends, and with my fellow-Americans.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our Girl Scout Troop, led by my mother, Sylvia Courtney, had plans for a weekend trip to Camp Maripai Girl Scout Camp; we were to leave our schools early ahead of the Friday traffic.\u00a0 My mother wondered if she should cancel the trip because of the earth-shattering news, conflicting details of which were reported on radio and TV.\u00a0 Consulting with parents, they all concluded that President Kennedy would not have wanted schoolgirls to cancel their trip.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We went, and we were completely cut-off from the rest of the world and the news until Sunday evening.\u00a0 It was strange knowing what had happened, how important it was, and be miles from home and communications without knowing what was happening as our nation mourned with us.\u00a0 We held a solemn service for the president with the first raising of the flag, and remembered him at each raising and retiring of it during our stay.
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Our private news blackout was not mirrored in the rest of the country:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On November 22, 1963, at 12:40 p.m. CST — just 10 minutes after President Kennedy was shot — CBS broadcast the first nationwide TV news bulletin on the shooting. After that, all three television networks — CBS, NBC, and ABC — interrupted their regular programming to cover the assassination for four straight days. The JFK assassination was the longest uninterrupted news event on television until the coverage of the September 11 attacks in 2001.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

From:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/14\/us\/jfk-assassination-5-things\/index.html?iid=article_sidebar<\/a>
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During the trip back home, we heard of <\/strong><\/span>Jack Ruby’s<\/a> murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of the president, who was actually being held only for the murder of 39-year-old <\/strong><\/span>Officer J. D. Tippit<\/a>; committed <\/strong><\/span>after Kennedy’s assassination, <\/strong><\/span>allegedly by Oswald as he left the Schoolbook Depository.\u00a0 There were so many details being reported, it was hard to catch-up, and then to keep-up, with the news.\u00a0 It still didn’t seem quite real.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I remember the funeral.\u00a0 As I watched the following video today, the emotions rose once again.\u00a0 I still <\/strong><\/span>will <\/strong><\/span>never forget tiny John-John’s F<\/strong><\/span>arewell Salute offered <\/strong><\/span>on his third birthday, as his father’s body was carried away before him and his sister, 6-year-old Caroline.
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