22.11.20


November 22, 1963

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas

he was a boyhe had sat at his grandmothers knee while aunts and uncles collected at her home to watch Senator Kennedy debate Vice-President Nixon in a Chicago studio not far away from them

he walked home from school for lunch but there was no lunch on the kitchen table  his mother was vacuum-cleaning  she was crying

without eating he returned to school and watched on a television wheeled into his classroom as a shaken Walter Cronkite announced President Kennedy died at 1PM Central Standard Time


not something he would ever forget
1606,  Sunday,  22  11. 20

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