Local voices: The JFK assassination: A reporter’s perspective
The world has turned over many times since that fateful day in Dallas 50 years ago when President Kennedy was killed. Anyone who was old enough to understand what happened knows exactly where they were and what they were doing when they first heard the president was dead.
Our view: JFK’s unfulfilled destiny
In the course of U.S. History, there have been 20 assassination plots against the President of the United States and four assassinations — Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865), James Garfield (shot July 2, 1881, died Sept. 19, 1881), William McKinley (shot Sept. 6, 1901, died Sept. 14 , 1901) and John F. Kennedy (Nov. 22, 1963).
The assassination of John F. Kennedy: Nov. 22, 1963 is a moment frozen in time for many
The afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963 wasn’t all that different from any other day in Columbus.
Nancy Johnson, a stay-at-home mom and part-time student at Mississippi State College for Women (now MUW) had one eye on her ironing, the other on her favorite soap opera, “As The World Turns.”
Commentary: Clint Hill’s leap into history
We use the term “dramatic irony” in plays when the audience learns from one character something that another character does not know, usually to his detriment. In the field of history, the reader always knows more than the people he’s reading about. He knows how the whole thing turns out — something the historical figures cannot know.
For baby boomers, JFK death ripples still
We cannot get past it, we Americans. Not a half century later. Maybe not even ever. The president with the easy grin in whom so
RFK children speak about assassination
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasn’t solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a “shoddy piece of craftsmanship.”
Rob Hardy: Voodoo History
It may well have happened to you.