Simviation Forum - November 22, 1963

Aug 24^th, 2008 at 10:39pm

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If the date sounds familiar it is the day that John Kennedy died.

Did you know it was also the day that Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis died?

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Reply #1 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 5:34am

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Like most people who were around at the time it's one of those days I shall never forget.

Not sure why you posted this today though.

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Reply #2 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:34am

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I ran across it recently and didn't think I'd remember it in November.

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Reply #3 - Aug 25^th, 2008 at 9:35am

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Ah, fairy snuff. Wink

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Reply #4 - Aug 27^th, 2008 at 3:24am

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Another reminder of my somber month of birth: colder temperatures, barren trees, threats of snow, murdered turkeys (the once-naturally-feathered variety) and the few songs thereof (The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald [Gordon Lightfoot], as well as an old one @ the last two island swans, One Last Cold Kiss [sung by Mountain ?])...

Mentioning presidents, to shift the scenery, two signers of the Declaration of Indepedence also shared in becoming U.S. presidents; relative to the signing, for what else did they have a timely share?

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Reply #5 - Aug 27^th, 2008 at 10:00am

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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

James Monroe, 5th president of the US but not a signer of the Declaration of Independence, died on July 4, 1831.

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Reply #6 - Aug 28^th, 2008 at 5:21pm

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If ever time stood still, it was on that day.

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Reply #7 - Sep 17^th, 2008 at 11:46am

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I remember watching the funeral proceedings on TV. I was not yet six. I had no idea what the JFK assassination would portend for the future of the country and the world. I doubt anybody else did, either...

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Reply #8 - Nov 22^nd, 2008 at 8:33am

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45 years ago today. An event to this day unfathomable and controversial. I was in 10th grade at the time.

Ironically, it was the advent of the Beatles, of all things, starting in very early 1964, that kind of brightened up America for a bit during the cold, dismal days following 11.22.63. We needed something good, they provided it.

We all know the history of the rest of the '60's. Not the best of times.

PBS has been running the American Experience series on the Presidents. Excellent, informative, and very objective.

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Reply #9 - Nov 23^rd, 2009 at 8:35pm

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I don't recall seeing/hearing/reading a news story about it this year.

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Reply #10 - Nov 23^rd, 2009 at 11:40pm

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