What do you remember about Friday 22 November 1963

[10 Turtle Day]

40. I was in class in 2nd grade

Another teacher came to our class and whispered the news to our teacher. We could tell by their faces that something was very wrong. Our teacher told us the news with tears streaming down her face, stammering to get out the words. I don’t remember if school was let out for the day but when I got home my mom was very upset and her face and eyes were red and swollen from crying. She had the TV on and we watched the news in silence.

My dad was a Marine and he worked with a couple guys who had been in the same outfit as Oswald. They told my dad that Oswald was too stupid to pull it off by himself. My dad maintained that Oswald was a patsy the rest of his life.

I often think of how much better our country would be if JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. had lived to fulfill their legacies. Those assassinations set us back decades and changed the trajectory of our nation. Now we’re overrun by MAGAts. Makes me weep like I did in 1963.