Rather than focus on the sadness of that day, let's look back a little further to a more hopeful day, to one of the great and most memorable speeches in our great nation's history, JFK's inaugural address.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
"Civility is not a sign of weakness..."
It should also sober us all to reflect on the fact that forty-nine years ago today, while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, President Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet. This event happened almost two years before I was born.
Rather than focus on the sadness of that day, let's look back a little further to a more hopeful day, to one of the great and most memorable speeches in our great nation's history, JFK's inaugural address.
Rather than focus on the sadness of that day, let's look back a little further to a more hopeful day, to one of the great and most memorable speeches in our great nation's history, JFK's inaugural address.
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