The Kennedy Assassination

I interviewed my auntie Lena Mae West about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lena Mae was only fifteen when the last President was assassinated. That day and the days following were days folks back then couldn’t forget and people today are learning about.

Overtime I’ve learned stories about the famous day in 1963 and I think that was a terrible and horrible way to die. In front of the Governor of Texas and his wife, his very on wife Jackie Kennedy, America and the world around us. It’s a mystery because we have no facts or motive about why he was shot or who shot him. Police have found a person who they believe might have had something to do with it, but Lee Harvey Oswald died before we had answers. Many think Vice President Lyndon Johnson had something to do with it because Kennedy was going to drop Johnson of the Campaign

I asked Ms. McGill about the painful memories of that day. “I remember about that day as if it had happen yesterday. I was in school when the new broke out and everybody from the teacher to the students felt bad, some cried, while the rest mourned. Many worried about the fate of the country and how we will continue running the country. Many worried about the family of the victim: his two small kids who will never hear their fathers vice again and his wife who held him for the last time in his life in the backseat of the Lincoln Continental if which he was shot. I went on to ask about the infamous clips of Jacqueline Kennedy exiting the Presidential plane Air Force One after the casket carrying the body of the slain President. “Everybody knew her pain. We felt almost the same way she did at that moment in time. We don’t just lose a President, but a man who had big goal and even better dreams of making America something the world can’t mess with it. He was a person who tried to turn America around and bring peace to everyone. He was the man who had Marylin Moore sing at his birthday party in a skin tight dress. I asked about John F. Kennedy, not the president but what knew she knew of him as a person, not a president. The president went to Texas to Campaign for his up-coming election and he wanted to get out and personal with the people. He and his wife Jackie along with the Governor of Texas John B. Connally and his wife were riding all the streets of Dallas when shots rang out. Kennedy grabbed his neck as if coughing and finally fell over in his wife’s lap. A terrible way to die.

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