62 years ago today
Photo by Dan Farrell, Daily News
The funeral took place on John John's 3rd birthday.
His salute is the most memorable image of the day.
Caroline turned 6 years old two days later.
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JFK was shot 62 years ago today
ReplyDelete“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days, nor in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration. Nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.” ~ JFK
The story behind John John's salute
ReplyDeleteI simply can't take in the magnitude of the grief Jackie must have been experiencing. She had already had a miscarriage in 1955, a premature stillborn daughter, Arabella, in 1956, and their premature son, Patrick, lived only 2 days and had died just that August. John, Jr. was also a premie, but survived. Caroline was their only full term baby. Having just come through the death of Patrick, and just as her two surviving children were to have birthdays, her husband, the President of the United States, sitting beside her, was shot, collapsed in her arms and died a half hour later. It's all so impossibly harsh. Yet she showed such grace.
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