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22-NOV-2005 Robin Reid

November 22: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Rancho Bernardo, CA

On this date in 1963 the world and my life changed dramatically. President Kennedy was gunned down in the streets of Dallas. The Nation and the World mourned for years.

I was studying Law at that time at the University of Colorado. The trauma caused me to rethink my life goals leading to changing my major and to ultimately becoming a College Student Personnel Dean. There I devoted my work to helping young people to be all they could be.

My move to California in 1974 into the world of government and business was an extension of that desire to help managers and leaders. I often think about JFK as a model. His charm, wit, and humanism graced us all as he touched us with his brilliance and style. Rest In Peace Mister President. Thank you for being you!


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Guest 29-Nov-2005 07:49
Amen, and beautifully done.
Guest 29-Nov-2005 00:37
thank you for your words, I didn't realize the date.
steve mcsweeny25-Nov-2005 14:44
Beautiful tribute with the perfect shot. Vote!
Guest 25-Nov-2005 14:09
Wonderful tribute for former President JFK.
Beautiful shot too of this peace-looking candle. :)
Larry Ahern23-Nov-2005 10:22
A truely great man he was. My father was the chief of staff of the chairman of the house ways and means commity at the time. I only saw him cry twice ... once on that day and again a few months before he died himself.
snootydog23-Nov-2005 04:22
Okay, well crystal just depressed me terribly. Her father being younger than I was at the time. Geez... am I old? I remember that they said they were going to show the shooting in reverse and I was eager to watch the bullet fly out of his head, but alas my father wouldn't let me near the telly and I never got to see it. Funny the things that stand out in your memory as being important. I was 7.
coaster23-Nov-2005 04:22
Thanks for this fine tribute, Robin.
Manfred Bachmann23-Nov-2005 03:24
Great tribute, i was 2 years old and i can´t remember. Excellent work Robin!
Gayle P. Clement23-Nov-2005 02:50
I think we'll always remember where we were. My teacher rushed to get the school's only television and all of the teachers crowded into our classroom, all crying.
Elaine (etfitz)23-Nov-2005 02:25
Very nice tribute!
joanteno22-Nov-2005 23:39
My earliest memories - just five years old. John Waine spoke the truth - we desperately need a John Kennedy!
Guest 22-Nov-2005 22:32
I was 7 years old, in the second grade, at Wallace Elementary in Dallas, Texas. The news came over the intercom. Gary is right. The world changed on that day.

Nice work, Robin.
Gimme a call when you get to town. Rachel and I are just planning on finishing up the fence and spending the day together. I'm gonna take the day off on Friday too.
JW22-Nov-2005 22:05
How we need a JFK now! Thanks for the memories everyone.
Karen Leaf22-Nov-2005 21:56
Interesting Robin, the day almost got by me.
We lived in Washington DC--I was 9 years old. When the announcement came over the school speakers we were all sent home; really being too young to completely understand we were just excited to be let out early. The next 3 days were amazing! Helicopters over our house all hours of the day, watching the events on a small grainy b/w TV. We got dressed up in our best Church clothes, my sister and I in our red wool coats and we stood on PA Ave to watch the motorcade, my Dad holding us on his shoulders to see over the crowd. Mom and Dad decided with 3 young kids the 14? hour wait to get to the Capitol was too much so we went home to watch the coverage on the TV. Since most of our male neighbors (and my Dad) were in the forgein or domestic intelligence communities we didn't see much of them for a while. The family was so stoic, so 'Yankee' in their bearing. One of those times in history that clearly deliminates one era from another.
Thanks for the reminder.
laine8222-Nov-2005 21:00
I was getting ready to go to school when it was announced on the morning news here in Aus. One of those days when you always remember what you were doing when you heard he had died & the sadness that continued.
Guest 22-Nov-2005 19:26
nice tribute and memory. my FATHER was only 3 years old :-P sooooo i really dont know much about it at all unfortunately :(
Gary Winters22-Nov-2005 19:02
I was in about the eigth grade or so. We were all sent home, and I spent the next several days glued to our black and white TV, mourning the loss. As far as I'm concerned, this was the most significant assassination in the modern world. Everything changed; we lost our innosense, and it set into motion a chain of events from which we are still reeling. JFK wasn't perfect -- but I admired him and am still saddened by the loss. I wonder what the world would have become, had he (and MLK, and RFK, and all the others) lived?
Zak22-Nov-2005 18:59
I wasn't even born! heheh
nice tribute.
Guest 22-Nov-2005 18:48
Hmmm! I was sitting in a class at Buffalo State Teachers College in my sophomore year. Class was soon canceled.
Nicely done Robin
Pepe Zyman22-Nov-2005 18:45
In my opinion, President Kennedy and President Reagan where the best!
Rene Hales22-Nov-2005 18:25
Thanks for sharing the memories. I was teaching 9th grade general science in Springfield, MO when the announcement came over the intercom of the shooting in Dallas. I went home that afternoon to watch TV and mourn the passing of JFK. I remember being a teenager watching the Democratic National Convention when JFK made a speech (can't remember if it was a nominating speech - he was not running). I was young, but told my great aunt that I thought this was a person with ideas I could believe in.--Rene
scott clarke22-Nov-2005 18:22
Well done Robin.