Yesterday marked the 62nd anniversary of the President Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Everyone who was alive at the time can well remember hearing that news with shock. I was in high school on that day, and as a member of the Concert Choir, we had traveled to Indianapolis to give some concerts. When we got to one high school, the students there told us that Kennedy had been killed, but I didn’t believe it. I figured those city guys were just trying to pull a fast one on us country bumpkins. Later, as we went to other schools, the assassination became real.
The photo above shows the headline of the Indianapolis newspaper that I bought later that day.
For years, I produced a “Trivia” calendar that featured the historical trivia of things that had happened on each date. To help me make the calendar I had collected a huge database of trivia that had happened on each day of the year. Some of the trivia that I had collected had to do with JFK. Here are three of the most interesting trivia I had in my database about JFK:
On May 13, 1959 when Kennedy was in congress, he introduced a bill that would ban the type of rifle that eventually killed him. That, I think, is really ironic coincidence. The N.R.A. (the National Rifle Association, a very powerful lobby group for gun manufacturers and gun lovers), through its money and influence, managed to defeat Kennedy’s bill.
On January 21, 1961 The mother of Lee Harvey Oswald (Kennedy’s assassinator) wrote a letter to newly inaugurated President Kennedy asking him to help get her son out of the USSR.
February 6, 1962, President Kennedy had his aides buy him 1,000 Cuban cigars for future use, before he placed an embargo on all Cuban products.
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