JFK Assassination: 43 Years Ago Today

Our 36th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated 43 years ago today. Many of us are still calculating what was lost on that day in Dallas, in terms of our nation and our planet and our own personal psyches. We still contemplate how his violent death was but the first of many premature and unnecessary deaths to come in the 1960s and beyond, of leaders and ordinary folks alike. The struggle Kennedy described below continues, unabated:

Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. --JFK Inaugural Address, 1961

Genuine leadership is scarce. Inspiring rhetoric seems a lost art. The search for answers and a reawakening of our better aspects goes on. Info on many aspects of the assassination of JFK and his presidency can be found at wikipedia. Remember.