57 Years Ago Today A Brilliant Light Was Extinguished

 

     57 years ago today at 11:00 AM Pacific time, John F. Kennedy was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald. It broke my heart when I got the news. The US came to a stop for several days as we all grieved. It never should have happened. John F. Kennedy was 46 years old and appeared to be in excellent health. In reality, he was a sick man who I do not believe would have lived out a second term as president from 1964 to 1968. He had severe back problems and wore a back brace. The first bullet hit him and wounded him. Any other person would have fallen over. A possibility of a second fatal head shot would not have existed. Kennedy's back brace kept him upright. Oswald was able to fire the fatal shot to the head.

    Oswald should not have been at the scene of the assassination that day. Oswald was a mentally unstable ex-USMC sniper who defected to Russia and returned to the US with his Russian bride Marina. He went to Mexico City to the Cuban Embassy. He applied for permission to live in Cuba. His initial application was turned down by Cuban authorities. Shortly before the shooting, the Cubans changed their mind. Oswald was given permission to emigrate to Cuba and live there. Had Oswald's initial application been approved, he would have been in Havana on the day that Kennedy was shot.

     The US Secret Service also failed to look at Oswald as a person of interest and a potential security threat to the president.

      This tragedy shook the Secret Service right to their roots. Since then, no US president has been killed. Only President Reagan was shot and wounded.

       To all my readers, please observe a moment of silence for John F. Kennedy. He had an incredible intellect, compassion for people, and saved us from a nuclear war in October of 1962.