{"id":852,"date":"2003-11-22T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2021-11-28T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T18:44:57","slug":"it-was-40-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"It Was 40 Years Ago Today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2003\/z112203kennedy_assassination.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Forty years ago<\/strong> today&#8230; I was <strong>five years<\/strong> and <strong>one month<\/strong> old and <\/span><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>President Kennedy<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> was <strong>assassinated<\/strong>. Like everyone old enough to remember, I <strong>know exactly<\/strong> where I was when I first learned of it.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: var(--text-font);\">I was in a grocery store in <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: var(--text-font);\">Miami<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: var(--text-font);\"> with my <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: var(--text-font);\">grandfather<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: var(--text-font);\">. He and my<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: var(--text-font);\"> grandma<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: var(--text-font);\"> had taken me on vacation to <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: var(--text-font);\">Florida<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: var(--text-font);\">. It&#8217;s the one vacation that I can tell you specifically where I was on a given day.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>I remember a man saying that the <strong>President had been shot<\/strong> and all of the adults looking scared. I&#8217;d never seen that before and it caused me some concern. My <strong>grandfather <\/strong>assured me things would be ok, but I remember us hurrying back to the hotel. I was only <strong>five years old<\/strong> but I followed the details as they became clear. <strong>President Kennedy<\/strong> was<strong> killed<\/strong> by <strong>Lee Harvey Oswald<\/strong> while visiting<strong> Dallas, Texas<\/strong>. <strong>Oswald<\/strong> acted alone and was caught after he killed a police officer named <strong>Tippett<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Oswald <\/strong>in turn was murdered [in a police station of all places] by <strong>Jack Ruby<\/strong>. I remember adults saying that <strong>Ruby<\/strong> should be given a medal for killing<strong> Oswald<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until I was older that I began to learn that maybe there was more to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfk-assassination.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Kennedy<\/strong><\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfk-assassination.de\/\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Assassination<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> than we were led to believe. I read the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research_room\/jfk\/warren_commission\/warren_commission_report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Warren Commission Report<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. I watched and read every related item that I could get my hands on. As the years have passed I have continued to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=kennedy%2Bassassination&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=iw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>read and search out new information<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. I hope that someday we will definitively know exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But as each year passes, I find the only thing that I am truly sure of in relation to the <strong>Kennedy Assassination<\/strong> is where I was when I first heard of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today&#8230; I was five years and one month old and President Kennedy was assassinated. 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