Today it has been 50 years since that drastic day which changed America and shook the world. In Dallas, Texas a President loved by the nation climbed into an open-top car with his wife to greet the Americans who had gathered on the streets, only to have his life cut short.
JFK supposedly died by the bullet of a lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later killed. The horrific events were captured on film by Abraham Zapruder and have spiked conspiracy theories for the last fifty years.
Instead of concentrating on the events of that tragic day, I would like to take a minute to remember and honor the short but extraordinary life of JFK.
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
Ask not what your country can do for you: ask what you can do for your country.
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
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