President Joe Biden on his 81st birthday, Nov. 20, 2023. Courtesy the president’s Instagram account.
If President Joe Biden’s debate performance had been a Broadway play, it would’ve closed the night it opened. At times stiff and unresponsive, he stood there as if his spirit were encased in wood, like some mythological creature whom the gods would destroy before loving, while former President Donald J. Trump hammered home false narrative after false narrative. Good grief.
Read MoreMembers of the grieving Kennedy family at the Nov. 25, 1963, funeral of President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C., including from left, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, actor Peter Lawford (behind him), Caroline Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. (saluting). The late Katonah, New York, resident John Shearer, who would go on to a career in photojournalism covering the civil rights movement among other events of the 1960s and ’70s, was just 17 when he took this photograph, despite being knocked down by the Secret Service. It is part of the exhibit “American Moments: John Shearer,” on view at The Capa Space in Yorktown Heights, New York, Dec. 9 through April 7.
Wednesday, Nov. 22 marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas.
Those of a certain vintage can remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard the shocking news. In a sense, we’ve never recovered from it.
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