Showing posts with label john f. kennedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label john f. kennedy. Show all posts

Friday, July 29, 2016

Quote of the Day for 2016-07-29


"At night, before we'd go to sleep, Jack liked to play some records; and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record. The lines he loved to hear were: 'Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot.' … There'll never be another Camelot again."

Jacqueline Kennedy (1929-1994) Quoted by Theodore H. White in "For President Kennedy An Epilogue," Life magazine (December 6, 1963)

Kennedy family leaving the Capitol building after John F. Kennedy's funeral. Left to right: Peter Lawford, Patricia Kennedy Lawford (hidden), Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith, Caroline Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy, Jr. (November 25, 1963) Photograph by Abbie Rowe
Kennedy family leaving the Capitol building after John F. Kennedy's funeral. Left to right: Peter Lawford, Patricia Kennedy Lawford (hidden), Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith, Caroline Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy, Jr. (November 25, 1963) Photograph by Abbie Rowe

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Quote of the Day for 2015-12-12


"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some are wounded and some men never leave the country. … Life is unfair."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Press Conference, March 21, 1962

Secretary of War Newton D. Baker (blindfolded) draws the first number in a nationwide lottery to determine the order of drafting men for the military. (June 27, 1918)