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A half-century since the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Wanneer: 22/11/2013 - 13:29
Hij was niet de eerste maar de vierde Amerikaanse president die is vermoord.
The first question that arises on this anniversary is why the death of John F. Kennedy
retains such a hold on the consciousness of the American people even
after the passage of a half-century. He was not the first, but the fourth American president
to be assassinated. Of course, the murder of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865 lives
in the national consciousness, nearly 150 years after the event, as one of the most tragic
and traumatic events in American history.
The next two presidents to die at the hand of an assassin,
James Garfield in 1881 and William McKinley in 1901, were mourned in their time
and soon forgotten. Certainly there is no record of significant commemorations
of Garfield’s murder in 1931 or of McKinley’s in 1951.
Volledig artikel: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/22/pers-n22.html