50th Anniversary of JFK Assassination, Share Your Memories

1. Where were you on Nov. 22, 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas? Do you remember that day? Maybe you weren't alive yet but like all of us have been affected.

Share your memories or thoughts on our Town Square page.

2. Activities today at the Senior Center include:

8:30-10:30 Coffee Shop  
9:00 Men’s Cribbage  
9:30 “Slammers” 
10:30-11:30 Office Hours with  Representative  James Murphy’s Staff  Noon Thanksgiving  Luncheon  
1:00 Drop-in Mah Jongg

3. Share your sports photos, fundraising events, dance videos – anything at all related to Hingham High School on our open blog for the school.

4. There is a chance of showers Friday after 10 a.m. with a high temperature around 50 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Showers also tonight, before 3 a.m., with a low around 36. 

5. On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. And in the decades since, those may be the only facts not in dispute. JFK was 46 years old. His accused gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, was 24. 

What follows is an excerpt from the speech Kennedy was scheduled to give that day: Across the land, the NY Times reported him as supposed to have said, there are "voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality, wholly unsuited to the sixties, doctrines which apparently assume that words will suffice without weapons, that vituperation is as good as victory and that peace is a sign of weakness."