Then along comes that wild and wacky decade that we call "THE 60'S". That is when the peace symbol definitely got a new face. Actually from what I've read the "peace" symbol had been around for awhile, but it really became an every day thing in the 60's. Did YOU know that the peace symbol was based on the semaphore signals for "N" & "D". The "N" stood for NUCLEAR and the "D" stood for DISARMAMENT.

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People have asked me what is was like growing up in the 60's. Since I don't have any other point of reference, I can't compare it to growing up in any other time.

The year "1960" saw a presidential election of great importance. John F. Kennedy became the youngest man elected to the office. He was also the first Roman Catholic to be elected President.

On January 20, 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath of office and became our 35th President.

Here we are at the beginning of a new decade. We have a young, charismatic and goodlooking man sitting in the President's seat. The world looked great in the eyes of a teenager. [Little did we know the trials our country was facing abroad.] AH!! The ignorance of youth

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On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy also became the youngest president to die in office.

On that fateful day our President was on a speechmaking tour getting ready for the 1964 elections. He had traveled to Texas and he was in Dallas on that day. The First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, was at his side.

The reception they received was very favorable, as they passed through the streets in their open vehicle. Then tragedy struck, at 12:30 PM, shots rang out and our beloved President had been shot twice. The governor of Texas, John Connally, was also seriously wounded, while riding with the President. JFK was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, were he was pronounced dead about one half hour later.

Can any one, who was old enough to remember that day, honestly say they do not know exactly where they were when they heard the news?
I know I was crushed that day, while sitting in American History class at Lincoln Senior High School in Michigan, when the announcement came over the loud speaker. I felt like someone had pulled the rug out from under me. I don't really remember leaving school that day. I just remember going home early, to an empty house and sitting and watching, through the tears, as that scene played over and over again on the television.

Within two hours after our beloved President died, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office and became our 36th President.

The country watched coverage as the body of John F. Kennedy lay in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. We watched as the leaders of 92 nations attended the state funeral, and a million people lined the streets as the horse-drawn caisson bore the body of JFK to his final resting place in Arlington National Cemetery. Yes we watched it all, yet found it so hard to believe.

We had mourned with the president over the loss of his premature son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, a few short months before. Now we mourned over the loss of our President himself.

On the day of the assassination, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of our president. Oswald was a 24 year-old ex-Marine, who had lived in the Soviet Union for a while.

At least this is what we have been told. Our country was led to believe that Oswald was the one and only gunman that day and that he was responsible for taking our President's life.

He was also said to have killed a police officer in Dallas, Policeman J. D. Tippit, while resisting arrest.

We will never know his side to the story because he was shot and killed two days later, in the basement of the Dallas police station, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner.

On November 29th, President Johnson appointed a seven-member commission to conduct a thorough investigation of the assassination and report to the nation. This committee became known as the Warren Commission. According to a report they released on September 27, 1964, Oswald was indeed the lone assassin. The claim was also made that the committee "found no evidence" that either Oswald or Ruby were part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign, to assassinate the president.

In 1979, the House assassinations committee, after two years of investigation, concluded that Oswald probably was part of a conspiracy that may have also included members of organized crime.

My friends, the young girl of the 60s believed the poppycock we were fed concerning Oswald. The mature grandmother, of the year 2000, says we were handed a pile of manure so deep we still haven't found the bottom.

I was going to do another page regarding the life of Lee Harvey Oswald as a spin off to this page. In my research, I ran across some very serious allegations. This made me realize that I could not do justice to a page on Oswald. So please take the time to read the following report for yourself:http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/oswald.htm

Please pay close attention to the links in the report, especially September1959, Astugi, Japan.