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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 2, 2022 22:07:04 GMT
He worked at that book depository? I had no idea. I was in 5th grade when this happened, and my parents shielded me from a lot of the news coverage. I had never read much about it - I was just sickened by the fact that JFK had been assassinated. But for some reason, this thread caught my eye. I am glad I read it. I was being born when JFK was shot. I came into this world 20 minutes after Kennedy left. I guess that's why I've been fascinated with the assassination. For a long time I was in the conspiracy camp. Not anymore.
No wonder you were fascinated. Wow.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 2, 2022 22:19:47 GMT
I was being born when JFK was shot. I came into this world 20 minutes after Kennedy left. I guess that's why I've been fascinated with the assassination. For a long time I was in the conspiracy camp. Not anymore.
No wonder you were fascinated. Wow. I had an aunt who was convinced JFK's spirit entered my body. She drove my mother and father insane. She insisted that I be renamed John Fitzgerald Kennedy ________. It would have been silly because I'm Russian and Polish. it took me a long time to figure out why she called me "Jack". She even tried to drag me off to a seance so I could connect with my inner Kennedy (Mom found out and went ballistic). She finally quit but I believed up the the day she died that I was JFK.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 3, 2022 1:01:04 GMT
No wonder you were fascinated. Wow. I had an aunt who was convinced JFK's spirit entered my body. She drove my mother and father insane. She insisted that I be renamed John Fitzgerald Kennedy ________. It would have been silly because I'm Russian and Polish. it took me a long time to figure out why she called me "Jack". She even tried to drag me off to a seance so I could connect with my inner Kennedy (Mom found out and went ballistic). She finally quit but I believed up the the day she died that I was JFK.
When I read your earlier post, I wondered if that aspect had been discussed by any of your family members. That must have been a conflicting and disturbing issue. It is remarkable how a single incident like that can shape a person's entire life. My mother had a traumatic incident as a young adult that influenced her for the rest of her life and affected both my father and me. Her fiancé died in WWII. She stayed in touch with his parents, years later, even after she married my dad, and sent them photos of me as if I was their grandchild (there was no possibility that I was, he died in the war, and I was born in 1953). She talked about him to me even as a young child. When she was in the nursing home in her late nineties, she told one of the hospice workers all about her dead fiancé, including his name. When questioned about her family, she said that she had married and had a daughter. No names mentioned. She was completely fixated on that one trauma. She died a few months later. So, it seems we each have been haunted by a dead person that we never knew.
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