SATURDAY EVENING POST ISSUE MEMORIALIZES JFK
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (JFK+50) Fifty-four years ago, December 14, 1963, Saturday Evening Post published an entire issue devoted to President John F. Kennedy. The cover of this issue was a painting of JFK's face by Norman Rockwell.
The issue included an article by Bill Davidson titled "A Profile In Family Courage." Mr. Davidson writes that a maid approached Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at 1:44 p.m. Eastern time on November 22, 1963 saying...
"Mr. J. Edgar Hoover (FBI Director) is on the White House phone."
After RFK picked up the phone and heard the words of the Director, he said...
"Jack's been shot. It may be fatal."
In another article in the issue, "Hate Knows No Direction," Ralph Emerson McGill writes...
"We must now understand that hate...may so weaken us that we will be vulnerable to our enemies."
And also in "A Eulogy: John F. Kennedy," Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. writes that JFK gave the nation...
"a new spirit, a new style, a new conception of its role and destiny."
SOURCE
"John F. Kennedy, In Memoriam", by Post Editors, The Saturday Evening Post, www.saturdayeveningpost.com/
"Jack's been shot. It may be fatal."
In another article in the issue, "Hate Knows No Direction," Ralph Emerson McGill writes...
"We must now understand that hate...may so weaken us that we will be vulnerable to our enemies."
And also in "A Eulogy: John F. Kennedy," Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. writes that JFK gave the nation...
"a new spirit, a new style, a new conception of its role and destiny."
SOURCE
"John F. Kennedy, In Memoriam", by Post Editors, The Saturday Evening Post, www.saturdayeveningpost.com/
Saturday Evening Post
Memorial Issue
December 14, 1963
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