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10 years ago, I was a junior in high school. I happened to walk by while a documentary was airing on my TV about the 50th anniversary of the assassination.

After that, I fell into a rabbit hole and wanted to learn more about the Kennedys.. eventually leading to the making of this account!

It's hard to believe seeing it already be the 60th anniversary today.. it made me want to log on and pay my respects (and also say hi ☺︎).

I'm happy I kept this blog around, just scrolling through my archive its full of memories and its great to see people still enjoying the posts years later.

Have a happy thanksgiving and holiday season! ~♥︎

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“He’d held my hand, I remember, he’d held my hand.“ 

— Jackie Kennedy

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JFK and Jackie arrive in Dallas, Texas 60 years ago today

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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994)

Jack used to watch the White House television tour all the time. It was so sweet the way he was proud of me. I was so happy that I could do something that made him proud of me. I was never any different once I was in the White House than I was before, but suddenly everything that had been a liability before: my hair, that I spoke French, that I didn’t just adore campaigning, that I didn’t bake bread with flour up to my arms… When we got in the White House, all the things that I’d always done suddenly became wonderful to people. I was so happy for Jack that he could be proud of me. It made him so happy, and it made me so happy. – Jackie Kennedy, 1964

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The inauguration of John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States 

Friday, January 20, 1961

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JFK’s Inauguration 60 years ago - January 20, 1961

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Photo session by Mark Shaw in March 1961.

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Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one briefly shining moment, that was known as Camelot

#thinkin of them today #camelot #<3

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First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy in India

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Jacqueline Kennedy at JFK airport in New York on September 20, 1969.

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JFK and Jackie with their two children at Hammersmith Farm

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Aug. 14, 1956 - Jackie Kennedy attends the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 

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Jack and Jackie Kennedy

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Pat Kennedy Lawford, Jean Kennedy Smith, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy c.1950s

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Aug. 14, 1956 - Jackie, Jean & Eunice attend the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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Eulogy for John F. Kennedy

There was a sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands.

There was a wit in a man neither young nor old, but a wit full of an old man’s wisdom and of a child’s wisdom, and then, in a moment it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands.

There was a man marked with the scars of his love of country, a body active with the surge of a life far, far from spent and, in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands.

There was a father with a little boy, a little girl and a joy of each in the other. In a moment it was no more, and so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands.

There was a husband who asked much and gave much, and out of the giving and the asking wove with a woman what could not be broken in life, and in a moment it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands, and kissed him and closed the lid of a coffin.

A piece of each of us died at that moment. Yet, in death he gave of himself to us. He gave us of a good heart from which the laughter came. He gave us of a profound wit, from which a great leadership emerged. He gave us of a kindness and a strength fused into a human courage to seek peace without fear.

He gave us of his love that we, too, in turn, might give. He gave that we might give of ourselves, that we might give to one another until there would be no room, no room at all, for the bigotry, the hatred, prejudice, and the arrogance which converged in that moment of horror to strike him down.

In leaving us – these gifts, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States, leaves with us. Will we take them, Mr. President? Will we have, now, the sense and the responsibility and the courage to take them?

I pray to God that we shall and under God we will.

- Mike Mansfield, Majority Leader of the United States Senate