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November 22 marked the 45^th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  Do you remember what you were doing when you heard this tragic news?

I don’t.  I was on the verge of turning 3-years-old when JFK was assassinated.  But I have relived this event via documentaries, books, movies, and the reruns of the Zapruder assassination film so much that I feel like I CAN remember.

Thanks to old videos, I have watched him get the top of his head blown off, watched his new widow scramble to the back of the moving limousine in terror, and watched that same widow, regal now, lead the funeral procession of world leaders.  At one time or another, I have watched all of this in tears.  

But do you know what saddens me the most?  The question of “what if.”

“What IF” John F. Kennedy had lived?  How would our world be different today had he not taken that fateful trip along Dealey Plaza? 

Would we have ever known of a Vietnam? 

Would Lyndon B. Johnson ever have become President of the United States? 

Would Nixon ever have become President, engineered Watergate, then be forced from office? 

Most of all, I wonder this—

WOULD we still have a true Democratic Party?

Think about it. 

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