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Abraham * Martin and John *** Dion (Original Post) Swede Oct 4 OP
So much promise BigMin28 Oct 4 #1
This post on facebook got me posting these couple of tunes. Swede Oct 4 #2
Thank you for posting Botany Oct 4 #3
Beautiful and sad. Swede Oct 4 #5
A song that deserves to be much better-known. lastlib Oct 4 #4

Swede

(37,695 posts)
2. This post on facebook got me posting these couple of tunes.
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 10:16 AM
Oct 4

On November 22, 1963, as Jacqueline Kennedy left Parkland Hospital in Dallas, she carried with her the unbearable weight of sudden widowhood and the visible scars of tragedy. Her pink Chanel-style suit, splattered with her husband’s blood, became an eternal symbol of national grief.
Nurses and aides gently urged her to change, even offering a cloth to wipe the stains away. But she refused. Her words—firm and sorrowful—echoed through history: “No. Let them see what they’ve done to Jack.” It was not just defiance; it was love, anguish, and dignity bound together in a single decision.
Hours earlier, she had cradled President Kennedy’s shattered head in her lap as the motorcade raced toward Parkland. That same blood now marked her gloves, her suit, her very being. And she chose to keep it there—wearing it through the swearing-in of Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One, her presence a silent testimony no one could turn away from.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CVdtnBr2r/

lastlib

(26,923 posts)
4. A song that deserves to be much better-known.
Sat Oct 4, 2025, 11:00 AM
Oct 4

Thank you for posting it.

RFK Sr. has long been my political hero.

I stand with them.

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