(Radio Martí, 23/11/10) - Hoy se cumplen 47 años del asesinato del presidente John F. Kennedy cuando desfilaba en una caravana por el centro de la ciudad de Dallas, Texas.
Kennedy, el hombre más joven elegido para la presidencia de Estados Unidos, murió a los 46 años.
El crimen sigue siendo un triste momento histórico imborrable en la memoria de los estadounidenses, ya que muchos recuerdan lo que estaban haciendo cuando se enteraron de la noticia.
Los investigadores concluyeron que el magnicidio fue obra de una sola persona, Lee Harvey Oswald, quien a su vez fue asesinado dos días después por el dueño de un club nocturno de Dallas, aunque existen diferentes hipótesis.
JFK ASSASSINATION ANNIVERSARY -JOHN F. KENNEDY
VIDEO BY TINKER2ELVIS12 JFK Assassination Anniversary: Eternal Flame Flickers but Still Burns-The answer -- even though I have not been asked the question in perhaps 15 years -- is high school chemistry class. My uncomprehending teacher tried to continue with the planned experiment involving a Bunsen burner even after word spread that John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas.
Forty-seven years later, it all seems part of another world defined by black-and-white television, the black-and-white certainties of the Cold War and black-and-white racial relations. Even if he had served two full terms as president, JFK (born in 1917 and afflicted with Addison's disease) almost certainly would be long dead by now. Few remain who were close to John Kennedy (aside from his daughter, Caroline) following the deaths of Ted Kennedy last year and "ask not" speechwriter Ted Sorensen three weeks ago.
Today's Americans -- no matter what age -- have become hardened by the shock of wrenching events from the 9/11 attacks to the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and the shooting of Ronald Reagan. But for teenagers born after World War II, this was not how it was supposed to be in 1963. Assassination meant John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Lincoln's evening at the theater. Walter Shapiro
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