Volume 16 , Issue 15

NW Okie's Journey

Cicero once said, "To be ignorant of the past is to remain as a child."

We found this quote written by Robert F. Kennedy on the back of the High Fidelity recording, John F. Kennedy: Years Of Lightning, Day of Drums [Memorial, documentary sound track that the government agency (USIA) made to convey encouraging thought that the basic humane, peaceful program of the Kennedy Administration was being carried on after his death].

My husband, found this 1966 (or 1964-1965) LP recording at a weekend garage sale around Durango, Colorado. You can scroll down to find the YouTube.com version of the USIA film of John F. Kennedy: Years Of Lightning, Day of Drums.

The early 1960's was an important period in the history of this country and in our relationship with peoples of other lands. This album portrays some of the highlights of that period and perhaps lessons for all of us for the future. President Kennedy had a particular affection for children, and his efforts in the Presidency were directed at trying to build the best possible world for them to inherit. Perhaps our young people will have an opportunity to hear this album and thus share those days with President Kennedy.



Remember when the Peace Corps came into existence as a peaceful revolution, teaching others to teach themselves. The Peace Corps did not die with JFK, but was continued via President Johnson.

Then there was the fight for civil rights and equality. In 1957 there was prejudice throughout the South. A great change was at hand during Kennedy's Administration. The Freedom Rider's (approx. 200,000) gathered on 28 August 1963 in a peaceful assembly in Washington, DC, for equality, employment, education and housing throughout the USA, North and South. It was not just equality for Blacks. It was equality for everyone.

President John F. Kennedy on 11 June 1963, in a Civil Rights Announcement, once said, "A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all. Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality." [Civil Rights Announcement, 1963, JFK.]

President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Bill in 1964 as a continuing moment to John F. Kennedy.

With a Voice of optimism and performance from President Kennedy in the 1960's America had new knowledge and successes in the journey into Space with astronauts and satellites.

We should all remember what famous quote sticks in our minds that President John F. Kennedy left with us all on his inaugural address: "And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is working! Tell Congress to can keep their hands off of our Medicare and Social Security, and stop trying to repeal our Healthcare Act!

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