The Assassination

Assassination of President Kennedy The tank ship was on the way to Kingston in Jamaica The sea was deep blue, the weather calm, In a few hours, we could stretch our legs and have a beer because the ship was dry, the charter in Houston, Texas, had insisted on this. The radio operator came down and said “Kennedy had been shot and killed.” There were shocked voices, was it true? We all looked up to the president he, like us young and represented, the future and now taken away. Of course, we blamed the Russians until news came and said the assassin was an American. He Kennedy had stood up to Khrushchev and told him to leave Cuba. Later, some of us understood that Mr. Khrushchev had saved Kennedy and his hint of using nuclear force, what would he have done if Russia had not yielded? We loved Kennedy, we saw him as a harbinger of better times when world leaders could talk and find peace. I was young at the time and it was a good time to be young Years later, I saw Walter Concrete in a recording announcing Kennedy's death, and he said it all.