It's Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing.

A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

It was 60 years ago at about 12.30 PM Central time

that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States,

was assassinated on the streets of Dallas, Texas in a presidential

motorcade. That event that took place 60 years ago today is deeply etched in

the American memory and even as President John F. Kennedy was already an

important historical figure he became instantly an iconic historical figure and

the United States was in shock as was much of the rest of the world.

A president of the United States, a man holding the most powerful political position on

earth, head of the government of the United States of America and Head of State had been killed by rifle shot on the streets of a major American city.

It was so shocking that Americans took some time to come to grips with the reality of it all,

as did the American government, as we now know.

However, 60 years later, it's important that we take stock, even on this day before Thanksgiving in the year

2003 because a 60th anniversary is one of those rare occasions to look back in

American history and not only come to terms with what happened and what it meant then, but what happened,

what was happening at the same time and what all these things mean now.

As I said, John F. Kennedy was already a figure of historical consequence. He was the first president born in the 20th century.

It was his youth in 1960 that was his brand, along with the fact that he was a decorated veteran of World War II.

But the family history is a part of this story, and it may well be a part of the assassination story as well.

We simply don't know.

The fact that we don't know is another big part of the story.

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