JFK REMEMBERERED NOV. 21 IN LEMON GROVE

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November 12, 2015 (Lemon Grove)—“JFK Remembered,” a screening of President John F. Kennedy’s visit to San Diego on June 6, 1963, will be presented on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. by the Lemon Grove Historical Society at the Lemon Grove Library (3001 School Lane).

“If you were there that day, please bring your memories and join with former policemen, students, teachers, crew, military and civilians who were connected to JFK’s visit. We’ll be videotaping your memories for posterity,” says Helen Ofield, president of the Lemon Grove Historical Society.  There will also be a display of memorabilia.

Kennedy visited San Diego State College (now San Diego State University) to deliver the commencement address at graduation and  stopped at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. He also traveled by open motorcade through San Diego—just 5 months and 16 days before his assassination on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

For more information, contact the Lemon Grove historical Society at  619-460-4353 • lghistorical@gmail.com

Editor's note:  I was there!  My parents took me out of kindergarten to see the President's motorcade.  We were in front of the old Blumer's Bakery on El Cajon Blvd. amid the cheering crowd; Mom held me up on her shoulders and Dad took reel-to-reel home video --  much like the now infamous Magruder video when Kennedy was killed in Dallas just a few months later.  It was so hard to believe that smiling man standing up and waving at us in the motorcade was gone.


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Four days later JFK delivered his historic peace speech

at American University. "[W]hat kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am taking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living,....." The peace speech was followed the very next day by his speech on civil rights. Kennedy went on to negotiate peace with the Soviet Union's Nikita Krushchev (until November).

JFK visit on 6-6-1963

Unlike most TV footage when I saw JFK ride by he was sitting on the back ledge behind the back seat of the 1956 Cadillac convertible so apparently he switched vehicles at one point. I was standing near some sort of furniture store on El Cajon Blvd and my mother had taken me there. I was in the fifth grade. My mother had graduated from San Diego State in 1938 with a Bachelors degree. The furniture store was on a corner. I used to remember the name. Maybe it will come back to me ? Buffums ???