The
Last Night
Please follow the link here to see
pictures of President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Houston on what would be his
last night on earth. Most of the
pictures are of the motorcade trip.
The last few feature the downtown crowds, the LULAC speech, an evening
banquet, and the President and the First Lady.
Houston
Chronicle JFK Visit Images
The
Work Is Our Own
By
Marco A. Roberts
Many
thoughts come to mind looking at these pictures of the last hours of an era
that captivated America's and the world's imagination. Some personal, a provoked retrospective of
my own life that started not long before those images were taken, and how
much Houston and I have changed since that day.
Even
growing up in Puerto Rico and Mexico City, early on I became aware as a child
of the power of the Kennedy vision, and the effect it had on people
everywhere. And now, yet still, after
fifty years that have seen me grow from an infant to a man leaving middle
age, these photos are as mesmerizing as ever, as seem all images of this
lost, brief time. Like looking past a two-way
looking glass, into a dream of an America we all wanted, that never quite
was.
When
you look at the faces of the people watching the motorcades in Houston and
Dallas, people clearly of all backgrounds and walks of life, this is what you
see: all of them seem happy.
Everyone.
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Most
of them are gone now, only the youngest still among us as old men and
women. And still we all look
back. Even those of us too young to
remember, we look back. We look back
with a certain longing, a slight tingle of pain that seems out of place for
something so far removed from our personal lives. Somehow we understand the sadness and
sense of loss that has been conveyed to us by those who do remember. We heard about Camelot and about a new
generation of freedom, and we heard about the deep, terrible sorrow. And, through each look back, we have seen
the wave of tears that swept the nation.
We
are always looking for someone to lift us up from the uncertainties and
disappointments and struggles of our lives; to make us look ahead with
optimism and hope, and to lead and have us know our path with confidence –
with a firm belief that we are on the right side of God and history. Perhaps the people in those images
thought they had found that man, and then thought they had lost him.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do
not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it. I do not believe that
any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other
generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this
endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that
fire can truly light the world
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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for
you--ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what
America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of
man.
Finally, whether you are citizens
of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards
of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our
only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go
forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but
knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
President John
Fitzgerald Kennedy
Inaugural Speech
January 20, 1961
The
dream remains. And, so does our
work.
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