A year ago this week, no one could escape the wall-to-wall coverage of the Kennedy assassination’s 50th anniversary. Every major U.S. network and many in other countries produced documentary programs and segments about President John F. Kennedy’s administration and his untimely death. Almost all newspapers, magazines, and websites published special editions or wide-ranging stories. Even Dallas came to terms with history and held its first-ever commemoration of the city’s most tragic day. After the intense 2013 hoopla, it’s a good bet there won’t be much fuss about this Saturday’s 51st anniversary. Yet one effect of the previous November’s concentrated focus on JFK is that people have come forward with new information. Dr Larry J. Sabato The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy

Jerry Pippin the Oklahoma journalist and Liberal commentator remembers that eventful day in November of 1963.