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JFK Assassination Talk at Braintree High, Yard Waste Pickup

5 Things: A run-down of events and other useful information for your life in Braintree on Nov. 22, 2013.

1. On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, students at Braintree High School will attend a special multimedia presentation to commemorate the life and presidency of JFK in the auditorium at 10 a.m.

2. Remember, fall yard waste pickup is this Saturday, Nov. 23 (ending next Saturday, Nov. 30). Leave leaves in brown leaf bags or a barrel and at your curb at 7 a.m.

3. Activities today at the Senior Center on Cleveland Avenue include: 

9:15 Exercise Class 
10:00 Weight Loss Group 
11:00 Tai Chi Class and Library van ride 
12:00 Pool Players 
1:00 Women’s Poker

4. There is a chance of showers Friday after 10 a.m. with a high temperature around 50 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Showers also tonight, before 3 a.m., with a low around 36. 

5. On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. And in the decades since, those may be the only facts not in dispute. JFK was 46 years old. His accused gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, was 24.

What follows is an excerpt from the speech Kennedy was scheduled to give that day: Across the land, the NY Times reported him as supposed to have said, there are "voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality, wholly unsuited to the sixties, doctrines which apparently assume that words will suffice without weapons, that vituperation is as good as victory and that peace is a sign of weakness."


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