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Kennedy Assassination Revisited Every Year
Remember and Reflect 11-22-63 Even if you were not alive in 1963 or you were too young to remember that day, listen to the voices of those who were there. Anywhere in the entire country, the whole country felt the shock. And the grief. And the questions. Anyone who remembers that day will remember where they were, what they were doing, as well as what came next. “Presidential assassinations leave a deep scar on our collective memory and consciousness as a nation.” This quote comes from a 1993 book published by Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX, which included surgical details of the injuries sustained from gunshot wounds to John…
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Good Friday: Did Jesus Have to Die?
After Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11:1–44), the die was cast. The Rubicon crossed. No turning back. The Jewish religious leaders gathered, devising the plot to kill Jesus. Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did [raised Lazarus], believed in him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” But one of them, Caiaphas, who…
