Sixty-two years ago today America was shaken to the core by what happened in Dallas. To this day I will read the latest book that comes out. There have been years when I would get the bug and spend weeks reading and researching what happened in Dealey Plaza. Four and a half years after that fateful day....my own world was shaken to the core by what happened in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. You probably do not know this but twenty days before Dallas....the President of South Vietnam....Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown and murdered during the CIA-backed coup.
President Kennedy was to read a speech in Dallas that was probably composed by speechwriter and friend Ted Sorensen....who later wrote that "[JFK] alone was responsible for the decision that lay at the heart of every major speech."
In that speech that was never given but is considered to be the last official words of President John Kennedy....was the second part of the first verse of Psalm 127....from the King James...."Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." The full concluding statement in that speech was this....
"The righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago...."Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it....Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
