John F. Kennedy assassination’s 50th anniversary

<div> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div> <h1 class="story-header" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px none; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;">John F. Kennedy assassination’s 50th anniversary marked nationwide as Obama says the late president 'moved people in a way that still resonates with us today'</span></h1> <h2 class="story-subheader" itemprop="alternativeHeadline" style="border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;">At Arlington National Cemetery, 85-year-old Jean Kennedy Smith, the slain President’s last surviving sibling, laid a wreath at her brother’s grave as other Kennedys joined her.</span></h2> <span style="border: 0px none; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/">http://www.nydailynews.com</a></span></div> <div> <span style="border: 0px none; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="border: 0px none; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /><img alt=" An unidentified girl, left, holds a rose during a wreath laying ceremony with former US Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith, center, and Patrick Hallinan, executive director of Army National Military Cemeteries, Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, at the gravesite of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death.  " src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1526075.1385148265!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/kennedy-anniversary.jpg" /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span> <div class="story-img" itemid="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1526075!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/kennedy-anniversary.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"> <h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px none; color: #111111; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px none; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith, the former President's last surviving sibling, during a wreath ceremony in Arlington, Va., at Kennedy's gravesite. She is joined by an unidentified girl and Patrick Hallinan, executive director of Army National Military Cemeteries.</div> </span></h4> </div> <div class="story-body p402_premium" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px none; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px none; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px none; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">America marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/John+F.+Kennedy" style="border: 0px none; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none ! important; vertical-align: baseline;" title="John F. Kennedy">President John F. Kennedy</a> on Friday with somber, subdued remembrances.</span></div> </div> <span style="border: 0px none; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">From Gotham’s canyons to the grassy knoll in Dallas, Americans of all generations acknowledged the awful events of Nov. 22, 1963 — the day an assassin’s bullet robbed the country of its young, charismatic leader at a time of turmoil at home and abroad.</span><span style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br /><img alt="Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, lays a wreath during a memorial service in Runnymede, England." src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1526093.1385150069!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/524902394.jpg" /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="border: 0px none; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="border: 0px none; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, lays a wreath during a memorial service in Runnymede, England.</span><span style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div>

John F. Kennedy assassination’s 50th anniversary

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