I have a guest author today who has written 2 poems, in memory of John F Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. Events in Dallas 60 years ago should not be forgotten and are still being investigated by many today.

John F Kennedy

On that fateful day in Dallas

In the fall of ’63

Engraved forever in my heart and memory

Millions full of sorrow at this insanity

He gave us hope and vision

Shone light on humanity

He stood against the tyrant

Freedom his final frontier

The tears still flow after so many years

Why oh why the world did cry

Was this bright light extinguished

Taken from us so young, so premature

The dreams asleep in Camelot

Excalibur beneath the waves

The eternal flame as with his name

Will burn and live forever

Lee Harvery Oswald

You were pilloried and crucified, your name blackened by history

Your family to this very day suffer and bear their pain in silence

The loss of your life applauded by many and welcomed by most

Yet the truth lays still buried, much to America and History’s shame

The lies remain forever embedded within the social and political maze

For you were part of their plot, a victim of their untruths and deceit

Many try to find a path through the spiders web of conspiracy

You were a foot soldier to be used and discarded by the real masters

Treasonous acts wrapped in silk and put forth to the unknowing

They dare call it Democracy where people can lose their very lives

When the truth is hidden through violence fear and silence

They dare call it Democracy when the peoples voices go unheard

We should not forget November 1963, we should not forget Kennedy

Nor should we forget Lee Harvey Oswald, himself a victim

A victim of traitors liars and cheats, they know who they are

They took control not through the ballot but by the use of bullets.

By Gerry O’Neil