November 12, 2015 (Lemon Grove)—“JFK Remembered,” a screening of President John F. Kennedy’s visit to San Diego on June 6, 1963, will be presented on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. by the Lemon Grove Historical Society at the Lemon Grove Library (3001 School Lane).
“If you were there that day, please bring your memories and join with former policemen, students, teachers, crew, military and civilians who were connected to JFK’s visit. We’ll be videotaping your memories for posterity,” says Helen Ofield, president of the Lemon Grove Historical Society. There will also be a display of memorabilia.
Kennedy visited San Diego State College (now San Diego State University) to deliver the commencement address at graduation and stopped at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. He also traveled by open motorcade through San Diego—just 5 months and 16 days before his assassination on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
For more information, contact the Lemon Grove historical Society at 619-460-4353 • lghistorical@gmail.com
Editor's note: I was there! My parents took me out of kindergarten to see the President's motorcade. We were in front of the old Blumer's Bakery on El Cajon Blvd. amid the cheering crowd; Mom held me up on her shoulders and Dad took reel-to-reel home video -- much like the now infamous Magruder video when Kennedy was killed in Dallas just a few months later. It was so hard to believe that smiling man standing up and waving at us in the motorcade was gone.
