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In this video we react to the JFK Memorial in Runnymede, UK. Just outside of London, this incredibly peaceful 1 acre plot of land is a tribute to US President John F. Kennedy. We were shocked to learn that not only did the British people honor JFK with this memorial, Britain actually gifted this land to America! This is such an amazing display of respect and friendship. The JFK Memorial in England is on American land, yet on British soil. This is amazing.
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Not just a 1 acre of land. A piece of historic land that sits next to a place where democracy and freedom was conceived
My favourite Kennedy quote is "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country ". A lesson we can all learn.
Fine words, but when politicians are trousering tax payers money through corrupt means and neglecting the people. We should ask them. What have. You done for your country to be overly enriched by that same country. In the UK, corrupt politicians who seem to get away with it.
If you listen to what Kennedy was saying, the emphasis is on reaching out to other countries without fear, to learn and share. You can imagine how this must have felt to people all around the world - a new era of hope after two world wars. Kennedy represented the youth, freedom and spirit of the sixties - love, peace and forward looking.
I'm a Brit and was around in his day. Sorry but the thing I associate with JFK was the bay of pigs invasion. This should be a HUGE embarassement to the USA. There was also the suspected cover up of the demise of Marilyn Monroe. All in all, the Kennedys reeked of corruption and cover ups. But an American perspective may differ.
He's a yank, he only does what is best for murica and would've forced everything murican into other countries whilst keeping the protectionist murica free from outside influences.
I don't know why anything thinks he would be different to Nixon or Obama or trump, biden.
Unfortunately the cia and fbi didn't want a stable world so he had to go
Not just the era after two world wars, but also the Cold War, and the threat of nuclear war, with tensions being stoked all the time e.g. Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK had shifted from an initial hawkish position to one of actively trying to move to nuclear disarmament. His message of peace was heard loudly outside of USA
Yeah. That's why they killed him
The UK is respectful and sympathetic when a country like the USA loses a great leader or has a national tragedy .
Which is why the late Queen ordered the band of the Coldstream Guards to play the US National Anthem in public ,just after the tragedy of 9/11
She also did the same on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 at Windsor Castle in 2021 as a mark of respect.
But do you know why Kennedy was so respected around the world? Obviously not. Google "The Cuban Missile Crisis."
@@lorddaver5729it wasn’t a secret, think you will find much of Europe’s knows a lot about US politics.
They also played on the passing of meatloaf,,and Tina Turner
@@debthecpn Yes. I am European too.
When the Brits do memorials, we do not do it by halves! A great man, his influence has continued even today, I as a Brit have a tear in my eye, as a US citizen you should be proud to shed a tear
I'll second that 😢
Me too I remember as a child shouting to my mum a man has died mum she came in and saw I was crying I didn't know who he was but it made me sad I was 6 years of age xx
Yes, my mum was in tears too...@@lynjones2461
First of all let me say you are both very decent and good people, but what you said about being surprised other countries (particularly the UK) commentated so much about things outside of their own country tells us so much about American thinking and personality. The US is a very insular society, many of it's citizens know so little about the rest of the world.....but here in the UK, as with many other countries, this has not been the case.
Thats true, from hearing from other americans, and the conversations ive had. They are taught little in comparison, about other countries, some even lies! They're apparently taught their country is the best, everyone loves them or is jealous and wants to be them, everywhere else isnt as good, they are them, everything is about them, the world revolves around them etc etc. And thats terrible tbh if that is the case. I know to a degree it is, but it does make wonder. I know their education system isnt great, especially when it comes to learning about the rest of the worlds history and goegraphy, that is evident in discussions ive had about peoples knowledge of the rest of the world, quite sad really.
What you have to appreciate is that America is a huge country, bordered by Canada to North and Mexico to the South. Whereas we in Europe we are neighbours with lots of countries.
@@robertheywood2553 "we in Europe"
Europe is not a country and is a very big place, for some reason your logic breaks down when you think that "we in Europe" are neighbours, when some countries are over a thousand miles apart.
I think this is yet another demonstration of why the Queen was so respected around the world as well.
She was simply a remarkable woman
I am British, 13 years old and in a Maltese convent school when the news broke. We were sent home and the island went into mourning. I remember it vividly. The world would be in a better place if he had lived.
So true!
I'm a Brit and was 7 years old at the time of JFK's assassination. The TV programmes were interrupted to announce the news.
I remember the day it happened, everyone was shocked by the assassination. We only had black and white television back then, and that winter of 1963 was fierce. I remember that he was well respected in Britain and for how he handled the Cuban missile crisis. He was the last president to serve before America finally went fully loopy. To my generation of Britons, somebody getting shot like that was truly disturbing .
Mad?@SmearCampaignUK
They have come a long way from individual freedoms as expoused by Kennedy.
Now authority has the right to invade your privacy and emails, control your thinking and sold them out to the corporations and military industrial complex.
I admire Kennedy because of Cuba but more so because "he" moved US nukes from Turkey, enabling Peace to be kept. He opened dialogue with the Russians for betterment of all.
And he ultimately paid the price, a Dove was not wanted.
Although I just about remember JFKs assassination I really remember Robert's assassination. My mother remarried on 1st June 1968 and I went to stay with my godfather on the south coast. It was a hot sunny day and we were in the back garden when his death was announced
I remember it well too. But the harsh Winter Weather in the UK was began Xmas 1962 through Jan , Feb, March of 1963 an£ JFK was assassinated in Nov 1963 .... different Winter.
@pamelsims2068 In my area, we had severe gales in 1962 that blew down walls, chimney stacks and television areals. 1963 was an even more severe winter with extremely severe snowfall. In 1962, my neighbourhood looked as though it had been bombed as bricks and other debris lay all around.
I meant to add that this was why people everywhere were devastated when he was gunned down and their hope was destroyed.
Politicians have a lot to learn from JFK speeches, i guess the impact worldwide was felt because we all recognise a decent human being when we see one, a bit like our late Queen Elizabeth II.
You mean having affairs and using women to as couriers for the mafia?
@@Gambit771Trump?
How do you know she was a decent human being? Because she had a great PR team?
@@roppa789 JFK.
Look it up. I know it'll shatter the murican propaganda that clearly works on you but if you think those things are bad when trump does it (when did he use a woman as a mule for the mafia?) Them you must think it is wrong when JFK does it if not for your own integrity.
@@SeeDaRipper... Exactly the same point I'm making about JFK.
The Brits do things with class. With present times and present government, sadly, this may not continue to be the case.
😢 The truth of your comment is heartbreaking
I dont think so because the UKs Foreign policy is still determined by the US via NATO.
@@lesleyriseam1282 Please work on your IQ
@@lesleyriseam1282 NATO does not determine any member state's foreign policy, nor does the US.
@@lesleyriseam1282 You haven't got a clue have you. Fortunately this memorial was for a good American and not one with a small brain and a big mouth. So the US is the big boss of the UK and NATO? You confuse size with ability and your arrogance casts a shadow of shame upon your country. JFK was the very opposite of people like you in every way. That's why we honour him.
I think his words are more true today than ever. It’s a powerful message
I'm A brit my grandad loved him and constantly talked about him it was what he represented his honesty and his ability to not back down in crisis ( Cuban missile crisis) he represented freedom
Interestingly, the boundary of the American acre is marked by a ha ha, so there is no apparent barrier between the US and the UK.
The hawthorn tree being symbolic comes from the legend that all English thorn trees are descended from a staff planted by Joseph of Arimathea.
Joseph of Arimathea planted the Glastonbury thorn, it is different to a normal hawthorn in that it twice per year. Christmas and may
@@TELBOYO10 .
A popular legend no doubt fostered at the time as a way of attracting pilgrims and hence an income to the abbey. Much like many claimed relics.
The story is just a piece of folklore with no actual evidence, often continued with a money making purpose.
The tree is a subspecies of the common hawthorn.
As an Englishman, I feel honoured to have a memorial to such a great man in my country. J.F.K. was the American President who was revered by the World, a true Leader one impossible to emulate today!
That's a place I aspire to visit one day. It's a tangible expression of the honour with which many in the UK treasure the memory of JFK (may he rest in peace). I have had the enormous privilege of paying my respects at his grave in Arlington.
I was a toddler when he was murdered, and one of my earliest memories is of crying in the kitchen with my mum when the news came on the radio. JFK was a sign of hope whose light shone so brightly, and his loss was globally felt.
(Edit: typo)
Why? What did he do for the UK?
@@Gambit771 He offered a hope of a new world order, where US power would be used to actively build peace and justice in cooperation with other countries. To a population still enduring post-war austerity, a population which still had fresh memories of the depth of evil that can result when a nation seeks only to compete with, and exploit, other countries, that was a truly radiant hope.
His election, him being a Catholic, was also interpreted by many here as evidence the USA had grown out of an unbreakable WASP ascendancy, and was entering an era in which oppressive barriers between religions, races, and genders might be overcome with reconciliation and honour.
As a 12 year old in 1963 Kennedy was highly thought of in the UK. It was a shock when he died.
What an moving tribute to JFK so fitting it's at Runnymede where the Magna carta was signed 😊.
This is a few kilometres away from Windsor. There is a fantastic statue of a table and 12 chairs at Runnymede to represent the Magna Carta.
If you like learning about these kinds of historical links between the UK and US you should look at the battle of Bamber bridge. It's a hard watch for an American but well worth checking out.
One of my favourite stories from the war as it really highlights the cultural differences between the two countries at the time
Just read it,. I see why it'd be a hard read for our American friends.
I’d humbly suggest that the still-as-yet-unnamed next aircraft carrier the US Navy has ordered (CVN-82) should be named “USS William Crossland” as a gesture of contrition.
@teelaprincessofparrots3808 - We've never had racial segregation in Britain and the American Army tried to enforce it amongst their soldiers in a village Pub.
JFK was one of those statesmen; who was a unifying, compassionate figure was dedicated to serving his country and his people. A genuine, and hard working individual. Yes 1215, King John (Lackland) had his power curtailed, and had restrictions on what he could do and what wouldn't be allowed to stand
I was 14 when John Kennedy was assassinated. He was incredibly well thought of in Britain. Remember it wasn’t all that long after the war and Britain (well most of Britain) felt great gratitude for the immense USA help. Kennedy was seen as an extension of that relationship. One wonders what he would have achieved if he hadn’t been cut down so young. I think it’s a bit of a shame the memorial is not better known and better maintained.
You’d have to parachute into it of course if you are to visit without touching British soil.
Gratitude? We paid them and they betrayed us and was worse for the UK after ww2 than the Germans were during.
And you'd need a helicopter to leave.
In fact, I wonder if you could do that, helicopter from the memorial to new York.
With in air refueling obviously.
Our address is John Kennedy Drive here in Scotland. There used to be a US Naval base near us and some of the houses for married personnel were here.
I used to live near there and always found it was a very touching memorial. There is a monument to Magna Carta nearby which was put there by the American Bar Association, which shows how important that document is to British and American history. There is a very strong bond between our two nations.
I love this because although commermorating and American it is still very British and understated. With some memorials you can overwhelmed by their graduer and forget the symbilism. This was very well thoughtout in sutble ways to reprsent everything about America and JFK himself. I love the touch of the tree cross the pather as you approah forcing you to bow slitghty in respect to a great man.
Yeah, the details are quite amazing!
I remember how we found out - I was 7 and sitting with my parents watching the TV which suddenly went black (in the middle of Emergency Ward 10 - a UK 1960’s medical drama) and a solemn BBC announcer suddenly telling the audience that JFK had just been assassinated. The BBC stayed off the air apart from commentary on his life and assassination for the rest of the night.
My Mum was watching Wagon Train on tv when they interrupted the programme to bring the news on the assignation. This was in rural England ,nearly every body i know of that era knows exactly what they were doing when they heard the news. It was horrific news in those day unlike today it would just be run of the mill but then you couldn't escape it, the papers were full of it for weeks then there was stories about Oswald etc never ending ...
I wasn't around when JFK was assassinated but I remember being taught about it at school. He was such a striking figure that enpowered the belief of freedom and democracy, and his assassination taught me that we can't allow our freedoms and democratic rights to ever be taken away from us.
Funny that but Americans and us british live in a police state 😂, anpr cameras, politicians and parties that are the same, freedom of speech and expression shut down.
This is something Americans have forgotten, YOUR HISTORY IS WHO YOU ARE. Not your genetics, your history. Dont let them deny, rewrite, reject or hide it. Good and bad its degines YOU and teaches you when you have done wrong to enable YOU to learn from it. Everything that happens should ge remembered so that the bad doesnt happen again. Its not judgement, its awareness, its not bad to remember both good and the bad, its nevessary to become better than you were.
Absolutely agree with that statement! As the saying goes: those who don't know history, are destined to repeat it.
@@reactingtomyroots Santayana... Too often people let others pervert or destroy history because THEY feel offended by it. All they're doing is creating the potential in the future to recreate it...
Those who want too, first have to remove it from societies consciousness, only then can they do the unthinkable again...
Birmingham, UK, has a large Irish population. After the assassination, money was raised by the community to create a memorial near the city's Catholic Cathedral of St Chad. 10 years ago, this was recreated in the Irish Quarter following redevelopment of the original site. The memorial consists of a large mosaic with Kennedy at the centre. When I was a child, the original site was almost like a place of pilgrimage, and I can remember flowers being left there by many people.
So the irish were as brainwashed by murican propaganda as the British were.
This isn't another case of the irish desperately claiming someone as their own (when they would normally mock that person for falsly claiming to be irish) like they have with English biden.
I was in a little pub in Cornwall. They had tv on and programme was interupted for news bulletin. I was a great admirer of Kennedy and just cried. Tears in my eyes this morning as I watched you. What a man he was..A good man!
I live in New Ross, where his family emigrated from ,we have a massive arboretum dedicated JFK ...over 600 acres ,it is a stunning parkland .
Yes, been there
I think JFK was a man that gave us younger people ( I was in my early 20s) hope and courage that we would see an end to one nation's aggression against another. My grandfathers and my father had been involved in two world wards that destroyed so many lives.
JFK was a man of strength and determination. Many of us in the UK were horrified at his murder and deeply mourned the loss. Certainly the world would be very different should he have lived.
I remember this happening and it was a massive shock to this country, I remember we went into morning as if our head of state had died he was much admired
I was only 6 when he was killed but I clearly remember my Mums reaction. The whole family was in tears. He stood for everything we hoped for in the future, and his death was totally shocking to everyone.
I was around in 63. It was a great shock. He was a young progressive President & this was just 10 yrs after our new Queen was crowned. It makes you wonder how dangerous life is.
There have been many tales & stories as to whether he was actually doing good due to his family links! Well never know.
I was 5 years old when JFK was killed and I still remember loads of adults around me in tears when the news came through of the assassination. I live in the south of the UK.
Ive seen the kennedy aboritiem and his memorial also his family cottage whilst on holiday in wexford. Bit before my time though im a 81 baby
I studied at Royal Holloway College, University of London, their Kingswood Hall is a short walk away. There is the RAF memorial close by and the site where Magna Carts was signed Runnymede meadow.
Sophia is so lucky to have you are parents, she is going to learn so much more than she will ever learn from school curriculum. I love watching your channel ,because you are teaching me about my British History that I was never taught
Appreciate the kind words! I'm glad we're all learning together :)
I remember coming home and watching the news on tv, reporting JFKs assassination. I was 13 at the time and am not afraid to admit that it shocked me to the core. The sadness for the man and the loss to his family were deep! The news affected everyone in the U.K. We all mourned him. R.I.P.
Do you not know the family lived in Britain during JFK's formative years, his father was US ambassador to the UK, his sister, Kathleen married the heir to the Duke of Devonshire (sadly she died tragically in a plane crash) their links were strong here 😢
No, had no idea about that! Thanks for the insight :)
@reactingtomyroots to be honest, I've always had a fascination with the Kennedy's & the Fitzgerald's they are as fascinating, more so even, than any of our political dynasties xx
Joseph Kennedy hated Britain and the British with a passion.
@@kumasenlac5504 JFK didn't
Hi Lindsey …Steve .I was 16 when JFK was killed and remember the exact spot I was in when hearing the news .My wife and I have visited this memorial a moving place.We have also visited not far from where we live the America Cemetery Cambridge a remarkable place for the fallen American servicemen of the Second W W. Well worth a look into.Happy New Year from the both of us.
Thanks much, and the same to you and your wife! Appreciate you watching :)
President Kennedy was killed 6 months after I was born. Much of what I know about him I have learned by studying and watching news reels. However, and you may not believe this, though true, I was sat in front of the television when the news of his shooting came across. My mother immediately tried to close the television, but every time she did I started to scream, it appears, my mother decided to leave it on. She was sitting next to me when his death was announced, then shortly, the whole family gathered round. I also watched his funeral, on TV with my mother and grandmother. His words persisted to impact my childhood as that of his brothers, and while she was alive First Lady Mrs. Kennedy. America was very different back then, some not so good, but mostly good. I did not remember about this memorial. How beautiful. Thank you for airing it. Peace
I was 7 years old when John was assassinated. My parents spoke well of him and believed in his future for the World. When Bobby was assassinated, i cried for him
Very felt in uk,my late parents,like many worldwide, remembered where they were when they heard the news.That was the week that was-the uk's leading satire show-devoted a whole edition to JFK that week (this show,unlike the norm,was a sombre affair,without the usual laughter)...He was much loved here in uk and seen as the embodiment of a new hope for the west🎩
You're right when you say that it must be a beautiful place. It isn't necessarily a peaceful one though as its less than 5 miles from London's Heathrow airport and there can be a lot of planes flying overhead depending on the wind direction. Also, there are several other memorials in the area including one to Magna Carta which was installed by the American Bar Association and the Air Forces Memorial which bears the names of every member of British and Commonwealth air forces in World War 2 who lost their lives in northern and western Europe and for whom there is no other gravestone or memorial. It has over 20,000 names on it in total. The Reference to Battersea on Google Maps is due to Battersea Dogs and Cats home having a rehoming centre there. Also nearby is the location of the last ever duel to take place in the UK, an event which is mentioned in passing in the novel of Les Misérables. In case you're wondering, yes I do live nearby to have this much local knowledge.
It is both beautiful and peaceful, the odd jumbo flying over Eton isn't a distraction, I grew up in the green and spent most of my childhood up on coopers hill or down Runnymede, you don't hear a sound when you're at either place, you're just there, my late brother and I spent countless summer afternoons reading the names of the fallen and the countries they came from before going up to the viewing area and looking down over Runnymede and onwards to Windsor, you talk too much steve
Fun fact.. Its currently flooded here today. I live really close to this and my friend works even closer.
The Thames have burst it's banks and there's a couple (I think) of small rivers/streams in the area too that often flood due to how level they are with the surroundings.
Much of JFK’s appeal internationally stems from him having the muscle and the sheer brass balls to stand up to the Russians, who were a much bigger deal back then than they are now. Also he set NASA on the path to the moon landings, which fired the imagination of the entire world.
I was fifteen when JFK was assassinated. We were in the cinema and they flash the message on the screen. It was such a shock to everyone.
JFK Was a much loved President here in the UK, a Peoples President. I was 8 years old when he was assassinated and remember coming home from School seeing my Mother crying as she watched the news on the TV. He was so special and loved by so many he will never be replaced by anyone, If we had a one World Government, he would have been the only Man who would be trusted enough to run the whole World.
That's what happens with me mum picked me up from school I was 6 and she was crying I asked and she said President Kennedy had been killed
This was amazing, embarrssed to say I never knew about this memorial, don’t live too far from, absolutely will visit now..Thanks for sharing..
I live less than a mile away from the memorial- in Old Windsor - just a stones throw from Windsor Castle/ so much to see as a visitor.
He came across as a sane and foreward thinking man who was not unaware that there were other countries in the world
Fantastic video what a man jfk , god save America,the uk stand by you side by side ❤
Sometimes we get stuff so right, bearing in mind we do have a almost family like relationship with the US. And like any family we tease, joke even insult and disagree with each other but it’s never done as a daggers drawn serious thing. ( we do tend to do those things with the folk we like/ love) you can tell we we really don’t like someone we become incredibly polite and formal.
Thank you so much for this. I'm American and was in the 6th grade when Kennedy was assassinated. They let us go into the gym and watch TV as events unfolded. Teachers were weeping, and they finally dismissed school early. I wept along with Lindsay just now. Great video.
In 1963 I was an apprentice and a like a lot of teenagers we listened to Radio Luxembourg which played pop music in the evenings.We couldn't work out why they were playing classical music on this day and it wasn't until the first break they announced the assassination of JFK as as a mark of respect there would be no pop music played that night.I think nearly everybody knew of JFK regardless of age and followed his presidency and its ups and downs.I think all the UK broadcast stations did something similar.Radio Luxembourg was the first unofficial radio station that had advertisers for funding and so was illegal to listen to in the UK which is why it was operating from Luxembourg,a small country near France,which broadcast pop music with British DJ's and advertisers and was mainly listened to by UK teenagers,there was no BBC option.This let to the off shore stations which broadcast from off the 3 mile limit British waters.The Government closed them down by making it impossible to advertise on them although Radio Caroline ignored this.This led to the BBC opening a pop music station which used some of the pirate DJ''s but it was a poor copy of the pirates.
This just goes to show, the high esteem that our country has for The United States. I think JFK Would have gone on to do great things if he had not been sadly killed. Steve, another good one is when the late Queen Elizabeth 2nd got The Royal Guards at Windsor Castle to play The Star Spangled Banner at The Changing Of The Guard Ceremony on The 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Steve and Lindsay, I had to post this message after watching a magnificent CZcams video of St. Ives, Cornwall. The 20-minute video is under the heading: “Floating In Cornish Skies”. A must watch!!!
I'm 71 and I remember a newsflash coming on the television saying that Kennedy had been shot. We were shocked and I'm sure it was the same around the world.
Love your comment about dates and history. I volunteer as a guide at Avebury Manor an English Manor House in Avebury Wiltshire. We are a National Trust property and the ethos here is that dates come second, stories and experience teach more. We encourage children to dress up in period costume, learn the reason why furniture etc. is designed as it is etc..., the dates and history are all there to be had as well, but students particularly prefer a hands on approach. There are You Tube Vids about Avebury (largest stone circle in Europe). Enjoy your reactions good wishes.
Love that sentiment! Hands on learning is best :) We'll definitely have to look more into Avebury
I must add more. Kennedy was extremely significant in Britain. We were all on tenterhooks about the Cuban missile crisis at that time and frankly most of the people I knew expected it would start world war 3. Thankfully it didn’t. At the time we felt that he was the right man to have his finger on the trigger!!!
There are some British people who like to play it down, but since the coming of the movies and then TV the USA has had a tremendous influence on life in Britain and that was particularly so until the early to mid sixties when Britain found an identity again and for a while it was cool to be British and the USA influence waned. However we still watch American films and TV programmes(Personally I never Watch European TV or films!!) and our cultures are inextricably linked. There are certain Brits who don’t like that but I’ve always put that down to a kind of jealousy and envy. I expect this will start a storm of adverse comments but it’s true. Like it or not!!!
I love America and the things it has bought to my country britain
The influence of murican media has destroyed the British identity.
Britain never lost it until then so how can you say copying yanks is giving us an identity and doing our thing is losing it?
I remember my parents talking about that crisis and said it was really unnerving at that time! I was 5! I had an idea something was going on but not what! I know they later on said the same about WW3!
Rather scary but not generally known at the time of the Cuba missile crisis, some US generals did have the authority to launch a nuclear strike.
The Cuban missile crisis is not one I want to remember, thankfully Russia stepped down on the Monday morning but not before my father told me we would not survive a third world war.
President J.F Kennedys Sister is Buried at the Duke of Devonshire Estate at Chatsworth House Derbyshire England 🇬🇧. She Married a Cavendish. A very old Family and extremely Rich .
Kennedy was different. His death broke us here in the UK. HM Queen Elizabeth had so much respect for him and his values.
Rest easy John and Robert. You were changing the world and we loved you for it. Much love from your Scottish family ❤
There’s also a memorial statue to Abraham Lincoln in Calton cemetery Edinburgh, it features him and a freed slave , and remembers the Scottish soldiers who fought beside him
JFK and our Queen, got on great together. That endeared him to the British a little too.
JFK didn't just promise things, he did his level best to deliver. We respect that. I was helping set up the school jumble sale with my mum and the PTA mums when they got the news. Tears were shed and they all stopped and we stood in silence. I was 10. I didn't understand what had happened, but I remember my Dad saying there was no hope for the world if good men like the President weren't safe.
JFK's father was ambassador to Britain. One of JFK's sisters, Kathleen Kennedy is buried in Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England. She signed up to work for the Red Cross while in England and never wanted to move back to the US. She married Lord Hartington (Marquess of Hartington), heir apparent to the 10th Duke of Devonshire in 1944 and she became Kathleen Agnes Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington. Sadly, he was killed on active service in Belgium just four months later. Kathleen herself sadly died in a plane crash in 1948 at the age of 28 while flying to the south of France while on vacation with her new partner, the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam. The curse of the Kennedys.
I was 10 and living at home in Grangemouth, Scotland when Kennedy was assassinated. I remember well the devastation we all felt.
We felt crushed.
In school we were taught much about kennedy and his ideals. He truly was one of the greatest leaders in modern history. He may not have been perfect but he worked for rhe common good of virtually all peoples. One can only imagine how different the world would be if he had survived.
22nd November 1963 is stamped on my brain and heart as it was 6 days after I married my Forces boyfriend at the tender age of 16 years! I first heard the news of the assassination on the radio but then watched the facts and pictures unfurl in black and white on the television. I think the initial appeal of John Kennedy was his youthful good looks and his equally beautiful wife Jacqueline but he earned the respect of the world for standing up to Khrushchev and the might of the (then) USSR. It made international news because a President had been assassinated - but in this instance he was a much admired President. I loved History at school because my teacher explained that 'history isn't about dates; it's about the PEOPLE who create history on those dates'.
and the monument is just a few miles from Windsor castle
I think folk only know who they are by knowing where they come from , I think that's what you two are doing, me too, and it's brilliant for our children to know ❤🎉
I'm old enough to remember the death of John Kennedy, being 14 at the time. It was a huge shock for us over here in the UK as he was greatly respected. During his time in office he had forged a close relationship with PM Harold Macmillian despite there being a large difference in their ages and backgrounds. The feeling was that the world had lost a true statesman.
I was a little 6 year old boy living in Edinburgh and remember coming home from school with my big sister and was shocked to find my mother watching tv and sobbing uncontrollably, It was the first time I had ever seen her cry. I didn't have a clue what was happening, panicked and joined in.
JFK once lived next door but one to the Iranian Embassy in London for a short time when his Dad was US Ambassador before it was the Embassy, this was made famous by the SAS in 1980, his Sister also lived there and is buried in the UK.
I remember sitting watching TV when I was 4yrs old and the programme being interrupted for the News of JFK'S assassination and I remember there was a lot of outpouring of grief here in Scotland but being so young I didn't understand it all. The Kennedy's celebrated their Irish roots and probably still do. Happy New Year and the best of luck for 2024. ❤️🏴
Spooky but I live 1 mile from the memorial and work 50ft away from the US Embassy.
Well worth a visit to the memorial and Magna Carta site. They have added a ring of thrones nearby as a way of showing who was at the Magna Carta signing.
Would add that it is not in the middle of the countryside, it is in open land around Egham on side of the Thames but is built up within a mile or two.
RAF Mildenhall was where the Blackbird SR71 was based in the UK, as a kid we used to see it fly over to come into land as the base was around 40 miles away.
Thank you for showing this wonderful video. I live about 20 miles away from this memorial and had no idea it was there. I will try and visit it now I know it's there.I have no memory of the time he was killed as I was only 3 at the time but I seem to have always known about it.
Enjoyed your reaction to this stunning appreciation to a great man, like all men he had flaws but this shows the gratitude to his efforts to make our world a far better world. My wife and I visited the site about 10 years ago and the walk to the gates was designed to be an effort and once you pass through the gates it takes on a mystical eerie yet somber quest to the tree where you must bow to pass as to your right it does slope down so you have to stay on the path. All designed with so much thought and presented in a beautiful and humble way .
He was respected as a President and a world leader and we had big hopes for him.
JFK took on Khrushchev (the then USSR President and won) read the Cuban Missile Crisis. The whole world was waiting for the standoff to play out. For that reason alone we remember him.
I was 3 yrs old but I clearly remember my mum crying when the news came on the t.v.
Great video, I live in the South East of the UK and ive never herd of this memorial to JFK
Just as a sideline, there's a part of Canada in France at Vimy Ridge.
I was 5 it came on TV as breaking news my mum cried and my dad was stunned. Britian mourned his loss ,as we did for those on 9/11
His sister Kathleen is buried in a English cemetery at a place called Edensor on the estate of Chatsworth in Derbyshire. There is a plaque on the grave stating that JFK came to visit the grave in 1963 . Edensor is a very small beautiful village probably less than a mile from Chatsworth House but on the vast Estate. Kathleen was married to the Marquess of Hartington. According to her gravestone she was born 1920 and passed away 1948 . I have visited the grave twice recently and the first time someone had placed a One Dollar Bill with a small paper American flag poked through it to prevent it blowing away at the base of the headstone but the second time i went , only a few weeks later , the flag was still there but the Dollar was missing.
It's the only piece of land owned by the US in the UK...not even the land the US embassy is on belongs to the US...also the memorial has 50 steps to it, denoting the 50 states...also there is a branch across the path just before the memorial so you have to bow just before it and then a garden of remembrance with seating looking towards runnymede and the signing of the Magna Carta ...the Queen and her staff really thought this one out ...also remember JFK's sister is buried in the UK...❤
My wife (who is from from the USA) and I visited this site last week. Very special place. Peace
I was a young child when he died and I cried. I used to love listening to and watching him on our little black and white tv. Although I was very young (I was 6 I think) and in no way political he made much sense to me and I thought he had a kind face. I was so upset. Yes in the UK we took note of JFK very much so.
A great video as usual guy's, but please correct with things being shown in reverse....seeing the UK map behind you in reverse is so odd.
It's my belief that if Kennedy had lived the present state of the US and the rest of the western democracies would not have come about and that the Kennedys were slain by those with vested interests.
I think JFK is so revered in the UK as he was the embodiment of fair play and goodness which is a trait that we strive for in the UK!
I'm in U.K and I remember this clearly, I was 9yrs old watching T.V on my own and a news flash came on, I was shocked and ran to the next room to tell my parents, I still remember that day, even though I was an English kid, so very sad
It was one of those moments about which one can say, sixty years later, "I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news". JFK also was proud of his Irish roots, which endeared him to the UK
My dad was in the army and back in the 80s we used to go to the American air base to play 10 pin bowling as we didn’t have that in the U.K. in any real form - used to be a super fun outing