Group gathers to commemorate death of JFK - Brookline, MA
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N 42° 20.753 W 071° 07.463
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JFK's birthplace and childhood home is located at 83 Beals Street, Brookline, MA 02446
Waymark Code: WMP4GP
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 06/29/2015
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On November 22, 2014, the Boston Globe (
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"Group gathers to commemorate death of JFK
By Melissa Hanson GLOBE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 22, 2014
A small group of students, locals, and tourists gathered this afternoon at the Brookline birthplace of John F. Kennedy to share memories of the former president on the 51st anniversary of his assassination.
National Park Service rangers and the Rev. Dr. Jim Sherblom of the First Parish in Brookline addressed the crowd of about 20 people with poems and stories about Kennedy and laid a wreath in his honor.
Belen Garau, a tourist from Spain, stood shivering outside the house on Beals Street. Garau said she has long been interested in Kennedy.
“I always found him charismatic,” said Garau, 41. “Jackie and him were a very charismatic couple.”
A wreath was placed at the former president’s birthplace in Brookline.
Garau recently visited Dallas, where she saw the site of Kennedy’s assassination. When she came to Boston to visit a friend, she discovered she would be near his birthplace on the day of the ceremony.
“I thought, ‘it’s a sign for me to come,’ ” Garau said.
The ceremony took a slightly different turn when the wreath arrived late. Instead of the wreath laying launching the event, it marked the end.
“It was a nice punctuation for the end of the ceremony,” said Myra Harrison, a NPS superintendent. “Maybe it will start a new tradition.'”