November 22, 1963
That day in history, President John F Kennedy was assassinated.
And the first our nation heard it was mid-day when normal broadcasts were interrupted.
https://youtu.be/6PXORQE5-CY?si=yLqjLhWdUab58saf
The JFK assassination was a shock to our nation as well as the world. And the news hit the peoples, on both side of the Atlantic, hard.
Our strongest ally overseas was the late Queen Elizabeth II. To pay her respects, the Queen bequeathed an acre of land of English soil near London in perpetuity to the American people:
The Kennedy Memorial.
This acre was in Runnymede Park where King John of England signed the Magna Carta over 800 years ago in 1215. That document was significant in that it limited the king's absolute power, establishing a precedent that even a king was not above the law. The act began a movement toward elected governments, universal rights, and freedom.
https://youtu.be/iQOZUaSoy90?si=O7Djv-PCcVp4FjbO
Later, England spawned America. Then in 1964, the longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, signed the JFK Memorial Act, which expanded the US global territory by one acre. Now a piece of America is encompassed by England.
How far it from the UK to the US?
Technically, one step.
But that's one giant step in good Anglo-American relations.
History
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