Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday in town will be cloudy in the morning, but sunny in the afternoon, with a high of twenty-eight. Sunrise is 6:56 and sunset 4:26, for 9h 29m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 84.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Friday’s FW poll asked readers how much snowfall they thought Whitewater would get over this weekend. We easily passed the ‘more than 6 inches’ choice (that 25% of respondents picked).
On this day in 1963, America experiences a tragic loss and a depressing statistic of her politics: Pres. Kennedy becomes the fourth U.S. president to be assassinated:
On this day in 1963, the nation is shocked by the assassination of its president, John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was riding in an open car in Dallas, Texas, when a gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at him from an upper-level window of a nearby building. Kennedy was pronounced dead upon arrival at a Dallas hospital. He was the fourth president in U.S. history to be assassinated….
In 1865, Abraham Lincoln became the first president to be assassinated when he was shot by a Confederate sympathizer while attending a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. In 1881, James Garfield was shot by a disgruntled federal employee and lived 80 days before succumbing to his wounds. William McKinley was killed by an anarchist in 1901. Several other presidents have survived or narrowly avoided assassination attempts. Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest in 1981, but survived. Gerald Ford escaped two assassination attempts. An attempt on Andrew Jackson’s life in 1835 was foiled when both of the gunman’s two pistols failed to discharge properly.
On this day in 1861, an advance into part of Virgina ends for the 4th Wisconsin:
1861 – (Civil War) Reconnaissance of Virginia’s eastern shore ends
The 4th Wisconsin Infantry completed the expedition into Accomac County, Virginia.
