Local View: JFK's visit to Duluth before assassination not his only time here

It was 63 years ago this month — on Nov. 22 to be precise — that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. A Friday in 1963, it falls on a Sunday this year. The date, like 9/11, is seared in the minds of nearly everyone who came of age at the time and others who have heard or learned about what happened or who have seen the Zapruder film depicting it in living — and dying — bloody color. Exactly 60 days before that earth-shattering event, JFK was in Duluth, one of the five occasions he came to Minnesota, including three times to the Northland. The president’s final appearance in Duluth consisted of his attendance at a multi-state water-conservation event on Sept. 24-25, 1963, a couple of months before his tragic trip to Dallas. He attended the 11-state Northern Great Lakes Region Land and People Conference on the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota to discuss environmental issues.

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