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JFK ASSASSINATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY

In a surprising twist, the Afghan president says his country may postpone a security deal with the United States. Page a-3

a man who inspired generations

Ads boost mayor’s business Taos has spent $165,000 for ads on official’s radio stations during his tenure. Page B-1

Gross receipts tax revenues hit milestone

Santa Fe youth reflect on John F. Kennedy’s impact. geNeraTION NexT, C-1

August boom pushes city past prerecession levels for first time

Share your memories. Tell us where you were or what you remember from the day Kennedy died.

By Bruce Krasnow The New Mexican

Buoyed by August retail sales and construction, gross receipts tax revenues in the city have topped prerecession levels for the first time. While it might be tempting, don’t shout out, “The recession is over!” to Santa Fe City Councilor Carmichael Dominguez. “We are up $2.5 million from this time last year, but it’s so volatile, we don’t know what the long term is going to look like,” said Dominguez, who chairs the city Finance Committee. “It’s way too early to make any kinds of predictions or bold statements of any sources of revenue. We need to hold tight and keep a flat budget going into next year.” Dominguez has seen the numbers — a significant jump in gross receipts tax revenues for the first four months of the fiscal year and a booming August. “I’m optimistically cautious,” he said.

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President John F. Kennedy addresses Peace Corps staff members and other officials in Washington, D.C., on June 14, 1962. Kennedy first called on young Americans to help people in developing nations in October 1960. The Peace Corps was founded the following year, and since then, more than 210,000 individuals have answered the call. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

JFK’s legacy echoes 50 years after his death

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By Todd J. Gillman

The Dallas Morning News

Dems vote to curb filibusters on appointees By Alan Fram and David Espo

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Sweeping aside a century of precedent, Democrats took a chunk out of the Senate’s hallowed filibuster tradition Thursday and cleared the way for speedy confirmation of controversial appointments made by President Barack Obama and chief executives in the future. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who orchestrated the change, called the 52-48 vote a blow against gridlock. Republicans warned Democrats eventually will regret their actions once political fortunes are reversed and they can no longer block appointments made by a GOP president.

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Obituaries Jennifer Leeanna Martinez, 24, Nov. 18

Wild ride

Index

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Today Cold and snowy. High 35, low 26. Page a-8

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Peace Corps connects New Mexicans to JFK Participants view program as hallmark of presidency By Anne Constable The New Mexican

It was 50 years ago today, but John Turnbull, a newly minted geologist, remembers it like it was yesterday. He had just finished dinner, and he and some other Peace Corps volunteers were sitting around their house in Saltpond, a small community on the coast of Ghana,

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when they began picking up reports on their shortwave radio that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. Finally, around 11:30 that night, the BBC confirmed Kennedy’s death. Thousands of miles from home, they looked at one another. “We just didn’t know what to think,” Turnbull said recently. The following day, elders from the Ghanian community came to their house to express sympathy.

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Solemn events to mark assassination anniversary INSIde

By Jamie Stengle

The Associated Press

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Three Lobos hit 3-pointers to lift the 19th-ranked UNM men’s basketball team to a 97-94 victory over UAB in double overtime. SPOrTS, B-5

T Alan Burrus, third from left, meets the king of Tonga in 1967. Burrus was part of the first group of Peace Corps volunteers in Tonga. COURTESY PHOTO

Obama welcomes move long championed by Sen. Udall

WASHINGTON he presidency that ended in Dallas a half-century ago lasted just 34 months, hardly enough to make the mark John F. Kennedy had planned. He wrestled with racial strife and history’s most dire nuclear crisis. There were setbacks and achievements. He lived to see little of his domestic agenda enacted. By the usual yardsticks used to assess presidents, he falls short of greatness. Yet Kennedy’s impact cannot be measured in the usual ways alone. Americans landed on the moon within a decade after he conjured that mission. “Ask not what your country can do for you” may remain the most famous phrase uttered by a leader of the free world. Struck down in his prime, he remains as vigorous and charming as ever in the public mind, synonymous with both inspiration

and tragedy. After a halfcentury, actual deeds have melded with the gauzy, idealized image. “He really reached people in a way that they long for — or at least, they remember how good it felt when they longed for that kind of leadership,” said nephew Patrick Kennedy, a former congressman and son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. “The power of his legacy is how it resonates today. How his words carry through generations.” Historians rate Kennedy as a middling president. The public puts him on a pedestal with Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. His glowing image has survived tawdry revelations and bookshelves of critical reassessments. He paid for his sins and shortcomings, people say, in the way the dead are eulogized more with charity than accuracy. “The slate was wiped clean in Dallas,” said Larry Sabato, author of The Kennedy Half Century

DALLAS — Loose gatherings of the curious and conspiracy-minded at Dallas’ Dealey Plaza have marked past anniversaries of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, featuring everything from makeshift memorials to marching drummers to discussions about who else might have been in on the killing. But in the place where the president’s motorcade passed through and shots rang out on Nov. 22, 1963, a solemn ceremony on the 50th anniversary of his death designed to avoid such distractions will include brief remarks by the mayor and the tolling of church bells.

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u Santa Fe events include documentary screening, photo exhibit. Page a-4

It’s an approach that will be mirrored Friday in Boston, where the JFK Library and Museum will open a small exhibit of never-before-displayed items from Kennedy’s state funeral and host a musical tribute that will be closed to the public, and in Washington, where President Barack Obama will meet privately at the White House with leaders and volunteers from the Kennedyestablished Peace Corps program.

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Editor: Ray Rivera, 986-3033, rrivera@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Kristina Dunham, kdunham@sfnewmexican.com

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A photo of JFK and flowers sit Thursday on a plaque at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, near the site where the former president was killed in 1963. LM OTERO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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