The shots heard round the world.

50 years ago this week, shots were fired that were heard around the world.

At precisely 12:30 PM on Friday, November 22nd, President John F. Kennedy's life was abruptly and cruelly ended by three bullets fired from the rifle of Lee Harvey Oswald. 

The rest is well known history: the Warren report, the conspiracy theories that continue to abound, the Oliver Stone movie and the hundreds of books that have been written on the subject. The passage of half a century seems not to have dimmed the event in the public memory but rather caused it to attain the status of American folk lore 

Whether a lone gunman was responsible or, as many believe, there were others involved, we shall never know.

One thing is certain, as the Presidential motorcade wound slowly through the Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, John Kennedy had an appointment to fulfill that no police cordon or body-guards could prevent. Neither was it on his planned schedule.

He had an appointment to meet his Maker.

None of us can say what such a dread meeting entailed. The Bible simply states in Hebrews chapter 9:27:

"It is appointed once to die and AFTER death the judgment."

This being so, our own appointment is already entered into God's  date book.

The death of John F Kennedy teaches us all to so live our lives on earth that we will have no regrets when we ourselves are summoned to appear before the Highest Court in the universe.
Thank God we can have a counsel for our defense who will stand by our side. His Name is Jesus Christ and His services are free IF we avail ourselves of them.

In memory.

Ian