text: Anniversary of JFK's assassination stirs quiet sadness - Portland Press Herald
  From Dallas to Dublin, governments and citizens pay tribute and people share memories of a day that changed them – and the world.
  John F. Kennedy High School students from left: Liliana Navarro, Mohamed Alamy, Norman Dela Fuente and Joseph Robles participate in a moment of silence in remembrance of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination 50 years ago, in Granada Hills, Calif., on Friday. The Associated Press
  Gov. Deval Patrick, right, and L. Scott Rice, Adjutant General of the Massachusetts National Guard, lay a wreath at the State House statue of President John F. Kennedy, Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, in Boston. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas 50 years ago today. AP Photo/Boston Herald, Mark Garfinkel
  Members of the audience pause for the final prayer during a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Friday at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. President Kennedy's motorcade was passing through Dealey Plaza when he was shot on Nov. 22, 1963. The Associated Press
  The U.S. Naval Academy Men's Glee Club sings the The Navy Hymn to close out the ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Friday in Dallas. President Kennedy's motorcade was passing through Dealey Plaza when shots rang out on Nov. 22, 1963. The Associated Press/ The Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox
  Attorney General Eric Holder, right, arrives to pay his respects at the grave of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death. Holder has been visiting the grave since his youth, and would visit there with his mother before she passed away. The Associated Press
  Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of President J.F. Kennedy lays a wreath at his memorial at Runnymede, England on Friday. A short ceremony took place at the JFK memorial which overlooks the site of the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. The Associated Press