But the greater significance of that day in Dallas – beyond the arguments about the grassy knoll and the Zapruder film – is the effect the killing had on how the Kennedy presidency would be viewed thereafter.
The noise echoed around all corners of the loch, where fans had positioned themselves on grassy knolls and by big screens along the latter stages, and even the swans moved aside for the beginning of the race.
The ascent is taxing, rising sharply through beech forest to the sudden treeline and bare grassy peaks above.
I do a little barefoot running after a run – in a grassy field for 10 or 15 minutes – to strengthen the bottoms of my feet and to focus on form.
As for Parliament House, Eve remembers it as a place where she and her friends would, after nights out as teenagers, roll down the grassy slopes under the tolerant eye of a lone security guard.
The fields of the North Pennines were cut for hay a while ago, but these grassy strips hold late-flowering plants – knapweed, scabious, betony – with nectar for bumblebees and butterflies.
That small number meant a loss of 42 minutes of sunshine on summer nights, on the basketball court and grassy knoll in the only multipurpose park in the neighbourhood.
Mitchell sprawls untidily across Canberra's grassy northern plain.
You'll soon find yourself surrounded by chalk downlands rolling to the horizon, interrupted here and there by grassy burial mounds, primitive forts and the occasional white horse cut into the escarpment.
Meadow pipits flew low along the grassy slopes above.
I clamber over a rickety stile into the sunshine, and find myself standing on the long, broad, grassy embankment of the ancient Roman road.
