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Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
Dallas, today 1963Waiting to see President Kennedy are Americans unaware of what has just taken place on the other side of the Triple Underpass, or that his Lincoln is now speeding to Parkland Hospital:
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doc03
(35,328 posts)was announced JFK was shot in 6th period Biology class.
They announced he was dead in 7th period Geometry class. I remember girls crying on the bus and Republican's kids said good riddance. They were crazy back then too.
There was painted on an overpass on I70 for years in Eastern Ohio "Vote White Vote Republican.
Nevilledog
(51,094 posts)LSparkle
(11,660 posts)I was a happy ebullient kindergartner until I saw every adult who had previously made me feel safe fall apart ... and saw death celebrated in a way that has affected my psyche ever since. The world is scary ... I became withdrawn and afraid and, yes, suicidal as I grew up.
How I wish that horrible day had never happened. Our country likewise has never been the same. 🥲
Arne
(2,012 posts)Just look at US now.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)And the thing I remember most was being upset that the Saturday morning cartoons werent on the next day. Had just turned 7. Remember the Life magazine article about Officer Tippett. And the Sunday paper having a color print of JFK suitable for framing.
For years afterward a billboard near me had, for a week or so every November, just the words November 22, 1963 on a black background.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)I thought it was bullshit, a rumor, and told them so.
Everyone calmed down.
And then someone turned on the radio.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)I was in 5th grade, sitting at a desk in the front of the classroom since I had um, misbehaved. The principal came in and said the president has been shot. Sent us all home. My dad came home and this was the first time I ever saw him cry. He and his family were from Boston. Just terrible...