Reply #14: I'm sure it did [View All]

[Dookus]

but I'll be 43 years old next week. Granted, I was only 2 when Kennedy was killed.

My point was that any "innocence" was an illusion, probably a willful one. Middle-class white Americans perhaps were "innocent", but everybody else was aware that America had always fallen short of the promises it made to all its citizens.

I believe that after WWII, and the relative peace and prosperity of the 50's (Korea being the big exception) that middle-class Americans might've gotten complacent. But if they were innocent, it was because they simply refused to look around.