# Is this how people felt post-JFK? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 13, 2016, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-how-people-felt-post-jfk/771786 "2016-11-13T08:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-how-people-felt-post-jfk/771786/41 "2016-11-16T04:01:46Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > I said to my friend on Wednesday “now I know how people felt immediately after JFK was killed.” No, you don’t. Not even close. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-how-people-felt-post-jfk/771786/42 "2016-11-16T07:35:56Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > This pretty much sums up how I felt. If Johnson hadn’t escalated in Viet Nam, we would be looking on him as one of the greatest for his role in civil rights. And it would have saved us from Tricky Dick. Even he wasn’t as big a shock as the Trumpster. He had been a senator and VP and understood how things worked. He was done in by his paranoia. Not the worst president by far, despite his slime. > > My first reaction to the assassination was utter shock. But I didn’t view Johnson with much misgiving. He was quick to take the oath of office aboard Air Force One, barely two hours after JFK’s death, to reassure the country about the continuing stability of the government ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-how-people-felt-post-jfk/771786/43 "2016-11-16T07:47:19Z")
I certainly begin to understand my (born in 1909) father’s complete bewilderment at all the social changes of the 1960s and 1970s and the collapse of all the old certainties. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-how-people-felt-post-jfk/771786/44 "2016-11-16T17:04:21Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > No, you don’t. Not even close. I do want to reiterate that I was not asking about the immediate aftermath; I was asking about from Tuesday morning on, going forward. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-how-people-felt-post-jfk/771786/45 "2016-11-16T17:40:11Z")
Actually no. I was young (16) but I knew that Johnson was 10 times the politician JFK was and would have a far better chance as President of getting civil rights legislation past the Southern diehards in the Senate. And that’s just how it turned out. ---
**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-how-people-felt-post-jfk/771786/46 "2016-11-16T17:57:57Z")
For me it was the 68-69 period. Losing MLK and RFK, Going from Woodstock to Altamont, Nixon, Democratic National Convention riots. Cumulative, but the same “dark and unknown period ahead” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-how-people-felt-post-jfk/771786/47 "2016-11-16T18:26:51Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Again, I am not a Trump supporter but I am a SDMB member. **We are supposed to stand for rationality and reason.** But rationality and reason, even haphazardly applied, lead to the inescapable conclusion that the narrative of Hillary-Clinton-as-Boogieman has always been an urban legend. To see it accepted by a slice of the electorate large enough to take even a single electoral vote, let alone the majority, is as shocking as finding out that more than half of the populace believes the moon landings were faked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-how-people-felt-post-jfk/771786.md?page=2)