Living History on SDMB...November 22, 1963

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This thread explains what we’re doing. In a nutshell, we’re taking a key moment in history and posting as if it were happening live.

We’re going to try to keep this “in the moment” as it were, so try not to apply 20/20 hindsight to the situation. Anybody old enough to have experienced the event is encouraged to post, to keep us straight and to share their memories of the event.

If this goes well, we’ll explore other key moments in history.

To that end…ahem. November 22, 1963:

Is anyone watching the news? It looks like someone shot at President Kennedy’s motorcade!

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My god, that was horrible. Who would do this? Where were they shooting from? Is Jackie ok, she was covered in blood too?

Crap, I betcha you was the commies.

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It does not look good, I think the gunman got Governor Connolly too. Was anyone else hit?

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Jackie was crawling out of the back of the car…how many shots was it?

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Wow! Just wow! What was going through Jack Ruby’s mind when he shot Oswald? Now we’ll never know if Oswald did it, acted alone or what! This is just awful!

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I can’t get this on any Dallas newspaper or radio station web site. The DarpaNet is slowing down.

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Mom, my diaper needs changng…

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Who’s Oswald, swampbear?

Is the governor dead? What about Jackie?

Does anyone know where they’re taking the President?

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Damn – that means that crafty Texan LBJ is going to be president. I guess that means the end of any kind of progressive reform.

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What about the VP? :eek:

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Walter Kronkite is on. He says the President is dead. :frowning:

Poor Jackie. Those poor kids. I am stunned. Do you think Castro is behind this?

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Well, he’s from Texas, and the shooting was in Texas, so perhaps he or one of his buddies arranged for this to happen

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God, this is terrible. I just heard the news on the radio… What’s going to happen next?

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People were watching the TV’s in the windows at Bay Bloor Radio when I got off the Bloor streetcar. This is… not good.

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On NBC all the reporters are clustered around a telephone. They’re talking to a guy named Robert MacNeil at Parkland Hospital

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Damn, that new Chrysler with the push-button transmission is a fine looking machine. Push-button! It’s the wave of the future. Now if I could just get some music on this radio. All the stations sound like they are just doing news breaks.

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Castro, Castro is a pimp, I think it was Khrushchev.

I think I saw Mr. Kronkite crying, I have never seen him break like that before. Do they have any leads yet? Did anyone or groups claim responsibility?

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Damn.

Just… damn.

I don’t care what your politics are. This is a HORRIBLE day for America.

I really hope they catch the bastard who did this.

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Khrushchev? I don’t think the Soviets are capable of doing something like this: they can’t even feed their own people, and used up a lot of their resources getting Yuri Gagarin into space. I think it’s more likely to be the CIA or the FBI.

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I had Kennedy & C.S. Lewis & Aldonis Huxley in the Deathpool. 121 points for me!

Oh yeah, I’m very sad too.