Living History on SDMB...November 22, 1963

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The CIA and the FBI would never do this to their own CIC. Khrushchev is fighting to destroy us at every turn. He is funding Reds to infiltrate us and funneling money to the more radical Unions. Why would the CIA want JFK dead?

It was either the Ruskies or a lone crazy.

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Poor Jackie. Was that blood on her outfit when Johnson was being sworn in? And why was a secretary swearing in Johnson? :confused: Coundn’t they find a judge?

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I think she is a judge. You know, the ladies don’t have to just be housewives, secretaries or librarians: they’ve been able to vote for 40 years now, and they are just as capable as men of being doctors or judges, or anything they want. Perhaps one day one will even be President: perhaps Mrs Kennedy could run in 1964 – after all, she’s popular enough.

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Dammit, those poor kids.

I have tickets to this weekend’s Bears-Steelers game. It’s sure to be cancelled now. :frowning:

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They’re now reporting they’ve captured someone.

Did anyone hear that?

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I was in third grade when this all went down, so I’m trying to write like I would have then.

I just got back to the playground, before school starts again. I go home for lunch, I live so close to the school. Hardly anyone is moving around, everyone’s talking. One girl, I don’t know her name, she has red hair, is saying the President was riding in his car when he got shot. The bell is ringing now, got to go inside.

The principal just left our room. He told us President Kennedy is dead. It looks like he wanted to cry, but he wasn’t, the same with Mrs. Huffman, our teacher. I didn’t know until just a while back that grownups cry, then I saw my grandmother crying at my great-grandmother’s funeral. Bradley Lillja, the boy at the desk next to mine, giggled. That’s stupid.

We get to watch the funeral today. I wonder how Mrs. Kennedy can stay so straight, she isn’t crying at all, the newspeople all seem to mention it.

I like horses, and they have horses pulling the coffin, and one behind the coffin. Mom explained to me that President Kennedy was in the Navy, and that’s why there’s a flag on his casket. And there are boots backwards in the stirrups of the horse, Mom said that’s an old custom for people who have been in the service.

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One of the second grade teachers just came into my fourth grade classroom and told us the President has been shot. I had her in second grade. She’s mean. I didn’t even know she knew how to be sad.

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OMFG!!! Did you hear what happened? I went to my Freshman Architecture class. There’s a guy in the class who’s always playing practical jokes, and he came in and said Kennedy’s been shot. So we all considered the source and said “Yeah, yeah,” and ignored him. Then a couple of more guys came in and said Kennedy’s been shot, and he’s dead. OMFG!!! Who the hell would do a thing like that? I mean, I’m not exactly a fan of Kennedy, but that’s a hell of a thing to do.

Classes have all been canceled, and there’s a guy in my rooming house who has a little tv in his room. We’ve all been glued to the set ever since Thursday. Now they’re showing the jail where they’re keeping Oswald. Lots of people milling around, mostly the Press. Now I think I can see Oswald. Yeah, they’re bringing him out to move him to another jail. He’s in cuffs, with a guy on each side.

Holy shit!! Some guy just walked right up and shot Oswald, right in the gut. Man, he just walked right up to him and shot him point blank. They wrestled the guy to the ground, yeah, they’ve got him, but Oswald doesn’t look so good. Lots of blood. I think he’s dead. Fuck, we all saw it right here on live tv. I can’t believe my eyes!