Saturday, November 23, 2013

Where Were You 50 Years Ago on November 22?

Where Were You Fifty Years Ago? Where were you The Day the Music Died? Where were you the day the President died? Where were you on the day that a telegenic, charismatic, youthful, but ineffectual, President, was assassinated? Where were you the day the New Frontier became the Great Society? Where were you the day that changed America? Where were you on the day that that the Presidency passed to a President, who could enact tax cuts and civil rights legislation? Where were you on the day that unleashed America’s greatest social change since the Great Depression? Where were you on the day Camelot died, but remained frozen in time? Where were you on the day America lost its post-Depression, post-World War II spirit of invincibility? Where were you on the day that the Democratic Party turned left? Where were you the day that liberals slimed Dallas and the Dallas oil barons with the assassination of President Kennedy? Where were you on the day that unleashed conspiracy theories on the United States? Where were you on the day that guaranteed the Vietnam War? Where were you on the day Pierre Salinger told his USF classmate that it would be great for American morale for the NFL to play its Sunday games? Where were you on the day the Dallas Police Force was not up the job? Where were you on the day when the afternoon teacher said: “I don’t care what the Supreme Court said. We need to pray?” Questions, questions, questions? We were going into gym when told the President was shot and then received the fatal news when gym was over.

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