“I recall that day, that whole week vividly.”
I was 23 and in the Air Force at the time. I was/am a rock ribbed conservative/libertarian/republican and no fan of JFK but trust me an incident like this will rattle your cage for a long time. Whole nation came together...for the moment. But damned if the democrats didn’t immediately blame conservative (then) Dallas for it.
I remember that too. Somehow the city and people of Dallas were supposed to bear guilt for it.
Also Southern conservatives. They wouldn’t just come out and say it but would infer it with such ideas that they had created the atmosphere which allowed it to happen.
Also really went after mail order purchase of guns, ignoring that there was nothing to have kept Oswald from legally going into the local gun shop and buying one.
I was angered to read in one of the gun magazines where some writer had agreed that banning mail order sales was the right thing to do.