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At the time of the assassination, I was finishing a PE class in my junior high school in Southern California when the teacher gave us the news. For the rest of the day, in my classes, we discussed the event as well as how presidential succession worked.

That evening, my Boy Scout troop left for a campout in Tonner Canyon in the Chino Hills east of Brea in Orange County. All through the weekend, rumors were filtering into the canyon--that the murder weapon was a Mauser with a British scope, etc. only after we got home did we hear the true story of what had happened.

The writer mentioned a song called "Chicken Fat"--a recording waxed by Broadway star Robert Preston and issued on the Chicken Fat label (CF 1000, 1961) you can listen to it here. Our elementary school district went whole hog for JFK's physical fitness program, and one teacher in the district actually used the record in her PE classes.

The writer also mentioned listening to Peter, Paul & Mary. Also working its way up the chart at the time was "Dominique," a musical oddity by Soeur Sourire, aka The Singing Nun. This French-language song, about the crusader and evangelist Domingo Félix de Guzmán, who fought in the thirteenth-century Albigensian Crusade, actually made it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and sat there for several weeks--an illustration as to how times have changed, as it would be considered highly politically incorrect today. You can hear it here

By the way, don't get me wrong--JFK is NOT one of my heroes.

The writer mentioned a song called "Chicken Fat"--

1950s MAD cartoonist Will Elder refered to all of the little details and inside jokes in his panels as "chicken fat".

Also working its way up the chart at the time was "Dominique," a musical oddity by Soeur Sourire, aka The Singing Nun. This French-language song, about the crusader and evangelist Domingo Félix de Guzmán, who fought in the thirteenth-century Albigensian Crusade, actually made it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and sat there for several weeks--an illustration as to how times have changed, as it would be considered highly politically incorrect today.

'Whatever became of...'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Nun

Deckers became increasingly critical of Catholic doctrines and eventually became a public advocate for contraception. She also agreed with John Lennon's statements about Jesus in 1966.[citation needed] In 1967, she recorded a song entitled "Glory Be to God for the Golden Pill" — a paean to artificial birth control under the name Luc Dominique. It was a commercial failure.
... In the late 1970s, the Belgian government claimed that she owed approximately $63,000 USD in back taxes.[2] Deckers countered that the royalties from her recording were given to the convent and therefore she was not liable for payment of any personal income taxes. Lacking any receipts to prove her donations to the convent and her religious order, Deckers ran into heavy financial problems. In 1982, she tried, once again as Sœur Sourire, to score a hit with a disco synthesizer version of "Dominique", but this last attempt to resume her singing career failed.
Citing their financial difficulties in a note, she and her companion of ten years, Anna Pécher, both committed suicide by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol on 29 March 1985.