And all the pundits just *knew* it had to be a “right-winger” that killed JFK.
I was in the 10th grade and remember those years well.
Somehow the media blamed it on White Southerners and lack of gun control laws.
I was going to say that I don’t think many people even thought in terms such as Left or Right Wing back then.
Then I remembered The Daisy Girl TV ad in 1964.
I don’t recall seeing it that year, but heard about it much later.
In 1964, L. Johnson ran a commerical depicting a little girl counting daisies. After she counts out daisy petal number 9,
a male voice takes over to say “TEN!”
as the start of a missile launch countdown.
This was to warn people not to vote for Barry Goldwater, because, the ad implied Goldwater would push us toward Nuclear War.