Posted on 11/22/2025 5:05:28 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
As The World Turns" was airing on CBS the afternoon of November 22, 1963, when Walter Cronkite broke in to tell the nation that President Kennedy had been shot. Coverage then went back to the soap opera, but not for long. Charles Osgood reports on how America learned of the shooting of a president.
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That’s because it was Dallas...still a conservative area at the time in 1963.
A sad sad day for the United States of America.
That’s wild. Somehow, I don’t feel like someone born before 1900 would have felt in 1963 though.
Possibly misreporting of the JD Tippet shooting.
And President Hoover was still alive. IIRC Kennedy’s funeral was easier to plan as the Defense Department had been holding practices for the expected funeral for Herbert Hoover.
Do you a source for that quote? I don’t necessarily doubt it, but I like to see cites sometimes.
His generation or the “Elite” anyhow saw the advent of thermonuclear weapons as the impetus for a world body that would oversee their development. This was planned even before the first atomic weapon was even tested. They thought war was impossible going forward, and that other nations would inevitably acquire them, and this was unthinkable. I understand the logic, the intent was to bomb Berlin, but the war ended in Europe before it could be used. It definitely ended the war against Imperial Japan.
They should have nuked the Kremlin and saved the world a whole lot of trouble, one of the great blunders in history, by far.
Hundreds of YPSL/YSA in Dallas that day armed to the hilt.
Hundreds of right wing militia in Dallas armed to the hilt…. Including my brother.
Only 2 or 3 got off a shot. Nobody else had a shot.. or chickened out.
Result: armed groups fell apart 63- 67. They came back on the left in 68. Not so much on the right.
The MSM was the same then as now.
Yes, it was. Adlai Stevenson had supposedly been whacked in the head by a sign carrying enthusiast “US out of the UN”, Adlai being the UN representative. He was reasonably conservative by the Cold War standards of the day, Democrats still being somewhat sane, at least in public.
But the “news” immediately speculated without evidence and blamed a “right wing climate of hate” on the shooting - imagine their distress when it turned out to be a communist defector to the Soviet Union. Not much has changed in 60+ years, just amplified 1000 times and 24/7 now, they don’t even try to hide it.
I haven’t listened to They Might Be Giants in over 15 years
But Birdhouse in my Soul for some reason popped into my head
So I played that , then immediately came back here and clicked your link
Strange timing ….
I’m scared
Cut taxes, check. Was anti- Socalist and marxist - check. Spent some , but nowhere near Great Society- check. Refused to devalue the dollar and go off the gold standard- check. The left would call himnacnazi right wing facist today.
Mermirriman Smith, the UPI correspondent was in the Motercade. Everyone in the Modercadeckneq that he was dead, but this was the UPI Nulliten at 1: 36 PM: President Kennedy seriously wounded. Perhaps seriously, perhaps fatal by Assadians bullet.
Right after the announcement that the president had died came over the intercom the school sent us all home immediately as soon as they could get the busses lined up. School didn’t start back up again until after Thanksgiving. Everyone just sat at home and watched the TV all day.
Cronkite was a pompous fraud. Americans loved him.
My mother parked outside the post office and let me listen on the radio while she went inside. She knew it was historical, but she was never a Kennedy voter. No tears in my family.
“she was never a Kennedy voter. No tears in my family”
The only JFK-related tears I saw in my family were on the night JFK was elected. LOTS of tears!
“after the announcement that the president had died came over the intercom the school sent us all home”
We got the intercom announcement while I was in high school study hall, but we weren’t sent home. JFK and his ilk weren’t popular in our little town.
“Everyone just sat at home and watched the TV all day.”
We were at our family homestead for Thanksgiving. Grandpa had a running commentary about them “dragging the body all over creation”, and had all of us cousins in stitches.
MJ 12 pvneuma demona
imagine their distress when it turned out to be a communist defector to the Soviet Union.
Hence all the conspiracy bullcrap.
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