Rather went on the air with a local Methodist minister who made a stunning claim: Children at Dallas's University Park Elementary School had cheered when told of the president's death.
I would tend to believe it really happened, as I personally met a woman in Texas who claimed to have cheered at the news while in her own school. How extensively it happened, I cannot say.
I would tend to believe it really happened, as I personally met a woman in Texas who claimed to have cheered at the news while in her own school. How extensively it happened, I cannot say. It didn't happen in my school.
I was in Sixth grade when it happened, in Wylie, Texas which is about 30 miles north-east of Dallas. Shortly after the news "The President has been shot and wounded in Dallas" came over the PA system, they sent my class to the library, where we waited for news updates. When the news came that Kennedy had been officially pronounced dead, there wasn't a dry eye anywhere to be seen.
Well--you have one person's word that she cheered when she heard the news.
That must make it true/sarcasm