A couple of years ago History or NatGeo showed a special on the Kennedy assassination. It was titled something like 24 hours in Dallas or something. After the shooting, the video featured several man-in-the-street reactions from the public about the assassination. They must have shown a dozen or so interviews. At least in four of them, the interviewee blamed “rightwing extremists.” I was shocked. I had never heard that term before till the ‘90s, I guess with OKC bombing, etc. Where did that term come from back in the ‘60s? Anyway, it was a revelation to me.
Odd that you and so many other go back to the OK bombing -as if 9/11 never happened. Seems creepy trollish... I mean, what’s your point?
I was in the 11th grade when Kennedy was assasinated. I remember our teacher saying that there were people in Texas who would have liked to kill him. I believe he said something about the right wing but I am not sure but he did say that there were dangerous people in Texas who might want him dead. This happened in a school in Massachusetts. It makes you wonder what was being circulated in the teachers/intellectuals’ world at that time.
Where did these man in the street interviews happen? Did they travel to different parts of the country to gauge public opinions or did they just walk out of the New York City offices?