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To: DesertRhino

Got a source...

No. I forgot the documentary. Below though is from a Financial Times article about Texas (this happened nationally in bars throughout the country).

Michael J Bond claims that “no Texan or any American celebrated President John F Kennedy’s death in Dallas” (Letters, October 18).

This simply isn’t true. As historian William Manchester wrote in his 1967 book The Death of a President, there were reports of celebrations in Texas when Kennedy was assassinated. Manchester described a scene of “rejoicing” high school students in the city of Amarillo, and he also wrote: “In Dallas itself a man whooped and tossed his expensive Stetson in the air, and it was in a wealthy Dallas suburb that the pupils of a fourth-grade class, told that the president of the United States had been murdered in their city, burst into spontaneous applause.”

Marc McDonald
Fort Worth, TX, US


71 posted on 12/16/2022 7:41:02 AM PST by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: BushCountry

Manchester has been deeply discredited as a fabulist. His WWII book Goodbye Darkness was filled with claims that were later proven to be outright lies. Battles he claimed where he was not present, faked wound claims etc.
I wouldn’t trust anything worn by him.


73 posted on 12/16/2022 7:46:12 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: BushCountry

In Dallas itself a man whooped and tossed his expensive Stetson in the air”

That would be LBJ


95 posted on 12/16/2022 9:25:30 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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