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issybird · 11-22-2016, 08:13 PM

...that John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Even though it was 1963, the sixties, as we remember/imagine them, hadn't really started yet. Not until the following year: the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Freedom Summer, and, for the first time, the Surgeon General said that cigarette smoking was hazardous to your health.

I don't regret the racist, misogynistic, commie-fearing 50s, but there's also no denying that JFK's death marked the end of an era. You'd have to be 60 or older to have a clear memory of that day, now.

11-22-2016, 08:13 PM	#1
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,557 Karma: 236124635 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One	It was 53 years ago today... ...that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Even though it was 1963, the sixties, as we remember/imagine them, hadn't really started yet. Not until the following year: the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Freedom Summer, and, for the first time, the Surgeon General said that cigarette smoking was hazardous to your health. I don't regret the racist, misogynistic, commie-fearing 50s, but there's also no denying that JFK's death marked the end of an era. You'd have to be 60 or older to have a clear memory of that day, now.