Vanity- The Passing of Camelot

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Posted on 11/22/2024 2:58:47 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas

At about 1:30 PM on another Friday in November some 61 years ago, Mr. Lew Hitch announced to the biology class, that the President had been shot in Dallas. Within the hour we learned that John F. Kennedy had died from his wounds. I think that for most of us, it was the largest dose of bad news our country had ever experienced.

1200 or so high schoolers took the early dismissal announcement in quiet sadness and made our ways home where other shocking events would be learned over the next three days.

The Nation wept. Our Camelot era was over. November 22, 1963, became a date to be recalled every year for perhaps 25-30 years longer.

We hardly knew where a country called Vietnam was located, but we all were about to figure that out.

The assassination of the President would be the Nation's singular most tragic event until September 11, 2001.

For my generation, November 22, 1963, was the day we all grew up a bit.

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