Ten years ago I happened upon some images of the sunny day in Dallas where JFK, in his motorcade into oblivion, saw a brilliant, sunlit reception by the people of Texas. I made three watercolors of some of the last things he saw before he arrived at Dealey Plaza . . and for the rest of us, the ‘60’s.
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Steve Brodner
I think a political assassination will elicit a profound reaction, no matter when it happens. However, with Kennedy died the innocence of a generation. There was a belief that the United States was on the side of the angels, and was protected by some unknown force from such a thing happening. This was immediately followed by a profound feeling that the United States was engendering extremely bad luck. And as the masks came off, the understanding that we were sleepwalking through the generations became very profound.
...and those of us of a 'certain age' remember where we were when we heard and I remember the entire weekend after and sense a feeling of overwhelming sadness and being stunned. I think now to when Reagan was shot and how it was stunning yet was it the same sense of horror that we felt in '63? Now if it happened given the number of mass shootings almost daily in the US, would there be -- well, what would the reactions be?