JFKjr

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

ahague wrote:

> Perhaps growing up in a time where the death loses its significance is at
> fault, but JFKjr's death has had really no impact on me.  I also would tend
> to think that the reason its effect was event felt was based solely on the
> events in November 1963.  That seems obvious at least.  Face it, the guy was
> new at piloting and he risked it flying that day.  He also risked his family
> and they all just happened to die.  The end.  Yet it just might remind
> everyone of how 'tragic' the Kennedy family seems to be.  But that's lost to
> the wind to the generation of college freshmen, or so it would seem in my
> case.

Though in Dallas school children applauded the news and in Peking the Daily
Worker ran a savage cartoon entitled "Kennedy Biting the Dust" showing the dead
President lying in a pool of blood, the necktie marked with dollar signs, sorrow
engulfed America and the world.
                                                            --Schlesinger "A
Thousand Days
Is Lot 49 Pynchon's encrypted meditation on the assassination of President John
Fitzgerald Kennedy?  Hollander makes a very convincing argument. Comments?


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