>It was not as partisan then.
Checkout what was running in the Texas papers the week before the assassination. Hate is an ongoing theme in any society. Coverage was different, but the sheer nastiness in America during the early sixties still peeked through the more restricted media coverage. Anybody who worked civil rights in the South saw partisanship at its worst. It wasn't so much Dem/Rep since at that time the Dixiecrats were Dems. I think the people who hated Kennedy ( not just those who were political foes ) were a lot more vitriolic than the Obama haters. ( and for some of them his being an Irish Catholic was probably every bit as big a deal as half of Obama is to the racists. )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
