>I wasn't born until '65, but I did a school project at a very young age about both JFK and Bobby.
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>I had always wondered what things were like after events like JFK being shot, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, etc. Then we all experienced 9/11. My reactions were a mixture of numbness and horror, so I've been curious if that's what it was like for other events.
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>Kevin

The aspect of history that interests me the most has to do with the common man. What was life like for the average person within a society? We do have a few fragments about how people felt about specific historic events. In more recent times we have recordings of people describing how an event affected them. You will have differing viewpoints as well as a general concept.

There are many words to describe the JFK assignation. Disbelief, sorrow, tragic, are only a few. The period from 1963 through 1968 seemed to be one of turmoil with assignations of JFK, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy. It seemed like those leaders who attempted to help others were silenced by assignation.

I have talked to my mom (who turned 90 a few days ago) and others who experienced events like Pearl Harbor. That was an even more naive time than 1963. However that event did unify the country unlike other events in our later history. There was an object fear of being bombed by the Japanese here on the West Coast. They had black out curtains on all the windows with Block Air Raid Wardens who made sure that lights from your home could not be seen during Air Raid Alerts.

I can remember the powerful bright searchlights on Mission Street in San Francisco, searching for enemy aircraft at night. At the end of WW II I was three years old. I can remember very well my father returning form the South Pacific during December of 1945. That was a happy moment!


Tom