This song speaks for itself. I remember the day vividly JFK died. I was a sixth grade patrol guard at Northwood Elementary School in High Point N.C. standing at the top of the circle near the end of the school day, waiting to help kids cross the road, when Dot Easter came into the driveway in her car, ‘yelling the President’s been shot’. And we were all herded back into our classrooms and we were made to watch the horror unfold, again and again on TVs.
Bob has certainly conveyed the mood of shock and horror at the time, and the question still remains as to who was actually behind the assassination. Was it really the Russians? And how in the world was Jack Ruby allowed to have access to Oswald and kill him? Too many unanswered questions. Listen to the lyrics…. as Bob suggests, it’s in a significant way been down hill since Kennedy in terms of many things when it comes to our national aspirations and hopes. And those events in Dallas also foreshadowed a much more violent America was on the rise, thanks to the increasingly free access to guns, including military weapons in the hands of non-military persons who can hardly claim to be part of ‘a well order militia’ which is what the Constitution and Bill of Rights was talking about.
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