Volume 1, Number 9 · December 26, 1963
The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
By David T. Bazelon
On November 22, 1963, nearly five thousand people died in the United States. It was an ordinary day in this respect. But on that particular Friday, President Kennedy was one of the five thousand. From the response of the nation, revealed through its culture, you would have thought that death had been invented on November 22, 1963. And for that culture, it indeed had.
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