How government died with Kennedy

Saturday, November 22, 2003

The unbelievable truth that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas passed from stunned teachers to students, in hushed words exchanged between workers and from store clerk to customer, until the crushing news came an hour later that the nation's young, charismatic leader was dead.

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