Duck & Cover

[Adele Edisen]

Thanks for that post Mr Burnham. Those of us over age 60 can recall those happenings as they occurred for the most part. Yes indeed, history as it happened. Admittedly, a lot of the importance of the times I may not have comprehended then, but hopefully I do now.
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You're welcome.

It's not a bad piece of music either. Billy Joel is an artist. The melodic and lyrical capturing of a complex time in history...capsulation, yet without diminishment...no small feat.

Thank you, Greg. Fabulous video. And thank you, L.R. for your comments.

And for those researchers who giggle and laugh at Lyndon Johnson, as if it were some kind of phony ruse by Johnson in telling Justice Earl Warren that many millions of American lives were at stake if he didn't head the Commission to "resolve" the John Kennedy assassination. He wanted Warren to head the Commission as someone who had credentials of unimpeachable authority. He didn't want the inquiry to get out of hand and stir up more hysteria. He also worked hard to get Senator Richard Russell, his trusted friend, to be his eyes and ears as a member of that Commission. If you recall, Russell did not buy the conclusion of the 4 other members (Warren, Dulles, McCloy, Ford) of the Commission that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin. Senator Cooper and Rep. Boggs agreed with Russell. Their dissents were not included in the Report of the Commission.

We were told by radio on the afternoon of Friday November 22, 1963, that a communist had killed the President, before Lee Harvey Oswald had been captured and charged with the crime. The CIA's "Wurlitzer" was already grinding out the message. (Wurlitzer was the brand name of a musical organ used in silent movie theaters = CIA's name for its own propaganda machine.)

Lyndon Johnson was being pressured to form the Commission. He preferred a Texas Court of Inquiry, Congressional Hearings, but finally relented late on Thursday, November 28, 1963, and announced the names of the seven Commission members late on Friday evenng, November 29, 1963. Source: THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION COVER-UP REVISITED by Dr. Donald Gibson.

During the 1950s and 1960s children did practice exercises in their classrooms by hiding under their desks in the event of an atomic bombing. Many people built bomb shelters in their homes or backyards and stocked them with food and water supplies. Many thought of moving to countries in the Southern Hemisphere. My husband and I considered New Zealand or Australia, and some people did move there. It was no joking matter.

Adele