I would have to say “Bull Shit” to that claim of children cheering.
I remember sitting in my third grade classroom when an announcement was made. The teacher became real sad and said that school was to be closed and we were all to go home. We were confused and didn’t know what was going on so we walked home.
When I got home my mother was sitting in front of the TV crying. That’s when it sunk in that the President had been killed.
I, too, call BS. My father was a huge supporter of Nixon and did not like Kennedy in the least. However, after the assassination school was let out( I was in the seventh grade) and I remember riding my bike home, only to find my father already home sitting on the front steps. He was distraught over the assassination and was proud of me for being the same way. Conservatives are not evil, and we have the truest of human emotions. We want to beat the Progressives, but we want to do so at the ballot box and not through gun play.