In the aftermath of President Kennedy’s death—he was killed on this day in 1963—New Yorker writers remembered his final days and his political legacy.
The death of a President enters the house and becomes a death in the family. No other public death produces so personal an alteration in one’s world. Tritely, one remembers the precise spot on which one stood, resisting acceptance and grief. For us, it was a patch of crowded sidewalk. The circle of knowledge, whose center was a weak transistor radio, expanded in murmurs , engulfed us, and moved on, until we were left in the silence of irrevocable fact, exchanging empty looks with our companions.
.” There were signs everywhere at the airport of the precautions that the Secret Service, the F.B.I., and the local police had taken to reconcile maximum handshaking with maximum security. There were also signs everywhere of Democratic Party rifts, dissatisfactions, and antagonisms, all of which the President himself would be trying, by sheer will and the force of his personal presence, to reconcile. We encountered Congressman Claude Pepper before he left Miami to meet the President in Tampa.
President Kennedy took it from there, in his own ebullient way. “I’ve been making nonpartisan speeches all day, and I’m glad to come here as a Democrat,” he started off, in old-fashioned campaign style. The crowd loved it. There were cheers from both sides of the wire fence, and all the politicians on the platform appeared happy and satisfied.
We noticed that Mrs. Peterson and her fourth-graders were crowded against the wire fence, their hands outstretched, and we noticed that the President kept trying to pull away from the Secret Service men and head in their direction. A white man was holding Barbara up high to get a better look , so that she could give a responsible report to the rest of her class and share with them everything that she saw that day.
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