November 22, 1963

It was a Friday on November 22, 1963. People we going about their business, eagerly anticipating Thanksgiving the following week and the weekend closer on the calendar. Talk of Christmas presents and plans began to be bandied about. It was a pleasant, ordinary day during the New Frontier, and the President and First Lady were heading to Dallas that day. Most people just tucked that fact away in the backs of their minds if they thought of it at all. It was mostly a political trip, not big state visit or anything, so they concerned themselves with their own lives. The people in Texas were excited by the presidential visit, and others were apoplectic.

( An ordinary day in 1963 )