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I think for our generation,
those of us who are in the 50s

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or so, our 50 system,
the world seem

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to become unraveled or whatever.

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On November 22 and
this is the day

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that John F Kennedy was shot.

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And of course that's probably
something so beyond some of you

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that so distant, so long
ago that probably does not

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have too much meaning.

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And if somebody, you know,
started shooting presidents

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today, they'd be
doing us a favor so.

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[LAUGHTER]

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You couldn't possibly understand
what the hell it meant

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for presidential candidates.

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So anyway.

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"November Twenty-Second."

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"November Twenty-Second I was
19 and working as a roofer.

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The Moon Street
Apartments in Albuquerque.

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I was shingling a gable.

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An elderly woman came
from across the street.

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She either asked us if
we knew or else told us

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the President had been shot.

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It was about 3 o'clock.

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She mentioned Dallas a few
other things then went back.

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Shortly afterwards,
the chuck wagon came.

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I sat on a bundle of shingles
watching as men below gathered

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around fires.

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My step-father climbed back up
the ladder said a Black man,

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a carpenter told him
he had lost a friend.

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He shook his head sadly
not knowing what else

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or more to say.

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We went back to work, the
world is now coming apart

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and all the men
and all the women,

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and all the Mexican wetback
brick-layers at a penny a brick

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could never put it
back together again."

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That's a hard thing too.