November 22, 1963

Submitted by Rhonda Overbey on Mon, 2013-11-18 19:16 Fifty years older and my how we've changed. My mother would often talk about hearing the announcement that JFK had been shot. This Friday makes 50 years ago. She was sitting in her typing class at Conway High School. I heard the story so many times, I should have all the details memorized but what I really remember was her feeling the story evoked. So much sadness. All you could hear in the halls of Conway High was silence punctuated with sobbing. Even the people who didn't know about politics loved Jackie. This was B.P. (before the pods), in 1963 the high school was the building on the southwest corner of Davis and Prince streets, my old junior high school building and currently part of the 'East' campus - whatever that means. So much changed that day. In the last 50 years we've become cynics, conspiracy theorists, skeptics and disheartened Americans. Vietnam, Watergate and Obamacare have added to our country's lack of unity. With the exception of 9/11, it's tough to recall a time when we as a nation sobbed together.

Front page of the Log Cabin Democrat from Fri., Nov. 22, 1963. Since Kennedy was shot at 12:30 p.m. I can only guess that the Log Cabin was an evening paper but I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Robins had printed a special evening edition if the daily Log Cabin was normally delivered in the morning.