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Re: That Most Searing Day (HUMOR)



Beneath the dignified professional facade of the archival list serve lie all
the passions of a kintergarden playground!

Speaking of Kennedy reminds me of a story, as the Great Emancipatior would
say.  Barry Goldwater once took a great picture of Kennedy and sent it to
him to be autographed.  This was about the time that Goldwater was
considering his own run for the presidency.  Kennedy obliged and returned it
with a note to this effect:

     "To my friend Barry Goldwater, whom I wish the greatest success in the
profession for which he is so obviously suited....photography!"

Probably no two men could disagree more vehemently (and  possibly with many
"colorful metaphors", as Mr. Spock would say) yet they were friends.

Shall we go and do likewise?  (Pardon the sermon...it's the Methodist
layspeaker in me coming out!).

Art Dostie

Maine State Archives

-----Original Message-----
From: phrsf [mailto:phrsf@EMAIL.MSN.COM]
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:00 PM
To: Archives & Archivists
Cc: Dostie, Arthur
Subject: Re: That Most Searing Day


I don't get it...I thought historians were supposed to look at history from
as many directions as possible to get a clearer picture of the past.
Daniel's message seems ballanced and logical.  The rest of you need to
lighten up, sheesh.
Chris Corley

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Sokolow <daniel_sokolow@MCGRAW-HILL.COM>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: That Most Searing Day


> I've been ignoring this thread, but I can only assume from this particular
post
> that things have gotten a tad nasty.  I for one wasn't born (and wouldn't
be for
> some time) when JFK was killed, but I think historical perspective is sort
of
> useful when this kind of thing comes up.  I imagine that the reaction (of
> Europeans of a particular social class, granted) was similar when the
Archduke
> Franz Ferdinand was killed, igniting WWI.  Perhaps there was similar
distress
> when Caesar was stabbed (Et tu, archivist?)
>
> I think that assasination is, like it or not, part of human existence, and
has
> been for many thousands of years.  Kennedy's death is different, if only
because
> the images have been broadcast so vividly and so quickly.  Add the
mystique of
> the Kennedy family, the telegenic first family, JFK's relative youth, and
you've
> got the makings of a cultural icon and the enormous outpouring of grief
still
> felt to this day.
>
> It will take a more distant, dispassionate crop of historians to fit JFK
and his
> assasination into its proper historic context.  I understand that JFK's
track
> record as president was mixed, and had he not been killed, I suspect he
would
> have been pilloried or praised, depending on the political bent of the
writer,
> but he probably wouldn't have been sanctified (if not deified.) I can
respect
> the trauma that the event had on people who witnessed or experienced it,
but I
> don't think it's fair to expect everyone else (foreigners, those of us
unborn,
> etc.) to share the same feelings.
>
> Just my two cents, dropped into the already roiling waters.
>
> DS
>
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