{"id":73011,"date":"2013-11-22T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T13:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73011"},"modified":"2013-11-22T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T13:51:59","slug":"on-this-day-november-22-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73011","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: November 22, 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Ann-Margret: My Story<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, by Ann-Margret:<\/p>\n

Soon after I got home to Los Angeles, everything about the world was suddenly, horrifyingly different. On November 22, I drove into Beverly Hills to shop. I parked my car, but before I got out, I sensed something eerie outside. Then I noticed the people on the sidewalk all had the same stunned expression. They walked around looking dazed, almost in shock. People in cars pulled over. It was as if everything around me was slowing down, stopping.<\/p>\n

I turned on the radio and heard the horrible news: President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. All of a sudden, I was as numb and confused as everyone else. Time stopped for me as it did for everyone in the nation. I could not do anything but sit in the car and listen, hanging on every word the announcer spoke.<\/p>\n

I started to cry. Only six months earlier I had sung at the President’s birthday party. I had coaxed him into a sing-along. I had looked into his eyes and been dazzled by his smile. I had fallen under the magic Kennedy spell.<\/p>\n

I drove to Elvis’s house and found him glued to the TV. I sat down next to him. We stayed like that for what seemed an eternity – watching, waiting, and crying over the President’s death.<\/p>\n

It didn’t matter that Elvis and I were in show business. In that horrible time, we were Americans, ordinary, concerned citizens, who, like everyone else, were devastated by the tragic loss of our country’s president and our generation’s finest leader. Elvis and I clung to each other, tried futilely to make sense of what had happened, and prayed for the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition, the following radio broadcast<\/a> (plus memories of one eyewitness) is not to be missed. <\/p>\n

Speaking of which, Stephen King’s 11\/22\/63<\/a>\"\"<\/i> is a masterpiece. <\/p>\n

A horrible day for this country. <\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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