I was looking through the Book of Face pages the other day and ran across a post about The Sidewalk Scene. I remember them, friend Ray Brandes having been a frontman for them how long ago? Two years so? Three years? The post linked to a page which showcased four studio-produced tracks, all jangly and sixties-oriented. Music, in fact, that I remember fondly.
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Roxanne Tellier: Sad Day In Texas
Posted in Opinion with tags 11/22/63, Abraham Lincoln, Adlai Stevenson, Bedros Keuilian, Bill Maher, Camelot, Dallas, Dallas 1963, DBAWIS, Dion, Don't Believe a Word I Say, George, Human League, Jack Connally, Jack Ruby, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., Lady Bird, Lee Harvey Oswald, Lou Reed, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Otis Span, Phil Ochs, Robert F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Roxanne Tellier, Stephen King, Steve Paikin, Texas, The Agenda, The Beach Boys, The Postal Service, Warren Commission on December 2, 2013 by segariniFifty years on, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy still sparks painful memories in the hearts and minds of North American Baby Boomers. Where were you on November 22, 1963, when the American “Camelot” ended?
Kennedy was an impossibly exotic vision to the families of the 60’s. He was the first Irish Catholic to be elected President, something that at that time seemed as impossible as there ever being an African American in the White House. (Or a woman, for that matter, but that will happen too.) He was young, a war hero, from a large and seemingly happy family, and he seemed so very much what we all wanted our families to look like.