Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twice within five years, we had to hear from the land that all others strive to emulate, the harsh, frightening crack of an assassin's rifle. The shots that were echoing around the world after the death of John F. Kennedy, shaking the belief that the U.S.A. is the last place where the courage of an individual to fight against man's inhumanity to man would be met with the cruel bullet of an assassin, had hardly died away. And now Dr. King is dead, crucified on the cross hairs of a madman's telescopic sights...
...full of nuggets of what he calls Hoosier philosophy, e.g.: "Whenever you hear a man say it's not the money, it's the principle, you can bet it's the money." Branigin himself got into the primary contest as a matter of principle. Lyndon Johnson asked him to run as a presidential standin, and although the Governor was never a Johnson fan, he believed that party loyalty demanded his acceptance. "Here I agree to do it," he says, "and just a few days later [when Johnson pulled out of the race] find myself dropped through...
Much as it has meant to the community, the citizens are even prouder of the fact that the convention has become a famous oasis for folk buffs, talent scouts, and people who just like to hear some fancy bowin' and pickin'. In fact, Union Grovers are beginning to believe that a special providence watches over the event. Founder H. P. Van Hoy, now 81, recalls that it rained on the opening session 44 years ago, but "there hasn't been a drop of rain on any convention since. If that doesn't mean the Lord...
...news of John Kennedy's assassination touches them all-but very much in their own way. Freddy Thorne hears it over the radio in his dental office. "You hear that?" says Freddy. "Some crazy Texan. You may spit." A few minutes later, J.F.K. is dead, and Freddy thinks of canceling his party that night. "But I've bought the booze," he says...
...three of my most Republican associates" were having lunch when the news came. "Well, naturally everyone assumed that a right-wing crackpot had done it," he says. "We were all very pious and tut-tutty. Then young Ed called up absolutely ecstatic and said, 'Did you hear? It wasn't one of ours, it was one of theirs!' " And the party goes...