According to scholar and journalist Nick Bryant, when, on 22 November 1963, news came that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, Texas, African-Americans “felt the loss of their president just as strongly as whites, and arguably more so.” He notes that “Of the 300,000 mourners who filed past Kennedy’s casket in the Capitol rotunda, Jet [magazine] estimated a third were black.” According to research surveys “Negroes showed more sorrow, a greater sense of personal loss, and more physical symptoms than white respondents” and as measured on a grief index “the Negro increase was much greater than that of whites.” (Kennedy Assassination and the American Public, Bradley S....
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