New Orleans reacts to John F. Kennedy's assassination
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- čas přidán 17. 12. 2019
- President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22, 1963. Moments after the shots were fired, a local reporter went to Canal Street to record interviews with pedestrians. This raw and uncut video footage shows the raw emotion and sense of disbelief from many of the interview subjects.
News: What do you think?
People: What a shame.
Yeah, it was very underwhelming
kennedy wasnt very popular during his presidency due to the failed bay of pigs invasion
It could be because this was the south and maybe Kennedy wasn't that popular down there. Also, maybe people had their own lives to worry about.
@@jukio02 its a joke.
This has to be one of the most dullest reaction to an assassination of a good man
JFK didn't become popular and well liked till after he was killed.
@@salvation4all313 Regardless he was still a President...
@@salvation4all313 JFK was unpopular is much of the South but his overall approval ratings were actually fairly good. And even a lot of people who seemed to hate his policies were caught up in his youth and glamorous life.
@T L Townes Many of these people didn't even know the president had died when they were interviewed. They just knew the president had been shot. It wasn't like today where there was instant images of the killing.
Except for the woman in 4:13. She actually seems happy for some reason.
It’s important to note that Kennedy wasn’t very well liked in the South, and while that doesn’t mean the people in the video are happy that he died but I would imagine they’re not going to be as sad as someone from other parts of the country would be
What about that fat woman crying?
Didn't he win in the South?
@@PedroHenrique-do9ntthe civil rights act was a stab for the south. Even though it passed after his death he campaigned for it and introduced it to Congress but was assassinated in between
@@PedroHenrique-do9nt he won a few southern states including Louisiana
The nun was the deepest thinker.
So odd seeing how common it was to see nuns around were back then
Well this is New Orleans, a city with a heavy Catholic presence even more so in the 60s
New Orleans even today is still a heavily Catholic city. Founded by France & Spain, later welcomed Catholic emigrants from Ireland, Germant, Italy, the Carribean, & is filled with Catholic schools, churches, and cemeteries.
Wow this really makes you look at the 60s and the city in different light,
Average person was more intelligent then than now.
People still dressed presentably. Stores on Canal Street busy and safe. One could easily be mugged in the same block today.
@Mr. No Weapon (The Prince Of The Talkbox) 1:49
@@bettycattk5298violence really ticked up in America soon after this and the Vietnam and civil rights marches.
It is interesting how polite people were and almost compassionate by assuming someone must be unwell do do such a thing. Yet fast forward to today and people are instantly judgmental and baying for blood whenever something happens. Very sad and regressive.
Alex - Lynchings continued in the Deep South up to the 1950s
@@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 I know
If you think things were better back then because some people were polite when a camera was rolling, I think you are mentally unwell.
@@kelvinhbo you just proved my point, thanks 😊
@@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 Now we just have murders at record rates in some cities. Such a huge improvement.
The question about Kennedy being shot was asked PRIOR to the news that Kennedy had died from a gunshot wound to the head. Not much was said on the news about who, what, how, why this occurred. It didn't really affect the nation until later that day/evening. By Saturday, I think people begin to be understand the scope of the event. Everyone was glued to their TV and Monday, the day of the funeral, every business was closed, along with schools. It was very sad and distressing.
Exactly. Morons commenting on here
I was in the lunch line at my elementary school and the serving ladies were crying. He was shot at 12:30 central time, which was 11:30 mountain time where I was. So, if we ate at noon, it was a 30 minute delay at most.
It just amazes me how unemotional and surprisingly calm the people were in New Orleanson that fateful day. Makes you think about how hated JFK must have been in the South at the time. I was only five years old when JFK was assassinated so I asked my parents how they felt about the assassination. My mother coldly remarked that she wasn’t upset like some others living in the Northeast. She said “it wasn’t like he was a family member!.”I have to say I was embarrassed to hear my mother say something like that! But maybe if you had voted for Nixon in 1960 like my folks did, I guess you wouldn’t have cared so much but just move on with everyday your lives. Maybe a lot of Americans didn’t care much for JFK at the time and we have turned the assassination into a national tragedy and now think of him as a martyr. I would like people to reply to these comments and tell me how they felt at the time. Again I was only five years old. The only thing I was upset about was that there were no Saturday morning kid shows on TV!
New Orleans was the city where Lee H Oswald was born, It was where David Ferrie and Clay Shaw lived, the assasination was planned in that city and this is where Jim Garrison was the DA. Kennedy was not a popular president with the people of that part of the country. Really, no matter what time in history, no matter what part of the country, most people really just care about their own lives and concerns and unless it affects them personally, most people really hear it and then go on to the next thing in their life. I was no where to be seen as I was not born until 1970, but for me personally, I met JFK in the history books and on film and in so many actor portrayals and I really have looked to him as a class act and one whom I have always modeled myself after. I also really respect and admire Reagan, he is a president I remember, and thank God for the country he survived his near death by a would be assasin.
Thanks Anthony, great comments! New Orleans was also Carlos Marcelo’s backyard!
JFK had a pretty high approval rating during most his presidency. Having said that, most older, Southern whites (like many interviewed here) were not his most excited advocates or vociferously supportive voting block at that time.
@@RayofLightTarot maybe due to JFK’s support of civil rights actions to quell civil disturbances. But he was surely hated in a number of circles, i.e. the mob and white racists in the South
Im not even american, but i still feel so bad for him, because he was good right? I mean yeah you could be loved my MOST people but still have haters. Especially, when ur a politician.
I'm surprised so many are so composed as to answer a tv reporter's questions.I'll bet when many of these get home, their first words will be "I got on tv" instead of "the President was killed".
Please shut jo
Interesting point
You're wrong. I'm 72. People weren't nearly as crass and vulgar as they are now. Couldn't you tell that from the reactions? The one weirdo was the woman with the sagging breasts and the cigarette who seemed to have an IQ of maybe 70.
Interesting fact--The Beach Boys wanted to write something about Kennedy's assassination and how they were feeling that day. Mike Love and Brian Wilson went to Brian's office and wrote "Warmth of the Sun" in a half hour, which is crazy. It's a beautiful ballad about the loss of love. If you ever get a chance, drive down Pacific Coast Hwy during sunset and listen to this song, it's magical and you can make some great memories!
What’s even more salt in the wound was on that day, 11/22/63 it was also the 9th birthday of my Uncle John W. Dyess III. He told me recently that he remembers seeing and hearing the teachers crying by the radio when they heard the news.
Great piece of history. Thanks for keeping it.
Two observations. I think back then there was more of a tendency to not get overly emotional in public. Nowadays people feel totally comfortable, even entitled, to lose their minds over even small things.
Secondly, we as Americans have become so much more hostile towards opposing political groups. I wonder if today most people would express regret if the President belonging to an opposing political party were shot.
No they would not. People are very different now. Ask any older person. Cruel, selfish, zero empathy, platform loving narcissists are everywhere today. James Brandt you are right.
I must agree with both of you guys. I am 58 from Texas, the general American public can be apathetic about such things, even cruel and ugly.
Right. Remember all the people wishing death on Trump when he got Covid? Disgusting.
Empathy is a sign of intelligence. American IQ has gone downhill and will continue to do so.
A most awful day.
The black guy saw it coming.
I hate to say this but the response to such a tragic event is awful, for it seems that more people were shocked by the shooting of Oswald,then of JFK,yet Oswald's was on TV
Being a “random black guy” myself, I understand the template that blacks had in that time period. See , on June 11, of that year ,JFK made a risky if not brave Report to the American People on Civil Rights. It encouraged the American Negro but didn’t go over too well with everyone (not just the Southern population) . So this black guy felt like many blacks that Kennedy was a marked man for that nationally televised speech. In fact, NAACP leader Medgar Evers was shot down in Jackson , Miss that very night. So I hope it helps us understand what the RBG might have been thinking.
Reporters do not know how to report the news or question people.
It's interesting to see some people's initial reaction to hearing the news.
Good footage, glad it was saved.
I think people were shocked but also these people survived WWII, they’re emotionally numb to horrors.
Some of them, yes, but that was a generation earlier in timeframe. 18.5 years is a long time in our short lifespans.
He should've asked "do you think Oliver Stone will be making a movie about this?". Surprised person "who?"
Amazing how they already are saying person not persons
I just cannot believe how well people dress back then. Especially the adults and the people walking around past me. Now in sweatpants, women wearing tightly Leitatarts, especially big fat ones.
50 year old men dressing like 15 year old children, it's mine boggling
Why didn't anyone ask if he was alive or dead?
They were in shock and disbelief.
Because they didn't care
4:13 is it me or she happy about this???
notice how most everyone was so well-dressed back in those days
It's like some of them didn't even care. It makes you sick at your stomach.
The sign in the Woolworth's window is advertising 'Records' by the 'Singing Nun'.Her song 'Dominique' was about to top the U.S.charts in two weeks time.
Thank YOU! Brings back my 3rd. grade memories! TOUGH TIMES! (U.S.A. = ?????)
These downtown street scenes are gone today - Woolworth's, Kress - lots of pedestrians and shoppers.
maison blanche was downtown too
I wonder if anyone interviewed is still alive. i imagine that for many this might be one of the few recordings they have of relatives who were interviewed but since have passed away.
I was a little kid in Australia and I remember it well. I was with my father at a local store and he ran into a neighbour who told him that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Even though I was very young I could tell they were shocked. At school we had the newspaper reports pinned up on the classroom notice board. I've also never forgotten the film footage of that day.
It was tragic news. 🇦🇺
What kind of person do you think could have done this?
The question should be what kind of people do you think could have done this
@Zokal Uzi 16 you're missing the point
@Zokal Uzi 16
It's NOT a person' that killed Kennedy
PEOPLE !!!
MANY PEOPLE
KILLED HIM
Give it a rest.
@@SpeccyHorace
First off.. this comment is a year old plus
And to add,
it'll never rest, this has eternal fascination for all generations past and present
Great footage
2:26 This guy is a cross between John Marley ( Frank wolfz godfather) and drill instruction Hartman ( full metal jacket).
Somebody pleez give me an amen!!!!!!!!!
Interesting that something was edited out at the @5:30 mark….
"What kind of person you think could've DONE something like this?" Stupid question.
Ngl the dark skinned lady's reaction is literally the reaction to every lady who watches this now
People from New Orleans talk like dey r from Jersey City. How does that woik???
Btw the woman at 5:31 is gorgeous!
Lee Harvey Oswald spent many times in New Orleans.
The first guy was thrilled to hear the news.
And he looked a bit like LBJ. at the end looked like he was trying to hide a smirk. Just an observation.
@@AnthonyCatella yeah he does
The first man interviewed looked like a shorter LBJ.
Southerners were notably more nonchalant in their reactions than other Americans.
am amazed how elegant the ordinary people were before, all well-dressed! nowadays quite a few take time to look good.
That’s a good thing. Who wants to live in such a vain society anymore where people only judge you based on looks?
@@fatboyRAY24 , it isn't about a person's looks, it's about the way people dressed then compared with the way they dress now.
@@bobtaylor170 But the way you dress contributes to the way you look. IMO we're better off without this shallow extravagance. People went through, and still go through, all this work to dress up because if they did not then they were looked down upon or casted out to some extent. Do it long enough and you'll convince yourself that you're dressing nice because of some intrinsic satisfaction that has nothing to do with the cultural indoctrination thats steeped so deep into your subconscious that you can't even tell if a thought or a preference is truly yours or someone else's. Sure, dressing "nice" doesn't harm anyone directly, but it contributes to the reinforcement of valuing the shallow things in life and treating people like shit for the most trivial reasons.
@@fatboyRAY24 I always judge a book by its cover. I see people walking around stores in a tank top wearing pajamas and slippers. There must be a standard in our society. Some sort of sophistication
@@smithfan22 There is always a standard. Trends may change but human nature doesn’t. In the past it was stringent formal wear, today it’s casual wear.
Odd that the reporter said shot as opposed to killed.
Because at the time it wasn’t publicly known he had died
you can just see the shock overcome on the first man's face .
Geez. Dead people would have had more emotion than these people.
It was my mother's 10th birthday that day
Then her birthday was ruined.
It’s interesting that I don’t hear that distinctive New Orleans accent.
New Orleans is a city of many accents, not just the sterotypical Hollywood one.
I'm not sure it was fair to the people he interviewed to ask them about how they felt when they had just heard about it and did not know if he was alive or not. I know that I would for one would be in shock and would need time to process what had just happened before I could even begin to come up with a response to such a question.
First of all people didn't talk much with a camera in their face... Down here everybody has a story about Oswald an at that time we had no idea the shooter was from here
People commenting on the video are dense as hell. This was something monumental that the country hadn't seen before. People were in disbelief. Just because they didnt react like it was a video made for "likes," or some brainless Tic Tac video, doesnt mean the public here wasnt stunned and in shock
You mean a president assassinated? Because they was 3 presidents before him who were assassinated. They was Abraham Lincoln James Garfield and William McKinley so it wasn’t anything new
Yes preach
Woman at 1:35 has a classic New Orleans accent
3:14 women like this literally do not exist anymore
1:54 😢
Why isn’t he saying that the President was” murdered”? These people lack empathy - what sorry excuses for decent people! The news devastated me!
they didn’t know he was killed yet.
Because he didn't know that at the time. They didn't report the president as dead until at least 30 minutes after the shooting. They didn't lack empathy. They lacked information.
That's how people were back then they are strict and tough
New Orleans A very close minded city
Translation: Well, he was a Yankee.
Assassinations in history have shown to be power plays to remove a leader who threatens other powerful interests. Just blaming a lone nut can miss a deeper plot.
In Kennedys case it was a deeper plot.
People dress like bums now compared to that time period.,
Ask this nowadays and people will be cheering, jeez
Or crying like babies. Too much emotional people nowadays.
I can't stand this current President but I don't wish harm, people can get too much into this political stuff to the extreme.
5:42 as the white guy accuses JFK of stirring up racial trouble, the killer look of the young black woman over his shoulder. Damn.
I'm black & didnt see any "killer looks" on that young lady. Everyone was in shock & disbelief.
@@victorparker308 5:40. Well I sure did.
Calm, well dressed slim people giving reasonable answers. How far has the west fallen
Those same people wouldn't share a diner with a Black person so maybe we're better off
@@AreYouSufferingX according to you...
@@lifelongbachelor3651 according to me? This was during the height of segregation. According to history, according to first hand accounts, according to facts.
@@AreYouSufferingX those hoping for a homogenous world will be perpetually disappointed.
@@AreYouSufferingXWhy would you publicly make such an ignorant statement without knowing any of these people? By 1963 blacks & whites had been living cheek by jowell in the congested urban confines of New Orleans for 250 years. Yes there was segregation & sometime hate (just like up north), but also plenty of racially integrated areas that had been so forever & lots of "biological integration" and acceptance between races prevalent since the ruling days of France & Spain. New Orleans wasn't perfect, but no less so than 1963's New York, Boston, or Chicago.
my reaction is the life is goes on
Are you a person that speaks English ? because your comment sounds like it was written by six-year-old
Question. What kind of a person would do something like this. Uh..Allan Dulles !
The original reaction video
Even the nuns smirking, damn they hated in him the south didn't they . Smh
Time Traveller spotted. 02:12
They be like yeah ok whatever.
02:30 Un día de furia
People were more sad when Kobe Bryant died.
Not to mention Queen Elizabeth II.
Bro Elon musk time traveler confirmed 😂 0:16
President Kennedys death was awful.
And many people have initially butted out.
*_The politeness, accent, power of analysis and kindness of the old people are very impressive. I watched a few interview videos shot in the 1950s and 1960s. Let me say this much. The American people today are much more immoral, rude, corrupt and ruined. Alcoholism, drug addiction, homosexual culture, and a complete departure from Christianity have destroyed American society. It's truly unbelievable. Very few people are aware of this fact. When religion and morality are lost, societies decay. The concept of family disappeared and American society collapsed. The same goes for Europe. Also for some other countries._*
Wow why was that one white man so happy? How?
On one hand shows how stupid a person would go around asking these stupid questions. How do you think they would answer and react. Second hand this person is just thinking of a lone assassin instead of a conspiracy assassination.
Where is David Ferrie?
SHOT USUALLY MEANS WOUNDED.
0:50 would
A very sad day but who was realy responsible, no way did oswald do that on his own or even if he had anything to do with it at all , but the government knows the truth , but the are scared to tell the truth .
It stopped a lot, he had plans for major progress, rocking boat too much, no magic bullet.
Corrupted official s done this
Did what? Not the whole conspiracy thing for the millionth time?
I found the last guy quite interesting - would have liked to hear more from him before the footage cut away. The guy at 5:40 - I mean, how tactless and callous can a person be to talk about Kennedy 'stirring up' racial troubles while he stands right in front of a young black lady.
suit and tie
wow... so the media reporters have always been asking stupid questions
That snake LBJ was behind the whole thing.
He and Nixon, Hoover knew of the conspiracy because all three at a party according to LBJ's mistress Madeline Brown,who had LBJ'S child.Lady Bird knew about her and the baby. That's political suicide now just the mention of it.
@@michaelwoodward9894 One palm oil growers settlement in my country was named in LBJ honour. 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾
@@michaelwoodward9894 Nonsense. The social event, the night before the assassination, at which Brown alleges LBJ told her of a JFK plot, at the home of Texas oil magnate Clint Murchison, never happened, as Murchison was in ill health at the time, recovering from a stroke, and did not even live in Dallas then. Furthermore, LBJ was verified as having been in Houston that night, 225 miles away, chairing a dinner honoring Albert Thomas. Madeleine Duncan Brown is a proven pathological serial liar.
Interesting psych experiment, the implicit bias of asking "what kind of person would do this?"...what if he has asked "What kind of people would do this?"..the answers and where there minds went would have been very different.
In a time like this and seems so old nowadays
“The president is dead”
*”hmmm.. okay”*
I know! Wt...
His own vice president LBJ..duh
It wasn't reported that he was dead yet only shot . Thats why the reactions were so calm had they knew he was killed Um sure the reactions would have been a lot more emotional . Times were different and people were more reserved not like the any thing goes world 🌎 in which we live in now
Markedly apathetic, however unsurprisingly so.
Seems like half of them don’t care.
The reason people's reaction is flat and detached is because they didn't really care to fake empathy like the heros of today.
It was announced immediately that the President was dead.
@@mikelheron20 No, it was not. We first learned that the President was shot. About 45 minutes later, we learned that he had died. Take a history course…
all these people are probably dead
wow peoeple really didnt give a damn about politics back then
You can tell its the south
Americans were so naive back then. Couldn't even fathom that the govt or CIA could do it. Or maybe they were just too afraid to speak about it. Age of innocence died that day.
Paaarrrrrrty!!! Wer dem drugz an' likker?