Venue for Nov 28, thoughts

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Originally Posted by JolyB

The only mention of 11/22 being the anniversary of JFK's assassination in our local paper was a one sentence entry in the "Today in History" area that AP puts together. It received exactly the same mention as today's entry of 11/24/63 when Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald while live TV cameras were rolling.

Perhaps the noise from a combination of the never ending election cycle and the COVID-19 pandemic have just drowned out everything else; I've had the belief for some time that we don't spend enough time learning about either our history or about basic civics, and we are the worse off for that.

I agree, but I am biased toward learning history having taken Western Civ, U.S History, Russian History, African History, History of the South and Political Science which in my view was just more history.