So I'm watching the 6th season of Mad Men, and am really curious about something...

[TheGerman]

I've watched it all, I have 3 episodes left. Right up there with Breaking Bad its on of the absolutely best series to ever be shown on TV. Anyways, not so much about the show but had a question:

When JFK, Bobby Kennedy and MLK were shot they showed that life literally shut down for a few days each time. People cried and were depressed like their mother had just died and it transgressed to pretty much anyone. JFK and MLK's deaths were shown to be things where people just didn't go to work the next few days, women passed out from crying and it was EVERYONE not just a few select 'sad people'.

Did this really happen? It's hard for me to fathom and its something that's stuck out at me anytime it's been shown on the show because I have to tell you, if some politician or whatever they have for 'activists' these days got shot now, regardless of who it was....it would be news for a day and people would get into the drama more than anything and that would be that. Who the hell would cry or lose sleep over it? It would be another Anna Nicole Smith type of ordeal where no one actually gave a shit that she died but were just enthralled in the bullshit drama.

Hell we had Ted Kennedy die a few years back and they were making sobriety jokes about him on TV a few days later.

Just very hard for me to believe.

 

[Veer_G]

Beyond trying to explain the overall climate of the 1960s, it's hard to describe the depth and the strength of the belief of some Americans in what has been called the "Camelot legend."

Death of Sen. Edward Kennedy brings close to Camelot legend; Ted last of big name Kennedy brothers - NY Daily News

[video=youtube;K_qysmz-d-Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_qysmz-d-Y[/video]



People truly believed that the world was changing in a profoundly fundamental spiritual way and that these men, all of a common bond, were at the forefront of the change that was being undertaken. Their deaths were taken quite personally by individual Americans everywhere, even among many of those who were opposed to some of their policies. Listen to the videos. You'll hear the clues.

 

[Mike_Honcho]

The short version across America is NO. This is revisionist history through the modern liberal media.

 

[EddieNFL]

Also, we were just entering the age of information. Few "regular" people knew much about high profile persons unless it was reported on CBS, ABC or NBC. When Ted Kennedy died everyone knew his shortcomings.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

I wasnt alive yet, but even I know you didnt hear much when living in the woods back then. Washington DC seems a million miles away from where my family grew up. Those people really arent directly involved in our lives in any way, so no it didnt effect anyone down here where my familys from.

Like I was telling another member here, the local Sheriff and the DNR officer is the law of the land where Im from. Outside of that, it doesnt much pertain to us.

Speaking of the woods, anyone here ever lived or grew up in the Appalachian Mountains? Specifically the North GA/Tennessee area? Is there good shooting locations up there? Im thinking on getting me some property in that area if Ill be able to do some 1000+ yard shooting whenever I want...