There was a shout. “The president has been shot,” a Daily Bruin staffer announced to the newsroom. Don Harrison remembers dozens of students gathering to watch a machine print out the breaking headlines line by line. President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Harrison was working as an editorial editor for the Bruin when the […]
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Reprise: Country mourns the loss of a great symbol of American ideals
Editor’s Note: This column was originally published in the Daily Bruin on Nov. 27, 1963 under the headline “Embodies America” BY VIC POLLARD One man, by the simple and seemingly meaningless act of pulling the trigger on a rifle, has thrown the entire world into a state of mourning for the man he killed. Why? […]
Reprise: Confusion in the wake of Kennedy’s death
Editor’s note: this column was originally published in the Daily Bruin on Nov. 27, 1963, five days after the death of John F. Kennedy, under the headline “Questions.” One sentence was edited for sensitive language. By Don Harrison He was assassinated. And so was his alleged assassin. Do we shrug our shoulders and turn slowly […]