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Article: It was 33 years ago today...
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- Jerusalem Post
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- November 22, 1996
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Yosef Goell
Jerusalem Post
11-22-1996
'I cried and cried and cried. The last time I recalled crying that hard for a public figure was when president Roosevelt died just before the end of World War II."
Elaine Kallet, a poet and artist from Jerusalem who made aliya in 1988, was recalling her reactions to the news of president John F. Kennedy's assassination, 33 years ago today. The crying, the feelings of devastation and fear, figured in the reminiscences of four former Americans living here, all of whom drew a possible analogy between the public reactions to JFK's assassination and that of Yitzhak Rabin's last year.
All four remembered vividly where they had been and the circumstances ...