{"id":2426,"date":"2011-11-22T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2011-11-22T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T12:00:21","slug":"uconn-says-goodbye-to-an-inspirational-leader-november-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/11\/22\/uconn-says-goodbye-to-an-inspirational-leader-november-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Says Goodbye to an Inspirational Leader \u2013 November 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the New Frontier. Full of \u201cvigah\u201d, offering service programs like the Peace Corps, and stressing physical fitness and 50 mile hikes. Later it would be romanticized as Camelot and dampened by revelations of personal failings, but in 1963, many young Americans were still enthralled by the youthful President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.\u00a0 It came to an end on a November morning in Dallas, and within minutes, television and radio news brought the word that the president was dead.\u00a0 After receiving the Associated Press bulletin, WHUS, the student radio station, turned a monitor out a window so that those passing the Student Union Building could hear the latest news.\u00a0 In a special Saturday edition November 23, the <em>Connecticut Daily Campus<\/em> reported on the scene in the Student Union Lobby: &#8220;The shock grew and so did the crowd. They were more hopeful and at the same time more fearful. Rumor said he was dying. Everyone took another glimpse at the AP or UPI wire services and waited and prayed &#8230; Then the television announcer said, &#8216;President Kennedy is dead.&#8217; It took a while until the meaning of the words were felt. Then they wept.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2427\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/jfk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2427\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/jfk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorial to John F. Kennedy, 1964 Nutmeg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;Mark J. Roy, University Communications (retired)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the New Frontier. Full of \u201cvigah\u201d, offering service programs like the Peace Corps, and stressing physical fitness and 50 mile hikes. Later it would be romanticized as Camelot and dampened by revelations of personal failings, but in 1963, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/11\/22\/uconn-says-goodbye-to-an-inspirational-leader-november-1963\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-D8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}