In November 1964, days before the first anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, ITN sent Peter Woods to assess the effect of the killing on the city.
Noting that there was no sign of any memorial at Dealey Plaza and that few people left flowers any longer, Woods then asked residents how they felt the city should deal with the expected commemorations, writes Ian Searcey.
Though accepting that Mr Kennedy was “a great man” and that the events were terrible, all of those who spoke to Woods believed it would be best for it all to be forgotten and that there was no real need to make any sort of commemoration on 23 November.
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One interviewee went as far as to say that the best thing for the city of Dallas would be “to wipe the slate clean”.
Elsewhere in the city, Woods observes that although after the shooting “sensation hunters” were paying Lee Harvey Oswald’s former boarding house £10 a night to stay in the rooms the assassin used, one year on, the establishment had several rooms for rent, “among them Oswald’s”.
Likewise the cinema where the suspected killer was arrested, which had done a roaring trade after the killing, was now finding business back to normal.
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Elsewhere, the strip club run by local businessman Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Oswald before he could stand trial, had been shut for a year, while Ruby himself, convicted of murder and facing the death penalty, prepared his appeal from the local county jail.
Mayor Erik Jonsson had the last word, admitting that Dallas had been forced to examine itself in the wake of the Kennedy killing and, as a result, residents were trying not to be “the biggest or the richest (city) but the best we know how to make it”.