One last JFK poll just to prove or disprove a theory I have.

[Major Hogwash]

26. My family never talked about politics.

Until JFK was assassinated.

My mom didn't want me to watch the news because so much of it was bad news at the time.
She thought it would upset me, and cause me egregious harm of some sort.
Back then, I watched how Black people were being firehosed down in the South.
Later, I even watched tv when some Buddhists lit themselves on fire to protest the Vietnam War.
So, my mom told me that I wasn't allowed to watch the news.

Big mistake.

Because then I wondered why, why was the news so damned bad that I wasn't supposed to watch it.
So, I began to sneak in to the living room to watch the news whenever the news was on.
I would talk to my dad about what was going on sometimes.
My older brother would talk to him about the news, too, but he always put me down because he said I didn't know what I was talking about.

And so, later on I became a news junky of sorts, and I started reading the newspaper on a daily basis by the time I was in the 6th grade.
So I would kind of know what I was talking about.

The excuse that I used back then at that time was that I was just reading the comics.
Instead, I was reading most of the articles written by the reporters of those days, so I could discuss the current events taking place at the time with my dad and with my older brother and his friends.