Puerto Ricans attacking Truman, we said it was politics, but in the case of Kennedy it was
 just

G: I should not forget that President Roosevelt was shot at in Miami in 1933.

M: That is right.

G: Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago was killed instead [he was riding in Roosevelt's open
 touring car]. By the way, the assassin in that case was tried, sentenced, and executed
 within thirty-eight days of his crime.

M: Since that time you have had the assassination of Robert Kennedy which, though there
 might have been a minimal political motivation in that, was than it was
 politically motivated. And both the attacks on Ford were unrelated to politics, and so was
 the attack on Reagan. So you have these kind of non-political, deranged, strange people
 out there who are now deciding to shoot the president. Whether or not that started with
 the attack on Kennedy, [I do not know].

G: Senator, thank you very much for your time. It is the twentieth anniversary of that event
 [John F. Kennedy's death], and I thank you for sharing it with us.

M: What is curious about it is that most everybody remembers just what they were doing
 when they got the word [of Kennedy's death]. It is one of those psychological things.

G: We have fifteen seconds, where were you?

M: I had gone to a restaurant near the Capitol right about noon when they called and said the
 president has been shot and called us over to the Senate floor. I talked to lots of young
 people, people who were eight years old [about that]. A niece of mine said she was
 helping her mother paint the kitchen [when she heard that Kennedy had been shot].

G: Yes, everyone remembers it. I want to thank you very much for coming to the University
 of Florida. I want to thank Accent, the student group which has made possible your visit.
 Thanks again for being with me on this program.











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