Five days after the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy (which happened near Thanksgiving in 1963), Texas Gov. John Connally, who was also shot, was asked by a reporter if he had any reflections to share .

The answer, given as Connally lay in a hospital bed, sounded like something straight out of 2025.

Connally said he hoped the assassination would shock and stun the nation enough to make people aware of the “cancerous growth” of a society “that breeds a hatred, a bigotry, an intolerance, an indifference, a lawlessness …

“(The assassination) is nothing more than a manifestation of an extremism on both sides that basically is the genesis of our self-destruction, if we are ever going to be destroyed.”

It is disappointing and perhaps even shocking to see how little progres

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