Kennedy echoes, November 1963
22 November, 1963—Friday evening, and la branche de Paris is gathered in the big meeting room of the Mission Home at 3, rue de Lota, for a fête. Pretty much like branch and ward parties everywhere: mainly a sequence of displays of various local talents.

And then the news came in (I don’t recall exactly how), that John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated in Dallas. Jollification ended. Somebody pronounced a rather somber closing prayer to end the gathering. And folks just wandered away.
The next morning, I walked down toward the Bois de Boulogne, passing the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (l’OTAN—remember when France was part of that?) and was moved to photography (below) by the sight of all the flags at half-staff. Folks were nicer to us as Americans over the next few days than at any other time I can recall.
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