[R-390] OT JFK assasination...

[wli]

Well, I was a third year medical student working on the *black* charity ward at Baltimore City Hospital. In those days, Baltimore regarded itself as a Southern city with segregation everywhere. The entire hospital literally stopped as Walter Cronkite gave his reports on the TV's. Everyone was stunned. The Emergency Room where I worked that night was completely empty, it was usually full folks with gun and knife wounds in those days... the entire city was likewise in a state of shock and strangely quiet. No sirens, no yells, no car horns. For the first time, the usual gang wars stopped cold, and the cops had nothing to do. 36 hours later, it was back to business as usual.

W. Li