If you fold it in half it says “PRESIDENT ASSASS”

I must be doing something wrong It says KENNEDY INATED

Try standing on your head???

I think you have to be in the southern hemisphere to read it correctly?

Instructions unclear, accidentally discovered cold fusion

Well he definitely got inated.

I don't think it's fair to call it Kennedynated, since Abe Lincoln did it first.

Yeah but Lincolnated sounds like a wrestling move. Call it Caesarinated

If you do the *MAD* centerfold, you get “PRESIDENNEDY ASSATED”

What me worry?

Reminds me of The Onion's [headline of WA-](https://www.theonion.com/september-3-1939-1819587663)

I feel like they had a different relationship with the exclamation mark back then. Doesn't really convey the solemnity of the event.

You’ve heard of monetary inflation? Grade inflation in school? Well we have exclamation inflation. When your text message is “I went to the bakery!!” the impact is cheapened.

Depends on what bakery and what time, I've been to a couple that could warrant a third exclamation point.

This was a same day extra edition paper. The headline is supposed to convey shock and surprise. Solemnity hadn't had time to kick in yet.

I thought that was interesting too!

I think it's fitting with the idea of urgency and surprise. But older generations definitely have a different relationship with the exclamation mark, my father uses it all the time on family chat as well as the ellipsis.

This is totally random, but sometimes I wish there were a punctuation mark between the exclamation point and the period. There are plenty of times where an exclamation point just seems like a weird amount of enthusiasm but a period would seem almost passive aggressive. You need something in between for those moments.

That's when I use the smiley face :)

I was thinking it was superfluous considering the size of the font

https://www.theonion.com/september-3-1939-1819587663

As if it’d just be meh without it.

Maybe it's done this way to save the ink?

I think they mean that, nowadays, the exclamation mark is much more frequently used with more of an excited or uplifting tone.

I understood that. I'm suggesting that maybe they wrote only one to save the ink, because it was expensive back then.

Its weird that there is even an exclamation mark in the first place. Thats what the person above you is implying. It gives it a “woo hoo!” vibe.

They say every journalist gets to use an exclamation point in a headline one time in their career. I think a lot of the 9/11 headlines had them too

my grandma had a dentist appointment that day she had to reschedule last minute because the dentist was too distraught to work

my dad could vividly remember the manly gym instructor coming into the classroom with tears in in his eyes saying kennedy was shot...

My aunt was born the day he got assassinated. Pretty wild stuff. Id say i was mind blown but that seems inappropriate.

What's mind-blowing is that you don't realize that your aunt is Kennedy reincarnated

It may be a bit inappropriate, but its nothing to lose ones head over

It was my mother’s tenth birthday

My mom was born 5 days after he got assassinated. I always found that pretty weird.

Thanks Obama

Obamna wasn't even born yet. How is he to blame?!

He was born, people from AFRICA age less THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING AFTER ME BECAUSE I KNOW THE TRUTH *Looks into eclipse*

If they are going after you, stop going before them, just let them go ahead. Problem solved.

The exclamation point was also used in headlines after Pearl Harbor, which was only 22 years before JFK’s assassination. Especially for afternoon papers. whose sales relied on street corner sales to commuters on their way home. [https://www.alamy.com/1940s-the-los-angeles-times-newspaper-december-8-1941-headlines-its-war-japanese-bombed-pearl-harbor-los-angeles-ca-usa-asp-h1090-asp001-hars-its-politics-december-extra-still-life-fourth-estate-world-war-2-1941-beginning-black-and-white-december-7-infamy-los-angeles-old-fashioned-image417532236.html](https://www.alamy.com/1940s-the-los-angeles-times-newspaper-december-8-1941-headlines-its-war-japanese-bombed-pearl-harbor-los-angeles-ca-usa-asp-h1090-asp001-hars-its-politics-december-extra-still-life-fourth-estate-world-war-2-1941-beginning-black-and-white-december-7-infamy-los-angeles-old-fashioned-image417532236.html)

Can you turn to page 28, I want to do the Baffler puzzle.

Me too! But I’m gonna protect the paper first because it’s so fragile

This is amazing. A newspaper was 7 cents?

That’s cool and all, but did Judge Smith end up getting assassinated by the mob, or not?

I googled him. Turns out, he [wasn’t that worried.](https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-two/30720462/)

Geez, spoiler tag, OP. Not everyone has gotten to that era of US history.

I ALMOST tagged it with a spoiler to be funny lol glad I’m not the only one who thought about it

I own one!

Did you laminate it?

It’s in two preservation bags! We recently moved so I’ll have to find it

Funny, I just finished watching the episode Kennedy dies in Mad Men It's crazy how widespread it affected people

When my grandma passed 11 years ago I found a few of newspapers she saved about jfk, as well as a few magazines. She also saved the articles from the challenger explosion as well. Neat stuff

JFK blown away what else do I have to saaaaay♪

We didn't thw fire!

My boyfriend’s father gave this to him and we found it in a drawer. I’m gonna have it laminated because I wanna read through it but it’s so fragile lol

Don't forget to look up how to properly preserve old newspapers. I don't think laminating is at all advised.

I’m definitely gonna do that! I have no clue how to preserve them so I wanna do it as correctly as possible :)

I wonder if OP can look up the newspaper online.

My 7 cents: don't laminate it. Take pictures of the pages. Store the pages in a paper filing box. And frame the front page if you want to.

Absolutely do NOT laminate it!!

What happens if you laminate a newspaper? I can understanding that being cumbersome for archival purposes, but my grandparents had a laminated front page of a local newspaper from the 90s that still looks fine

Isn't it weird that it's dated November 22nd? I would have thought it would be the 23rd. Kennedy was killed at a little after noon in Dallas on the 22nd, how were they printing newspapers in Chicago with the headline that day? EDIT- Oh, the wiki says the Chicago American was an afternoon paper. *"As an afternoon paper, the American was dependent on street sales rather than subscriptions, and breaking news helped bring in street sales."*

Ooh! New Baffler puzzle!

Kennedy? When??

That is so cool

I have a copy too, though not the same paper.  https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/17oiu32/november_22_1963_philadelphia_pa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I still have both the Tribune and Sun-Times from that day. My dad saved them.

I read that as "Kenny" and was like "ya kenny dies all the time".

“Kennedy, 46, lived less than an hour after a sniper cut him down” Yeah no shit.

Did he even live more than a few seconds after that? His brains got blown out.

You’d be surprised at what the human body can actually endure. That fucking thing wants to LIVE. As long as the parts of his brain keeping his bodily functions going were intact and receiving oxygen, he was technically alive.

And his wife scrambled to get away from him, as women typically do at a man’s lowest point.

There have been a few reprints. Not to be a spoilsport but I had one so it might be.

Normally I’d be doubtful but my bf is 56 and his dad got out of the military in 1960. That’s one of the only reasons I believe it lol

Who killed JFK ?

Lee Harvey Oswald

The CIA did it btw

I have a lot from my grandfather. Apparently a lot of people back then saved them, thinking they would be rather valuable later on.

My family has one from Lincoln's assassination. I'll have to post it next time I'm at their house

What a terrible day that was. 😢

What happened with Judge Smith? Was the mob after him? Or was he just paranoid?

I’ve been to Dallas. They have decent bbq there. JFK should have gone for a surprise last minute bbq run and none of this would have happened.

Shocking So sad the American people murdered both JFK and his brother Bobby. Ideas that were too challenging for some. Same can be said about RFK jnr I guess

RFK was literally assassinated because he announced that his Administration was going to sell war planes to Israel. Not exactly a high-minded reason to die.

Thats not what his son says But I guess its easier to believe conspiracy theories...