[Magdalen] Keith's birthday list & thoughts on the Day of the Jackals

[Jay Weigel]

I recall my mother telling me about that. The first time it really hit home
to me, though, was the weekend of Kennedy's assassination.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was awash in tears during a documentary about FDR as they showed the
> outpouring of love and grief across the nation at his death. He had
> truly been a father to the whole country.
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:29 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford
> <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I recall an otherwise uneventful day when I was a student at Pitt, and
> had
> > some business in the Cathedral of Learning. It has elevators since it has
> > 42 storeys. I was speaking with an elevator operator, an African-American
> > man, and for some reason the name of Franklin Roosevelt came up. At the
> > mention of the name, this man in what I'm sure was an automatic gesture,
> > removed his hat. Perhaps he saw a puzzled look on my face. He looked at
> me,
> > looked at his cap, looked at me again and said, "He us feel like he cared
> > about us all."  If that simple gesture were the only thing that loved on
> in
> > after FDR, it would be enough.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>