• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    1 year ago

    He also got shot in the chest at the beginning of a speech, calmed everybody down and told the crowd to give the assassin to the police and make sure nobody hurt him, and then spoke for 50 minutes before he left to get medical care.

    He said later that because he wasn’t coughing blood, he was confident the bullet hadn’t pierced his lung, so he could go for a while before needing it looked at.

    Before the invention of TV stupefied everybody, America was fuckin WILD.

      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Back then everybody swam naked in the Potomac. Ben Franklin is another one with written records about it.

        If you see the Potomac River today, you’d wonder what the hell happened, it is absolutely filthy and not even a rat would swim in it. well maybe a rat would drown & die in it.