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Show 4 Two years after the assassination, a public opinion poll by Louis Harris showed that nearly three of every four Americans said they still thought about it frequently and felt sad.8 Moreover, when a national cross-section was asked which events of the past decade made them "feel ashamed to be an American," the Kennedy assassination topped the list. Beyond such emotional reactions, the Kennedy assassi- nation prompted some serious soul-searching. At Brandeis University, an Institute on Violence was established in direct response to the events in Dallas on November 22, 1963, surrounding them. and the moral and psychological climate "It is our business to make some sense out of violence if we are to understand its manifestations and hopefully to exert a measure of control over them," said Dr. Norton E° Long, Brandeis, professor of community government at at the first Brandeis Conference on Violence.9 Out of this and other efforts to probe the problem came such questions as: or irrational act? Is political assassination a rational (Since the first "assassins" got their name from the alleged practice of taking hashish to induce ecstatic visions of paradise before setting out to face possible death, 2A the much-repeated notion that assassination 8Published in the Deseret News, November 22, 1965, gLong, position paper for Conference on Violence, December 11, 1964, p. l. p. |
