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Von Bontee on Did Beatlemania help recover the nation from Kennedy's assassination?

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AliJaggerMcCartney said

Let's try this again.

As I mentioned, I'm back from the dead (offline since 2012).

The Beatles arrived in the US less than 4 months after President Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas. The nation was still in mourning during their arrival. The shadow of sadness began to dissipate a few months after the boys' arrival, were they responsible? 

I think this whole theory - Beatles helping *America* has become a bit of unquestioned folklore. (And intelligently covered in Jonothan Gould's well-worth-reading "Can't Buy Me Love", if you come across a copy.) Certainly a lot of young Americans succumbed to ...


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