Would you consider the JFK assassination as the end of americas innocence?

Question: Would you consider the JFK assassination as the end of americas innocence!?

i mean after that was MLK, watergate, hippies, anti-government, terrorism, america boos its president!.!.!.i mean before that it seemed that everyone was patriotic, and aside from racism of course, people looked like they were having a good timeWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Not really!. I mean the US did have Japanese Camps in the desert for all Japanese-Americans during the WW2!. Thats bad but I see your point!.
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9/11 was the true end of America's innocence!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

America was never innocentWww@QuestionHome@Com

I would say Americas innocence ended with the election of JFK!.

He wrecked the country with his government sanctioned give aways!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No I would consider the initial genocide of the Native Americans when the first "Americans" came to North and South America being the end of America's innocence!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think that's just baby-boomer nostalgia!. The fact is that the 50's and 60's were dangerous times in terms of the Cold War!. America was never really "innocent" in my own opinion!. We had Slavery, Civil War, brutal reconstruction and Southern "Redemption," Indian removal and brutal Indian Wars, major scandals in the Grant and Harding administrations, sex scandals (Peggy Eaton, during the Jackson Administration comes to mind) etc, etc!. It seems that some people misremember and feel that everything was all hunky-dory until Kennedy was killed!. It wasn't!. The fact that things seemed to get much worse in the two decades following his assassination may seem to reinforce that false idea of American innocence, but it is a false idea!. America may have been provincial and unworldly for most of its history, but it was never innocent!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

There were lots of other social trends going on at the same time (1960's) that contributed to the change in attitudes towards our national identity!. You can use the assassination as a pivotal event, but JFK's death without an era dominated by a youth movement based on a burgeoning suburban middle class wouldn't have had the same effects!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i think the end of american innocence happended when the white people came and killed all my people off!.!.!.

America was never innocent!. it was built on murder, slavery and lies!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

right era, wrong event!. it was the hippies and the subversiveness of the movement and similar movements!. now some of those acid dropping hippies are in congress!. something to think about!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i think each generation would have their own *end of innocence* moment!.!.!.

think about it - every decade has the moment when it felt like the world would never be the same!.

not everyone's moment is the same - but everyone has one!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

thaink it did had a lot to do with itWww@QuestionHome@Com

Do you really mean naive!?Www@QuestionHome@Com