Name: What Dallas Was Like During the JFK Assassination
Uploaded: 2021-01-05T22:19:12.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Dallas Was Like During the JFK Assassination' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Dallas Was Like During the JFK Assassination' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-05. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience I had a dentist in Dallas when I was a kid they used
to
hypnotize people and as you know he's gonna drill a cavity for me and I said
I'd like for you to hypnotize me and so it was you know your your mouth is
feeling like a block of wood your mouth is feeling like a block of wood nurse I
think he's ready and I said no I'm not but then the only other time that I had
what was kind of success in being hypnotized was in 1983 it was a 20th
anniversary of the Kennedy assassination and I had grown up in Dallas during
the
assassination there was a story that was quite widely circulated that school
children in Dallas had laughed when they heard the news and I wasn't sure that
I
hadn't been one of them I remember being astonished I remember gaping I
remember
you know did a ha ha ha come out of my mouth I don't know if it did you know
but
I I think I smiled in amazement I'm not really sure I mean you have to go back
to what Dallas was like at that time it was hysterical you know the the
politics
were off the rails and Kennedy was hated although not in my family but you know
there was this sense of Dallas as being a separate entity from the rest of the
country and that Kennedy was the enemy and I was anxious that maybe I had been
one of those people that laughed and so I had a friend who was a therapist who
did hypnosis and I asked her to hypnotize me and see if she could take me back
to the classroom and
from the rest of the country and that Kennedy was the enemy and I was anxious
that maybe I had been
one of those people that laughed and so I had a friend who was a therapist who
did hypnosis and
I asked her to hypnotize me and see if she could take me back to the classroom
and and help me
remember and so she put me under regressed my memories you know to the point
that I hear the
ding ding PA system and the choked voice of our principal coming on and did she
tell you you're
hearing these things no she's asking me you know what could recall yeah what do
I recall and I I
remember seeing you know the face of my friend Steve zinc one of my classmates
in the algebra class
and I couldn't get it myself and so she gave me a post hypnotic suggestion that
I would have a dream
and it would reveal to me you know what I what I had experienced and so I did
have a very vivid dream
and it was I was flying in a helicopter over the canopy of what I thought was
Vietnam jungle and you
were looking for a child and I saw it in the top of a canopy just lying on top
of the tree and if we
got closer I realized it was actually just a doll with his little X eyes and
that was the dream and I
I decided from that that I was that the me that I thought you know might have
laughed was just a
figment you know an effigy of some sort and that you know I really hadn't
laughed you'd have to
understand what a scarring experience it was to have been from Dallas at that
period of time and how
everybody in the world hated you it's just strange thing to try to remember
what was your reaction and
how old are you at the time 13 I guess yeah does but it's a very strange thing
did you feel like you
felt guilt at the possibility that you had laughed yeah I did I didn't want to
be one of those people
you know and uh you know I have friends from Dallas who do remember people in
their classroom laughing and
my experience that I you know the real memory I have of it is that people
looked around and just stunned
astonishment and part of the astonishment I think was that we just thought
nothing would ever happen in
Dallas it was you know on the one hand it was totally crazy in the other hand
it was totally paralyzed you
you know there was just a sense the conformity was so powerful that you know
you felt imprisoned by
uh the sameness of every day every thought uh you know just it's very very
rigid environment so some
spectacularly unique occurrence like the president getting assassinated right
Dealey Plaza just seemed
impossible oddly enough no I mean that was the thing you know if it's going to
happen anywhere it
seemed like Dallas would be the right spot because they hated Kennedy and even
that morning I went
out to get the newspaper and there was that famous ad welcome Mr. Kennedy to
Dallas you know just this
bleak thing and then there was uh you know it's just how was it bleak oh it
made all these absurd
charges about you know his aiding communists and so on and race you know race
they had a racist undertone
to it uh it was there was yeah there it is it shows up huh you can see how it's
can't read all that well it
says welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas it you can see that it is saying a city a
city it's about who we are and we
are not you and uh it was uh uh it was almost and then they're in the same
newspaper maybe your guy can
find it there is a wanted oh no wait a minute it's separate it was on top of
the newspaper was a wanted
poster for Kennedy with full face and profile somebody had placed it on top of
that and uh like wanted for
treason or something like that there it is wow wanted for treason yeah that was
on our doorstep that morning
so uh that was the atmosphere of Dallas in 1963. wow there was a
there was a you know Adlai Stevenson had come
to Dallas in October the month before to make a speech about the united nations
and he was the un
ambassador and he was assaulted uh and uh he went out to greet the crowd he was
booed down
and by the way i think lee harvey oswald was in the audience that night
but he went out and tried to talk to the crowd and stanley marcus was his
escort and he said don't
don't try that ally you know this is crazy and but people were really worked up
they you know
this woman was holding a sign and she whapped it down on top of ambassador stevenson's
head and
the sign said if you seek jesus seek peace ask jesus so that's i at some reason
that that always
struck me as the dallas and i just want to say as i'm talking about dallas in
the past
dallas of today is a totally different place and i think in some ways you know
it was so chastened
and humbled by that horrible experience i've said in the past if kennedy had to
die somewhere i'm
grateful he did in dallas because it made that city a far better place and you
remember the police
killings a few years ago nine cops yeah the way it was a block away from the
dealy plaza but the way in
which that city handled that tragedy by comparison was so magnificent you know
i just i have a lot of
admiration for the city that dallas has become catch new episodes of the joe rogan
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