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Payton, 66, is African-American. An historian and retired museum curator, he has traced his ancestry from the pre-revolution days of slavery. Three of his ancestors were lynched in 1860 close to where Kennedy was shot. There is no memorial for them. “We loved Kennedy,” Payton said during an interview in his garden. “He looked good. He sounded good. He wasn’t one of those old Dixiecrats that we had been so used to seeing and hearing as our local politicians were, old men who were just one generation of wearing overalls … So now we have a smooth talker from Boston and he was going to make everything all right. And once he got killed, it was almost like ‘Where do we go from here?’ ‘Who do we turn to from here?’… Here this guy is who was here to help everybody and the people in Dallas killed him.”
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:07:17 +0000

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