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Kennedy TragedyOn the
16th of July, John F. Kennedy, with his wife and sister-in-law died in a small plane crash off
Martha's Vineyard.
Their fate was uncertain for a few days, but ultimately searchers located the
wreckage and recovered the bodies. They were buried at sea on July 22 in a private ceremony,
but public memorial services were
held, including one that evening in Old St. Patrick's Cathedral. The tragedy evoked a tremendous
outpouring of sadness and compassion, and deep media coverage. This was, however, especially strong
in the US, although note was certainly taken elsewhere. In any case, the question can be asked
whether there might be a larger reaction in the US than elsewhere. The following graphs show the GCP data
as cumulative Chisquares during the ceremony at St. Patrick's. The first shows
data from all eggs, the second from the US eggs only, and the third shows the data from non-US eggs.
They speak for themselves.
However, nothing is simple when attempting to understand the subtleties of anomalies. The next three figures show the results during the public mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Again there is the global perspective, the US data, and the data from the non-US eggs. There is no differentiation, and no indication of an anomalous deviation. A similar set of analyses for the St. Thomas More private mass also showed no apparently associated anomalies.
A different perspective looks at the crash itself, in the mode of an "earth consciousness" reacting. The time of the crash was probably about 01:30, UTC. A look at the data for the half hour surrounding this point in time is shown in the next figure.
(July, 1999, comments by RDN, analyses by George deBeaumont, except half hour graph).
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