I no longer recall much else of what happened historically in the world between the late November 1963 days of mourning for JFK and the end of my first term as a high school junior at Broad Ripple High School in early 1964. And about the only thing I now recall doing in December 1963 in Indianapolis, during Christmas Vacation that year, was taking a bus alone to Downtown Indianapolis; and, alone, spending an afternoon rainy day inside a downtown movie theater, watching an anti-war movie, titled "The Victors."
This movie, The Victors, reinforced my feeling that helping to preserve world peace and avoid another war was the most important thing for me to be concerned about, politically, in 1964.
Yet after viewing The Victors film, I still believed in early 1964 that the main possible threat to world peace came from the foreign policies and actions of the Soviet Union, other communist governments and communists in non-communist "Free World" countries being willing to wage guerrilla war to establish authoritarian, undemocratic "communist dictatorships" in these countries; rather than from the foreign policies and actions of the United States government.
In 1964 I still then, mistakenly, regarded the United States government as a government whose main foreign policy motivation was to preserve world peace and defend freedom around the world against the alleged "threat" to world peace and freedom posed by "world communism." For I was still just an anti-communist liberal, politically, in 1964.
