Quotes
| “ | Ladies and gentlemen, we have a press report over the wireless – we hope that it is unconfirmed, but we have to doubt it – the President of the United States has been the victim of an assassination. (loud gasps of shock from the audience) We will play the Funeral March from Beethoven's Third Symphony. | ” |
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—Erich Leinsdorf informing the audience at a BSO performance at Symphony Hall and over WGBH radio of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963, |
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