As written by William Manchester in '' Death of a President '' : An Oklahoma City physician beamed at a grief-stricken visitor and said , " Good , I hope they got Jackie . " In a small Connecticut city a doctor called ecstatically across Main Street — to an internist who worshiped Kennedy — " The joy ride 's over . This is one deal Papa Joe ca n't fix . " A woman visiting Amarillo , the second most radical city in Texas , was lunching in the restaurant adjacent to her motel when a score of rejoicing students burst in from a high school directly across the street . " Hey , great , JFK 's croaked ! " one shouted with flagrant delight , and the woman , leaving as rapidly as she could , noticed that several diners were smiling back at the boy . In Dallas itself a man whooped and tossed his expensive Stetson in the air , and it was in a wealthy Dallas suburb that the pupils of a fourth-grade class , told that the President of the United States had been murdered in their city , burst into spontaneous applause . On December 1 , after Malcolm X made a speech , reporters asked him for a comment about the assassination of President Kennedy . The spokesman for the Nation of Islam said that it was a case of " chickens coming home to roost " and added that " chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad ; they 've always made me glad . " '' The New York Times '' wrote , " in further criticism of Mr. Kennedy , the Muslim leader cited the murders of Patrice Lumumba , Congo leader , of Medgar Evers , civil rights leader , and of the Negro girls bombed earlier this year in a Birmingham church . These , he said , were instances of other ' chickens coming home to roost ' . " The newspaper noted that his comments were greeted by " loud applause and laughter " from the all-black audience , although it quoted an unnamed audience member who told a reporter he applauded Malcolm X 's remarks " more for the fact that he had the nerve to say it than that I really approved of it "
Negro girls bombed
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Reactions to the assassination of John F. Kennedy