The underground film world continued working through the day Kennedy was assassinated.

Evidence

Cornell was shaken by the assassination of President Kennedy only days before his show, but Mekas assured him it was unnecessary to postpone. The underground was undeterred. Andy Warhol and his assistant Gerard Malanga spent the afternoon of November 22 silk-screening frame enlargements from Warhol’s serial film Kiss. (A few months later Warhol would be making silk screens of Kennedy’s traumatized widow.) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 480

Categorization

• SEED: The juxtaposition of a national trauma against an underground’s unflinching work schedule is an essay angle on how subcultures process historical rupture.