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The Postal Service "Sleeping In"
Three Lions, Hulton Archive
The assassination of JFK, November 22, 1963
You may think the emotional electro-pop of Ben Gibbard's Postal Service is the last place to find historical references, but "Sleeping In" deals with JFK's assassination head on by focusing on the (alleged) shooter Lee Harvey Oswald. History and break up songs -- themes to look forward to on the group's next album, perhaps?
