yes, I went to public school, and we also said the Lord's Prayer every day too.
K for me was more like 1952.
I recall the Korean War on TV, and even the 1952 Democratic convention. There was a famous photo of Adlai Stevenson with a hole worn in the sole of his shoe.
https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010 ... -his-shoe/And his proponents at the convention were holding up these large signs of a shoe with a hole in it, with the slogan All the way with Adlai. I remember little else of it though.