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Everybody's movingly sad about that assassination scene (6)

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I believe the answer is:

dallas

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'assassination scene' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'everybody's movingly sad about' is the wordplay.
'everybody' becomes 'all' (I've seen this before).
'movingly' indicates an anagram.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'sad' anagrammed gives 'das'.
'all' inserted into 'das' is 'DALLAS'.

'that' is the link.

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(Other definitions for dallas that I've seen before include "JR, Sue Ellen and Bobby lived there" , "assassination site" , "American city where JFK was killed" , "Texan commercial city" , "Mysteriously, all sad in the US city" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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