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SubTitle: Where I Was When JFK...
Posted by: rs on 11/23/1997@12:18hrs:
In Reply to: JFK Assassination posted by: Dennis on 11/23/1997@11:10hrs:
I was enroute to the bank from school in NYC and had stopped into a record store on 8th Street in the Village off Waverly. It was quiet in the store as I browsed when the phone rang and the clerk answered it. He picked up the phone, put it to his ear, listened, then jerked and shouted "Oh, no!" and said the president's been shot. I rushed out for more news and passed a brokerage house with one of those stock quote machines in the window. People were gathering, catching the updates as they came over the wire. I went from brokerage window to brokerage window, picking up the news, sketchy at first, then getting worse and worse. That weekend, roommates and I decided to visit the girlfriend of one in Holyoke. On the drive we were listening to the radio and heard the announcement that Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot in police custody by Jack Ruby. We'd been sad, but now we felt sick. Nothing was ever the same since. For months I said nothing, then one evening at a friend's over a drink we got to talking and a lot of pent up feeling came out. Many of us admired JFK and put a lot of hope in his youthful intelligence and perceived goodness. We forgave him the Bay of Pigs and felt he'd protected us in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The fact he was good looking and attractive, no doubt, to women, seemed perfectly natural. The fact that he made the best, or worst, of this aspect has shown this hero to have feet of clay, as, indeed, do all heroes once we get past the romance and into the truth. I'm stll sorry for his death. -rs-