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In reply to the discussion: John Fitzgerald Kennedy 11-22-1963 Where Were You? [View all]mulsh
(2,959 posts)we were called to line up for assembly and herded into our class rooms. This was a Catholic school.
There Sr. Superior announce the President had been shot in Dallas and we were about to head to the church for a special mass. After mass and lunch we had another extended recess. Teachers and parents looked distressed, a few were crying. The next announcement was that he had died, we headed back to the church for some prayers then school let out.
I remember watching news mostly that weekend. I was watching live early in our morning when Oswald got shot. I not happy they had canceled week end cartoons and David and Goliath. How dare they do such a thing?
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Two of my classmates fathers were world renowned forensic pathologist and worked on Kennedy's autopsy. Years late when they were able to talk about it they both told me "Given the evidence presented to me it was one very lucky gun man who shot and wounded those people"
Also with the exception of one conspiracy theory with in two weeks of the assassination I'd heard every theory I've ever heard from my second grade and some third grade class mates. The theory about Johnson being the assassin came from an Econ professor friend of my in laws about ten years ago.
They say tell the truth, it's easier and no one believes you anyway. That's and the above fellows is why I think it was a lone, lucky gunman.