Big John wrote:
40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at
Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at
20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150
out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on
frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas
and was dead.

May he rest in peace.

Big John


I was about 6 years old in 1st grade Catholic School. They anounced it
over the PA and everyone was listening intently until they said the
buses wouild be arriving early for an early dismissal. Then great chears
went up!!! JFK became a marter for first grade children.

John Roncallo