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"Alan Erskine" wrote in
: "Mitchell Holman" wrote in message ... I was born in August '64; which means that I was conceived in the month Mr Kennedy was murdered. I only found that out a couple of years ago. I'm not one for omens, but considering my love of all-things-space, it's quite a coincidence. Mr Kennedy was responsible for starting the Apollo program and was also something of a 'space junkie'. What a sad end to a most fascinating life. May Mr Kennedy rest in peace for all eternity. I was in 8th grade at the time, and remember the school loudspeakers announcing the event and the commotion and confusion. I have a lot more images of what happened, these are the only ones aviation related. |
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"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
... I was born in August '64; which means that I was conceived in the month Mr Kennedy was murdered. I only found that out a couple of years ago. I'm not one for omens, but considering my love of all-things-space, it's quite a coincidence. Mr Kennedy was responsible for starting the Apollo program and was also something of a 'space junkie'. What a sad end to a most fascinating life. May Mr Kennedy rest in peace for all eternity. -- Alan Erskine |
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My buddies and I were at the airport when the motorcade came by. We saw
the Prez and wife and everyone else. We jumped in my car and zoomed downtown and hurried to the corner of Houston and Main where we saw them again. We left the scene right then and were completley unaware of the event that would happen less than two minutes later. As a matter of fact, we wern't even listening to the radio but learned of the shooting while we were at Kenray Ford looking at a car. (This must have been a half hour or mare later) A salesman told us. Mitchell Holman wrote: |
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in
: "Mitchell Holman" wrote in message ... I was born in August '64; which means that I was conceived in the month Mr Kennedy was murdered. I only found that out a couple of years ago. I'm not one for omens, but considering my love of all-things-space, it's quite a coincidence. Mr Kennedy was responsible for starting the Apollo program and was also something of a 'space junkie'. Being a teenager in 60's almost required a fixation on the space program. We could name all the astronauts, watched every liftoff and splashdown and watched the sky at sunset and dawn for satellites going overhead. A great distraction from the otherwise bad news of the day, race riots, Vietnam, the Cold War, et al. |
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I was a brand new college freshman at Ohio U. We walked into our government
(no kidding) class, when the prof came in a few minutes later crying and told us what had just happened and that he saw no reason to continue, turned and walked out. We just sat there stunned, with our first lesson in "the real world" government. Four years later it was graduation, US Navy and Viet Nam. Lessons continued. Jim "Mitchell Holman" wrote in message ... |
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Alan Erskine wrote:
"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message ... I was born in August '64; which means that I was conceived in the month Mr Kennedy was murdered. I only found that out a couple of years ago. I'm not one for omens, but considering my love of all-things-space, it's quite a coincidence. Mr Kennedy was responsible for starting the Apollo program and was also something of a 'space junkie'. What a sad end to a most fascinating life. May Mr Kennedy rest in peace for all eternity. -- Alan Erskine Alan, I am one month older than you but for your love of things space ;-) My mum was born on the day the UFO crashed at Roswell. Maybe I am Alien ;-) -- Upload/view images at www.warbirdz.net Join the Warbirdz Forum Channel http://www.warbirdz.net/phpBB2/index.php |
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I was old enough to have learned to respect Kennedy when he was shot. I was
very devastated by the news, and I can still remember our neighbour telling me over the back fence. He was one of the world's greats, IMHO. Doug "Mitchell Holman" wrote in message ... |
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I was in 8th grade at the time, and remember
the school loudspeakers announcing the event and the commotion and confusion. I have a lot more images of what happened, these are the only ones aviation related. ___________________________________________ I was in 9th grade, in a Catholic high school run by the Christian brothers in Alexandria, LA, when we got the news. I remember like yesterday the first announcement that came in over the ancient wooden classroom PA speaker, that the President was shot. To say that we were stunned was an understatement. It was unbelievable. If I remember correctly, thr brother teaching our class said we should pray in silence for the President. I know even the agnostics among us did. Kennedy was the very first Catholic President, and we all felt a special bond with him because of this. It didn't seem long after the first announcement that the terrible, terrible news that Kennedy was shot dead came over the PA. They closed the school, and since it was too early for the busses, I decided to walk on my own the five miles back to England AFB, where I lived with my family in Base Housing. Truly, the world of post-WWII American optimism and confidence came to a shattering end with that news. I can't remember a blacker national Thanksgiving than the four days that followed. The only thing like it in my lifetime was 9/11. Brian O'Neill |
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Brian O'Neill wrote:
I was in 8th grade at the time, and remember the school loudspeakers announcing the event and the commotion and confusion. I have a lot more images of what happened, these are the only ones aviation related. ___________________________________________ I was in 9th grade, in a Catholic high school run by the Christian brothers in Alexandria, LA, when we got the news. I remember like yesterday the first announcement that came in over the ancient wooden classroom PA speaker, that the President was shot. To say that we were stunned was an understatement. It was unbelievable. If I remember correctly, thr brother teaching our class said we should pray in silence for the President. I know even the agnostics among us did. Kennedy was the very first Catholic President, and we all felt a special bond with him because of this. It didn't seem long after the first announcement that the terrible, terrible news that Kennedy was shot dead came over the PA. They closed the school, and since it was too early for the busses, I decided to walk on my own the five miles back to England AFB, where I lived with my family in Base Housing. Truly, the world of post-WWII American optimism and confidence came to a shattering end with that news. I can't remember a blacker national Thanksgiving than the four days that followed. The only thing like it in my lifetime was 9/11. Brian O'Neill Brian, You went to Menard? Cool. Those were the days when it was boys only. The girls went to Prompt Succor. By the time I went there it was Co-Ed. When JFK was shot, I was in Monroe, in a 5th grade classroom of a Catholic Elementery school. West Wing, Room 3, Row 1, Seat 3. Not that it made a big impression on me or anything. KENG |
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