assassination
We started this summer, asking our readers what they remember about the day in November when our president was shot in Dallas.
To commemorate President John F. Kennedy, this blog will update in more or less "real time" as events unfolded on TV and radio 50 years ago, starting with the arrival of Jack and Jackie in Dallas on Friday, Nov. 22, and ending with the president's funeral on Monday, Nov. 25.
by Alan Moll
by Dave Farmer I was a senior in high school in Joliet, Ill. when I first heard JFK had been shot. Entering my next class, I saw my classmates standing silently near a radio as the announcement was made that JFK was dead! Several female classmates began sobbing as I fought back tears myself,…
by Robert Proctor
by Julie Burnett
by Wendy Weber
by Dennis Stiffler, 69, Port Orchard, Wash.
Timothy Kelley, Age 64
"There are still times when I hear 'Hail to the Chief' playing, and for a split second think I will see him coming down the steps of Air Force One or on TV, still young and still alive. Or maybe I am unconsciously wishing myself to the past, when I was young and so many more of my family and…