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1. Sandy Clark

   

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   11/22/2013 11:11 AM

   Beside the Captain and myself, how many of you were around or old enough to have experienced the tragic event? I was a senior in high school and we were just ending a morning class when the word came out. I will never forget one guy in my class saying good, he was glad! Needless to say, we were all pretty shocked at what happened and his comment. At 17, I doubt any of us are very political. All we knew was the President had been killed. What does everyone think about the Warren version versus the forensic tools we have available to analyze the event today? It seems several current forensic pathologists dispute the one gun magical bullet theory and are pretty strong on the idea of a couple of shots from the front, the old grassy Knoll theory. Was it a lone crazy guy, the commies, the mob, the CIA or VP Johnson and his cronies? The autopsy story especially sounds strange by today's standards. The only problem is that it happened in 1963 so how can you determine anything now?

   
   
   
   
2. Larry Allan

   

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   11/22/2013 12:11 PM

   I was 4 at the time and I remember the looks on my parents and grandparents faces and knowing something awful had happened. I think I watched Walter Cronkite when he announced it on live TV, but I've seen the clip so many times, it may well be false memory syndrome

   
   
   
   
3. Corey Eastwood

   

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   11/22/2013 1:11 PM

   I was working on a sewer construction in Berkeley. Heard it on the radio at lunch. I still think it was a conspiracy due to the "magic bullet". Mob? Johnson?

   
   Corey Eastwood CGCS, Stockton Golf & CC, Retired
   
   
4. Peter Bowman

   

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   11/22/2013 1:11 PM

   I was almost four, and being weened off my thumb. Nothing else much mattered.

   
   
   
   
5. Peter Bowman

   

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   11/22/2013 1:11 PM

   Corey Eastwood, CGCS said: I was working on a sewer construction in Berkeley.....?

   
   
   Corey,
   
   You guys must have done a good job in construction. It's still a sewer.
   
   Do you remember what street it was? I lived on Cragmont Ave.

   
   
   
   
6. Kenneth Rue

   

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   11/22/2013 1:11 PM

   I was twelve walking out of one classroom to the next in Mechanicsburg, Pa when the p.a. announcement was made.
   I stopped just to take it all in. Then watched on tv as Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey. I remember wondering -okay that's two takeouts in a short span........what's going on in the world as my father had relocated us from the Big Blue Nation to the north.
   
   Kenneth B. Rue
   K E N T U C K Y

   
   
   
   
7. Melvin Waldron

   

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   11/22/2013 2:11 PM

   I was like Pete, just turned 3, so I don't remember it.
   
   I do remember Robert Kennedy getting killed, hearing it on the radio on a Sunday morning.
   
   I also remember Dr. King getting shot, dad was stationed at Andrews AFB, we were living in Maryland, not far from DC housing, and dad sent us to Connecticut. I remember the projects that were across the interstate from the Shakey's Pizza place he moonlighted at were burned to the ground.
   
   While sometimes one has to wonder about more than one shooter, it seems if politicians were involved someone would have talked. I saw something this past weekend, that with the evidence it could have been just one shooter.
   
   Mel

   
   Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO
   
   
8. Sandy Clark

   

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   11/22/2013 3:11 PM

   That is probably why we will all wonder forever. The single shooter theory can be made to sound as logical as the multiple shooter and bullet theories. Some mob boss claimed to be behind it but that was never proven one way or the other. I was in college when Robert Kennedy was shot. I don't remember where I was when MLK went down. I remember each time wondering how evil like that could happen?

   
   
   
   
9. Stephen Okula

   

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   11/23/2013 4:11 PM

   I was in thr fourth grade, and I remember the JFK assasination being announced over the school intercom. The principal said the president had been shot in Texas. Living in Connecticut, my idea of Texas was what I saw on TV, so I imagined the President had been gunned down by some cowboy with a six-shooter on a dusty street between old wooden buildings, and probably at high noon.
   
   I also remember my teacher and a couple of other women teachers crying when they heard the news. New England women loved Kennedy.

   
   
   
   
10. Steven Huffstutler

    

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    11/24/2013 5:11 AM

    Terribly sad memories. I was in 5th grade we were in the school yard at lunch when it was announced, I was really too young to have much emotion about the whole thing, but I remember how excited my parents were when he was elected and now he was gone.
    The teachers, the janitor, all of the adults were sobbing and us little kids started crying too 'cause we didnt know what else to do. They called our folks and sent us home. We walked to school back then and when we got home, it was as if there were a funeral in progress. My Dad left work and came home, too and he and my Mom and my big sister spent the rest of the day glued to the radio (we didn't have a tv) and sobbing on and off.
    I remember watching the funeral at a neighbors house and asking why the horse had a pair of boots mounted facing backward in the stirrups.
    A day that changed the world.
    
    Regards,
    
    Steve

    
    
    
    
11. Ronald Kirkman

    

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    11/24/2013 10:11 PM

    Greetings;
    
    I was 25 yrs. old then - pushing 26. It was a pleasant day at Needham and we were cutting a little rough and cleaning up some leaves, getting ready for the winter. I remember two golfers came out to play a few holes and they informed me that President Kennedy had been shot. For some reason they were not concerned about him losing his life. They did think he would be ok. I did stop what I was doing and went up to the house to catch the latest news. I was absolutely stunned that our President had succumbed from his injuries.
    
    The following days were hectic and very sad. We all cried whether we liked JFK or not. Little John saluting his dad and Caroline and Mrs. Kennedy I don't know how they held their composure. All the dignataries throughout the world were at the funeral.
    
    As time went on we had the Warren Commission investigate the death of JFK and really, noone thought it was Oswald all by himself that shot the President. It was Cuba, the Mafia, CIA and others were getting the blame. However, as the years passed no real evidence showed up to prove Oswald was not alone. I saw the Texas bookhouse or floor where Oswald fired three shots at President Kennedy. One wonders how he missed the first shot, the second shot was better but not life threatning and bang the 3rd. shot was the bad one. Oswald, a former Marine knew how to shoot that rifle and I think a bit nervous for the first and second shot. If any of you have visited the book place you know how easy it was to shoot the President. I think as many do including the Secret Service that the book place was overlooked as a place to attack the President.
    
    JFK never really had a chance to make America a better place to live.We did not have the computers, internet etc. so we could not really follow JFK and all his women like Marylyn Monroe and others.
    
    President Kennedy would have gotten us out of Vietnam had he survived. The Goodness and Greatness of JFK far outweigh the not so good things he has been accussed of. There are so many things that went on back in the early sixties that it is impossible to talk about. You can find all the information in the history books.
    
    Capt. Kirk
    Retired Alien
    Needham Golf Club
    Needham,MA

    
    
    
    
12. Bruce Corkern

    

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    11/26/2013 5:11 AM

    I was 6 years old in the 1st grade in Louisiana. The principal came in and called the teacher outside to tell her and she came back into the room crying telling the class what happened. School was quickly dismissed and I remember my family being glued to the old Zenith black and white TV for the weekend.
    
    I remember seeing Oswald shot live on TV and the chaos that ensued. Also remember the New Orleans TV stations showing clips of Oswald from his arrest in New Orleans and going over the history of his life in Louisiana.
    
    Four years later Jim Garrison the DA of Orleans Parish, indicted Clay Shaw in the conspiracy and would have indicted David Ferrie had he not mysteriously died. An interesting time in Louisiana.
    
    Dealey Plaza is on the bucket list.......anyone ever gone there?
    
    Bruce Corkern
    Royal Malta Golf Club
    Malta

    
    
    
    
13. Sandy Clark

    

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    11/26/2013 9:11 AM

    I just noticed my terrible spelling on the title! Another case of my brain and fingers not working together!

    
    
    
    
14. Gary Carls

    

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    11/26/2013 10:11 AM

    Bruce,
    
    Always been curious about this period in our history even though I was 8 when it all happened. I can't imagine how dificult last week must have been for family members with all the news images constantly flashing on TV. Heard that Caroline stayed in Japan or somewhere.
    
    Been to Dealey Plaza a couple of times when the GIS was in the area. Found the 6th Floor Museum at the Book Depository Building very interesting as well as just kind of walking through the area around there. Interesting to look at all the various angles and things that I've heard over the years about various conspiracies and see how plausible they all really could be. Saw Mark Lane speak when I was in college at an event and share all his conspiracy theories. Lots of what was said seemed to make sense at the time. Even went to the Texas Theater where Oswald was arrested although at the time is was basically just boarded up and looking like it was ready to be torn down.
    
    Well worth the visit if you are in the area and like history.

    
    Gary K. Carls, CGCS, President - Oakland Turfgrass Education Initiative
    
    
15. Niemier Rick A

    
    12/9/2013 6:12 PM

    Bruce Corkern said: I was 6 years old in the 1st grade in Louisiana. The principal came in and called the teacher outside to tell her and she came back into the room crying telling the class what happened. School was quickly dismissed and I remember my family being glued to the old Zenith black and white TV for the weekend.
    
    I remember seeing Oswald shot live on TV and the chaos that ensued. Also remember the New Orleans TV stations showing clips of Oswald from his arrest in New Orleans and going over the history of his life in Louisiana.
    
    Four years later Jim Garrison the DA of Orleans Parish, indicted Clay Shaw in the conspiracy and would have indicted David Ferrie had he not mysteriously died. An interesting time in Louisiana.
    
    Dealey Plaza is on the bucket list.......anyone ever gone there?
    
    Bruce Corkern
    Royal Malta Golf Club
    Malta

    
    
    Bruce,
    
    I went to the GCSAA show when it was in Dallas. Went to Dealey Plaza and spent most of the day there. I was 6 when JFK was killed and I remember it being my first real experience with someone dieing. The Texas School Book Depository is a musuem. Walked around the grassy knoll, the fence was still there. Very spooky, quiet day. If your close I would recommend it. You see all the pictures, but to be there is something else.