Middle son and daughter trust dad (who in turn relies on a
sacrificial pedestrian up-street) to warn them if traffic is coming.
I am about two weeks younger than John Jr. [was], so I don't have any direct recollections of the assassination, and we had not yet moved to north Texas. However, as a child I remember reading the Life Book Four Days cover to cover several times, so that most of the images were etched in my mind years before I ever set foot in Dealey Plaza.
(Another photograph, from an alternate angle, may or may not have been taken from the left side of the frame...)
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When I little I watched a documentary on the JFK assasination. They mentioned the truism,"Everyone alive at that time remembers exactly what they were doing when they heard the news".
I asked mom and she typically said,"Good grief- how could I remember that?" Then her eyes got wide and she said,"I was cleaning house. I was dusting off the top of the refrigerator and the news broke in on the radio which was on the fridge. I just stopped and couldn't believe what I was hearing..."
I think my mother was watching "As the World Turns".
We were in the museum store the other day, and they have a flat screen collage running a loop of that weekend's events - couldn't help chuckling when I thought of the photoshopped Ruby/Oswald photo, making them look like the Blues Brothers in some nightclub (probably one of Jack Ruby's...).
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