How many shots did you or your family hear?
Did you all stand in disbelief or run for it?
You were asking — “How many shots did you or your family hear?”
Well, although I’m “hearing” — my folks were deaf (they’re gone now...). I really didn’t know what was going on, and, of course, my folks didn’t either, as they aren’t “hearing”...
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And then you asked — “Did you all stand in disbelief or run for it?”
It sounds so “ordinary” but we didn’t know what was going on... My folks, of course, wouldn’t have known, and as for me, it was out of my range of experience, being a young kid and not really understanding these things (at the time).
Things didn’t really come together (as to what happened) until a bit later when the news came out that the President was dead. Now, that was a momentous item, more so than actually being there. I also had to deliver a paper route that afternoon and so got hammered by people wanting to grab a paper from me (even buying it) but I couldn’t because I only had enough to deliver — and of course, that was the huge and big headline...
My folks were shocked about the events, as they found out later what had actually happened. It was beyond understanding, to have someone shoot the President...
So, sorry, no film, no pictures and didn’t know what the heck was going on...
But, I’ve been back many times since then and had stood over in all areas around the place, on the overpass where the railroad tracks are (on top), over by where a shadowy figure was seen behind a picket fence, and also to the area where a deaf person saw a person putting away what appeared to be a gun, over on the railroad tracks, and over by the grassy knoll and all around.
I actually think there was someone behind that picket fence, as that opens up into a railroad parking lot and where a bunch of railroad tracks are and where a railroad tower/building is, too. And then someone possibly above the overpass, again where the railroad tracks are, and seen by a deaf person who reported it, at the time.
Where else someone might be, I would have no idea. I do think it was several shooters, possibly two or three and not Oswald.