[Pedantic_Lady]

Yeah...JFK was assassinated 12 years before I was born, but since I grew up in Dallas, I couldn't ever get away from it. They didn't open the 6th floor museum until I was a teenager and even when I was a kid, the assassination was kind of an off-limits topic; I think it was too painful for a lot of people. My dad was in downtown Dallas that day; he didn't see the shooting but he heard it; he won't talk about it. I knew John Brewer personally; he's the man who pointed Lee Harvey Oswald out to the Dallas police at the Texas Theater. We went on a field trip in 1987 to Dealey Plaza, then to the Dallas police station where Oswald was held and later murdered; we got to stand in the exact spot. They don't let you do that anymore.

[jjbrouwer]

It will be different tomorrow but I read somewhere that more people flock to Dallas each year to see Southfork (Miss Ellie/JR etc) than Dealey Plaza. Crazy old world.

[South40]

Yeah...JFK was assassinated 12 years before I was born

I was alive that day and I remember it quite well.

I was 6-years-old. My school was two blocks away from my home. I arrived home that day to find my mother sobbing while glued to the TV screen. I inquired as to what was wrong and she told me the president had been killed. I knew who JFK was as his picture was hanging on the wall in our living room.

My mother passed away on Sept. 30th of this year. At a gathering after her funeral my siblings and I went through boxes of her belongings. Among them were front page LA Times stories of both JFK and RFK's deaths. I have them now.

[lavrenti]

I may be the only Freeper to have met both John Kennedy, Jr. and Lee Oswald's daughter.

You know, I may be the only one.