On this day when I was in fifth grade, my neighbor signed my sister and me and his own two daughters out of elementary school and took us some blocks away to see President John F. Kennedy ride by in his motorcade. We stood on the front steps of the First Baptist Church and looked down into his limousine where he sat on the back, waving at the throngs on each side of him. I remember thinking that this is what a president should be. Just a few days later, in a similar motorcade, and with his wife this time, he was assassinated. I think Tampas citizens experienced an even deeper shock because wed just seen him in all of his vibrancy a few days earlier. Up close and personal. His Tampa motorcade was among the longest in history. And, he made speeches that day in several spots in Tampa. Just before arriving in Tampa, hed visited the Cape Canaveral Air Base and made the announcement that wed go to the moon before the decade was out. An achievement he did not live to see. He only lived four more days. On another page, someone wrote about the Warren Report. How I wish, in all of these decades, that the media and its rehash of the events in Dallas, or even in all of the documentaries that have been produced, had given us more of the details of this official report. She wrote: My mom bought The Warren Commission Report and it sat in our family room, untouched, for about 50 years. So I started reading it a few months ago...There were things in there that I had never heard: - Multiple people - including a reporter in one of the press cars - saw a rifle sticking out of the 6th floor window of the School Book Depository. One young man actually saw Oswald firing the weapon. - Three men in a window on the 5th floor heard the shots being fired and the shell casings dropping to the floor above them, One of the men had plaster fall into his hair because the shots were so loud they knocked loose parts of the building. - One man witnessed Oswald shoot officer Tippet and about five other people saw him leaving the scene, emptying his revolver. - Three police officers ran up onto the grassy knoll and behind the fence within seconds of the shooting and they found...nothing...no one. - The man who gave Oswald a ride to work said he was carrying a long paper sack, which he claimed were curtain rods. That same sack was found on the 6th floor...with Oswalds finger prints on it. Parts of the rifle, which couldnt be wiped down, had his fingerprints. The gun was shipped to a P.O. Box rented under an assumed name which was traced back to Oswald... - Was he working for the CIA? I dont think the CIA would hire someone as incompetent as Oswald. - I think the Secret Service agent who jumped on Mrs. Kennedy saved her life - mainly because there was one more bullet left in the chamber. Theres more...but thats enough for now.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 20:58:06 +0000
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