My thoughts and rememberances of JFK

[PrisonerNumber6]

Originally posted July 4th.

I don't to sya anything by this post, except happy Fourth of July.

[joefna]

http://youtu.be/VSakrYOpJ5s

[Autumn Gust]

I was five when JFK was assasinated and living in Norfolk, Virginia, where my dad was stationed in the Navy. I remember it was an overcast day. My dad was outside working on the car and my mom and I were in the house. Our neighbor, a middle-aged woman, came running across the yard and started knocking frantically on our door. My dad wasn't far behind her because he knew by her actions something was terribly wrong. Our neighbor came in. She told us what happened and then sobbed, "I'm from Texas, but we're not like that there!"

[RichardX]

The 6th floor museum in Dallas has a number of upcoming events next year in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the assassination which include programs with various witnesses. Most interesting is Buell Wesley Frazier who gave Oswald a ride to work on the morning of the assassination. Frazier is one of those star-crossed characters who blundered into history and unintentionally set into the motion the events that resulted in JFKs assassination. He was living with his sister while working at the Texas School Book Depository. Ruth Paine who lived down the street and was housing Oswald's wife Marina at the time mentioned to Frazier's sister that Oswald was looking for work and was told that the TSBD was hiring. Paine called the TSBD manager to confirm. Oswald gets the job and the rest is history. Like everything in the case Frazier has been a source of controversy since he confirmed that Oswald carried a long package to work that morning. Conspriracy theorists point out, however, that Frazier's estimate of the size of the package was shorter than the rifle.


2013 Living History Series
Buell Wesley Frazier
July 13, 2013 – 2:00 PM

An employee of the Texas School Book Depository, Frazier occassionally drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work, including the day of November 22, 1963. Frazier witnessed the assassination and was questioned extensively by Dallas investigators. Included with Museum admission or $10 for program only.