The Kennedy Assassination 50 years ago (Continued). Earlier I had posted about events of that day as I remember them. How I had left my transister radio home because I felt the only possible news that could come out of the presidents trip to Dallas would be if he was shot. How I had heard the first reports from kids flippantly telling a friend of theirs about what happened while I stood in a line to get a hot dog and coke and how weird I thaught that others would think about a presidential assassination on the same day. How I had not believed it until I tried to sneak into the school library and was stopped in my tracks by a teacher telling other students that the radio said it was true but they were waiting for conformation from the district offices. NOW TO CONTINUE. After hearing the teacher say that once they had formal notification of the Assassination that the school flagg would be lowered to half-staff I ran back to the mall area between the class rooms and the cafateria and told a friend and others what I had heard. The a solume mer-mur came over the area as almost three hundred students gathered to so if the flag would be lowered. I heard some lament that only the good leaders die young not people like Castro. As we stood there the wind began to blow hard and soon the flagg was flapping so hard in the wind it drowned out most of the conversations as we waited. At 11:55 AM we saw two figures in suits come out of the Administration building and walk with a man in a janitors jumpsuit to the Flagpole. As they did a silence like I have never heard before or since fell over the area. Not a word was spoken as the Flagg was first completely lowered then slowly raised to half-staff. For a few minutes everyone stood silently not really knowing what to do or say. Finally women began sobbing here-and-there. At 12 noon the bell rang for us to return to class and slowly as if in a dream we went to our classrooms. Once I arrived at my classroom the teacher who was as upset as we were said we would carry on as best we could, but barely had he said that when a memo arrived from the office at first saying we would do what he said, but a short time later another arrived said everybody go home and we did. As I was running home I came upon two guys laughing and joking with each other and thinking they might not have heard about the assassination I stopped and started to yell at them Havent you heard? The president has been shot and killed! but before I could say anything, one guy slapped the other on his back and announced One thing for sure the N-Word will no longer has a friend in the white house! which left me standing there speachless. After a few seconds I shook my head in disbeleaf and left the idiots wallowing in their bigotry and stupidity and went home.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:26:20 +0000
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