45 years later, El Pasoans still remember John F. Kennedy
Arizona Coin Collector
On the story below.
You may have notice and error on the date of Kennedy
assassination. The assassination took place on a
Friday. It was on Friday, November 22, 1963. This
was a simple typo.
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FROM:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_11047181?source=rss
El Paso Times
45 years later, El Pasoans still remember John F. Kennedy
By Ramon Bracamontes / El Paso Times
Posted: 11/22/2008 12:00:00 AM MST
EL PASO - District court Judge Bill Moody keeps two
John F. Kennedy 50-cent pieces in his pocket at all
times.
He never spends them. The coins for Moody serve as
reminders of the 35th president of the United
States who was assassinated in Dallas 45 years ago
Saturday, on Nov. 22, 1963.
(News Paper Photo Image)
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"If you were alive on that day, everyone remembers
exactly what they were doing when they heard the
president had been shot," said Moody, who was a
13-years-old student in class on that historic day.
"This was a man who people were willing to follow."
The killing of President Kennedy touched the lives
of almost every U.S. citizen back in 1963 because
he was young, he was energetic, and he campaigned
on a platform of change.
In El Paso, his death was a bit more personal
because Kennedy had visited the city three times
before, and he had been spent the night here six
months before he was shot.
In a book that Moody, a historian, is working on,
he writes about the death of the charismatic
president known simply as JFK.
"The loss in El Paso seemed greater because of
his recent visit to our area. A mere 169
days ... less than six months had passed since
the community had seen his tanned face, his
boyish grin, heard his elegant words and some
had even touched him," Moody writes.
Among those who saw and heard Kennedy in El
Paso was Ted Bender, a young city
representative and television weatherman.
Bender, now 83, still remembers all of Kennedy's
June 5, 1963, visit to El Paso.
"I personally knew the man," Bender said from
his home in West El Paso. "It's a chapter in
my life that you can't forget - no one can.
He was widely liked, especially in this area
because he had just been here before he
was shot."
Historical annals document that Kennedy's
fatal Texas trip was planned in El Paso at
the Hotel Cortez, where he spent the night
on June 5, 1963. Kennedy's trip to Dallas
was supposed to be the start of a Texas
fundraising trip.
After Dallas, Kennedy was supposed to go to
Austin for a dinner at the Austin Convention
Center with Texas Democratic Party leaders.
El Paso lawyer Wayne Windle was one of those
en route from El Paso to Austin to meet
Kennedy that evening. Windle, 71, remembers
taking a private airplane to Austin and being
told upon arrival that the president had
been shot.
Windle still has his unused dinner ticket.
"The airport guy told us Kennedy had been
shot, and I told him, 'Don't say that,' "
Windle said. "I kept telling him, 'Don't
say that, it's not appropriate.' He kept
telling us it was true, and I kept arguing
with him.
"What was really happening is that my brain
just wouldn't accept it."
To this day, Windle doesn't remember whether
he spent the night in Austin or came back
to El Paso.
"The only thing I remember is seeing Walter
Cronkite cry on national TV when he told us
the president had died," Windle said. "After
that, I don't remember much."
Ramon Bracamontes may be reached at
rbraca...@elpasotimes.com; 546-6142.
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mazorj
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> Hello
>
> On the story below.
>
> You may have notice and error on the date of Kennedy
> assassination. The assassination took place on a
> Friday. It was on Friday, November 22, 1963. This
> was a simple typo.
No, a typo (typographical error) is an error in typing, like Froday
for Friday or a transposition like "teh" for "the". Dating the event
on a Saturday instead of Friday was a factual error, like "printing"
instead of "minting" coins in your previous story.
The writer probably is a youngster. Anyone who was over the age of 10
in 1963 remembers what they were doing when they heard the news. I
was in school, so I know it couldn't have been on a Saturday.
Bill Krummel
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> "Arizona Coin Collector" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> Hello
>>
>> On the story below.
>>
>> You may have notice and error on the date of Kennedy
>> assassination. The assassination took place on a
>> Friday. It was on Friday, November 22, 1963. This
>> was a simple typo.
>
> No, a typo (typographical error) is an error in typing, like Froday for
> Friday or a transposition like "teh" for "the". Dating the event on a
> Saturday instead of Friday was a factual error, like "printing" instead of
> "minting" coins in your previous story.
>
> The writer probably is a youngster. Anyone who was over the age of 10 in
> 1963 remembers what they were doing when they heard the news. I was in
> school, so I know it couldn't have been on a Saturday.
The writer is trying to say that on Saturday, Nov. 22nd, 2008 it will be 45
years ago that the assasination happened in Dallas, noting the anniversary
of the date, not the day of week.
Bill
mazorj
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stonej
as parent-teacher conferences were being held
that day, sometime in the early afternoon my friend and I went to his
house after playing outside and his mother told
us that JFK had been shot in Dallas, I went home and my mother had
the TV on and there was Walter Cronkite
talking about what had happened.
The next few days were sort of a blur as the world as I knew it just
seemed to stop in place. I was at my grandfathers
farm as we usually went there once a week and remember seeing Oswald
being transferred from one jail to another
and then him getting shot on live TV, my grandfather saying "holy cow
someone just shot Oswald".
JFK's funeral happened and I remember seeing that as well on TV, I
believe most of the country basically shut down for
the funeral, the memory is a bit hazy but I know I didn't have school
that day. The whole thing as it unfolded still seems
surreal after all these years.
note.boy
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