Friday, 22-November-1963 - Bay City – It was shortly after 13:30 PM in 5th-hour biology class with Mr McKinney.
I
was a 13-year-old freshman (photo) at T.L.
Handy High
School in Bay City,
Michigan.
I was an A-student, the oldest of six
children.
I was a county boy and enjoyed
farm work.
We had unexpectedly lost our healthy
mother two years earlier, two weeks after routine surgery.
This made me grow up in a hurry.
I was working hard to become the starting catcher on my baseball team;
and at school, I was on my way to becoming an engineer.
My future was bright, despite threat of
nuclear war.
We had a president who
successfully stood up to Soviet aggressors. Our school principal Mr Noell came
on the public address system with an announcement:
"President Kennedy has just been shot in Dallas."
We were all in shock.
Mr Mckinney dropped his jaw and held his
cheek with one hand, immobilized.
We
then listened in disbelief and denial to the
live radio broadcast.
He was buried three
days later, on my birthday.
Note: I wrote this after reading in the newspaper this morning that the
Brabants Dagblad is looking for readers who will share their memories.
1 comment:
Hi Couson Dale, I wrote on my FB page where I was -in art class
and my teacher asked us to draw a famopus person. One classmate drew Pres. Kenneny . We alwayus put the best picture on the bullentin board for a week. When we found out the class wanted and did put a black sheet of constructio paper behind his picture. and kept it up a few extra weeks.
In my home town paper they asked people to write in where they were and I did this information. And to my surprise they printed it in the Sunday paper on Nov. 10th.
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