:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 11.22.2004 ::
:: "Veteran reporter recalls JFK assassination" ::
from The Paris News, TX
By Charles Richards
At 12:30 p.m. on this day 41 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was riding through downtown Dallas in a motorcade when the shots rang out that took his life.
Like Sept. 11, 2001, would later become, Nov. 22, 1963, became a day that all of us old enough would forever remember where we were and what we were doing at the moment we heard that the president had been shot as he and the First Lady sat in an open air-vehicle beside Texas Gov. John Connally and his wife.
I was a 22-year-old senior at Texas Tech, picking up some laundry at the cleaners, when a bulletin news report came over the radio in the store.
Minutes later, I ran into the Journalism Building, where other members of the staff of the Toreador, as the student newspaper was known at the time, were gathered around a teletype machine to see the news of the assassination as it clicked off at 66 words per minute.
Read more here.
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