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MemoryshareYou are in: Oxford > Memoryshare > Where Were You When...  JFK moments before his death Where Were You When...By Joel Hammer There are many moments in the 20th century that people ask "Where were you when..?" The assassination of JFK is probably the most asked. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. But what was it about JFK? Why do people still ask, "Where were you when...?" ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Oxford looks back at the events and asks what relevance the story of JFK has today. Thomas Tate grew up in the States and now lives in Oxford and tells us what he remembers from the day.Ìý We also have audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives based in Los Angeles - the oldest public radio collection in the United States. Find out more by listening below and by clicking on the link on the right.Ìý Many thanks too to Joanne Griffith.
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Your Memories:Pauline - Oxford On 22nd November 1963 I was ten hours ahead of the UK and even more ahead of Dallas.Ìý My husband was stationed in north Malaya and I was up and about getting ready for my part-time job as secretary at the British Army Children’s School when I heard the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ world news about Kennedy’s assassination.Ìý When I called to my husband about what had happened he found it hard to believe and had to hear it for himself.Ìý When I got to the school I asked the Head what he thought of the news and he hadn’t heard the news that morning and was stunned.Ìý He thought I must have misheard and went off to check what I had told him.Ìý Everyone found it difficult to believe that this had happened.Ìý Kennedy seemed to be what the USA needed at the time. He had a good group of advisors etc around him, all more or less of an age.Ìý He was the only one who stood up to the Russians (the Cuba missile crisis) although he must have been chewing his nails at the time in case he got it wrong. One always wonders ‘what might have been’.Ìý Lee Harvey Oswald’s death seemed very convenient at the time and still does.Ìý Why a low-life like Ruby should take it upon himself to shoot Oswald and die in the process is really unbelievable, even if he was dying of cancer as the reports said at the time.Ìý Someone must have been frightened of what Oswald might or might not say as there was a Texan faction that didn’t like Kennedy’s government and I’m sure that Ruby didn’t die in vain, no doubt his family received quite a nice death benefit payment. Gordon Clark - Chandler, Arizona FROM 1965 THROUGH 1968 I LIVED UP ON MORRELL AVE AND FELL IN LOVE WITH OXFORD.Ìý BEEN BACK MANY TIMES AND WILL BE BACK SOON.Ìý LIVING IN CHANDLER, ARIZONA SE OF PHOENIX.Ìý LISTEN TO YOU ALL AS OFTEN AS I CAN WHILE HERE WORKING ON THE CPU.Ìý KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.Ìý MY WIFE JOAN JUST GOT OF THE HOSPITAL THIS AFTERNOON (MONDAY) AFTER A SERIOUS OPERATION AND ALL WENT WELL.Ìý GLAD TO HAVE HER HOME.Ìý last updated: 05/02/2008 at 13:16 Have Your SayWhere were you when..?
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