Moving Forward

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1. Tom Foster

   November 23, 2023 at 10:58 AM

   Thanks for the opportunity to reply about the Kennedy assassination… I was a recent J-School graduate from UT, and ‘on the desk’ at the Caller Times in Corpus Christi, and I heard the news as I left for work. As everyone now knows, things happened fast-and-furious that afternoon. We still had AP wire service and hand-set type; even photo transmissions were of poor quality and reliability. ‘New lead, hold P Eye’ , our acronym for page one (lower case I)! We finally ‘put the paper to bed’ about 2am, and I finally got home to my new wife, also a J-School grad but now teaching Seventh Grade English … We came ‘home’ to San Antonio the day as I had Monday off and, we watched Oswald get shot with my mom and dad. I made a point to try to get copies of all the major newspapers for their coverage of the events, and I still have that stack of old newspapers. I’d like to see them part of someone else’s archive before they all turn to dust… Tom Foster

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   • Alejandro De La Garza

     November 23, 2023 at 9:07 PM

     Thanks for your input, Tom. I always like to hear stories from people who remember those events vividly. Those old newspapers would definitely be collector’s items now! The Sixth Floor Museum might be interested in them.

     https://www.jfk.org/

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