WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2023
REMEMBERING CAMELOT!
Sorry friends. I've got to be serious
today.If you were alive in 1963 and older
than 10 you probably remember just
where you were and what you were doing
on this day that November.
Thanksgiving was just a few days away.
Then came the news flash..
President Kennedy had been shot while
riding in a motorcade in Dallas Texas!
I was working as a DJ/Newsman at
WNAK in Nanticoke and was on my way
home when I heard the first report that
shots had been fired at the Presidential
motorcade.
I turned around and headed back to the
station as fast as possible.
We had no network, just an Associated
Press teletype machine set up in a closet.
I found an extra long microphone
cable and ran it into the closet where I read
every word as it was printed in front of me.
That included the official announcement
that President Kennedy was dead.
Much of the world as we knew it
changed on that day.
A lot of us, around the so-called "Baby
Boomer Generation", saw our image of
"Camelot" come crashing down on November
22nd and in the immediate days and weeks
that followed. Many of the images will be
with us forever!
We saw the alleged assassin shot down
on live TV as he was being escorted through
a Police Station.
We saw a beautiful first lady standing
by her late husband's successor as he was
sworn into office. The blood stains were
still on her dress.
And we saw a young boy, too little
to have any real understanding of what had
happened, stand at attention and salute as
the flag draped casket of his father came
by in the funeral procession.
The country was not without its
problems in 1963.
But we had a lot of hope for the
future! Many of us really believed we
were living in a sort of "Camelot"
and that right would prevail!
A lot of that hope was dashed on
November 22nd., 1963.
A lot of younger people today
don't know much about that "Camelot"
And that's too bad!
I hope you're sharing your memories
of that time with those that didn't live through
it........and that all your NEWS is good.
station as fast as possible.
We had no network, just an Associated
Press teletype machine set up in a closet.
I found an extra long microphone
cable and ran it into the closet where I read
every word as it was printed in front of me.
That included the official announcement
that President Kennedy was dead.
Much of the world as we knew it
changed on that day.
A lot of us, around the so-called "Baby
Boomer Generation", saw our image of
"Camelot" come crashing down on November
22nd and in the immediate days and weeks
that followed. Many of the images will be
with us forever!
We saw the alleged assassin shot down
on live TV as he was being escorted through
a Police Station.
We saw a beautiful first lady standing
by her late husband's successor as he was
sworn into office. The blood stains were
still on her dress.
And we saw a young boy, too little
to have any real understanding of what had
happened, stand at attention and salute as
the flag draped casket of his father came
by in the funeral procession.
The country was not without its
problems in 1963.
But we had a lot of hope for the
future! Many of us really believed we
were living in a sort of "Camelot"
and that right would prevail!
A lot of that hope was dashed on
November 22nd., 1963.
A lot of younger people today
don't know much about that "Camelot"
And that's too bad!
I hope you're sharing your memories
of that time with those that didn't live through
it........and that all your NEWS is good.
