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Originally posted by Oldmoparguy1:
For those of you old enough, do you remember where you were, what you were doing when John Kennedy was assassinated?
I was a little short of being six, home for the day and playing on the kitchen floor with a metal fire truck.
My father called from his car parked on the shoulder of Stemmons Freeway to watch the Presidential motorcade go by en route from downtown to the Market Center.
He was using a MOTOROLA IMTS radiotelephone that he recently had installed (and kept, with updates, for twenty years)
http://www.privateline.com/PCS/mobilephonepictures.htm
In his call he told my mother to switch on the radio to KRLD AM-1080 as the motorcade had flown past him (he was parked in the vicinity where it would have reached peak speed of around 90 mph).
My mother's shock was palpable -- and the reason I remember it -- as the first reports were coming over the air.
The "whoo-whoo" part: my old man's biggest client was Halliburton (they'd just bought out Brown & Root in 1962, completing the transaction 11/63), when he was with Glenn Advertising and later with his own firm.
From:http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040216fa_fact
BROWN & ROOT
"Founded in Texas, in 1919, by two brothers, George and Herman Brown, and their brother-in-law, Dan Root, the firm grew from supervising small road-paving projects to building enormously complex oil platforms, dams, and Navy warships. The company’s engineering feats were nearly matched by its talent for political patronage. As Robert A. Caro noted in his biography of Lyndon Johnson, Brown & Root had a symbiotic relationship with L.B.J.: the company served as a munificent sponsor of his political campaigns, and in return was rewarded with big government contracts. In 1962, Brown & Root sold out to Halliburton, a booming oil-well construction-and-services firm, and in the following years the conglomerate grew spectacularly. According to Dan Briody, who has written a book on the subject, Brown & Root was part of a consortium of four companies that built about eighty-five per cent of the infrastructure needed by the Army during the Vietnam War."
And the secretary ol' Pop's hired a few years later after he went into business for himself claimed in her book to have been LBJ's lover since 1948 (a shame she wasn't truthful about even the mundanities known to us; the rest, well . . . .)
Madeleine Brown
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbrownM.htm
And we could make more of yet other (drum roll, please) "coincidences".
Just who was that man parked in a convertible on the motorcade route speaking into a telephone moments after the motorcade passed, hmmmm?Just another "Warren Omission"?
