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November 14th 03, 03:38 PM
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JFK
40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at
Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at 20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150 out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas and was dead. May he rest in peace. Big John 
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November 14th 03, 04:57 PM
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May he rest in peace.
Amen, brother. I was a five-year old lad, glued to our black & white, 3-channel TV, wondering why all the adults around me were crying... One of the scariest experiences of my childhood. As an aside, the event also marked the genesis of our current presidential "security" headaches. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination"
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November 14th 03, 05:08 PM
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40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at
Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at 20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150 out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas and was dead. May he rest in peace. Big John And the sad historical footnote is that we still don't know who really did it.
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November 14th 03, 05:13 PM
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40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at
Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at 20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150 out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas and was dead. May he rest in peace. Big John 40 years ago this week I was a young lad in England excitedly waiting for the 2nd episode of Dr. Who on the BBC. Kennedy's death and funeral changed all the schedules and delayed the broadcast for a week. One week is an awfully long time to an 8-year-old. I've harbored a simmering resentment of the Kennedy clan ever since, and now vote against them and their Democrat friends whenever I get the chance. Revenge is sweet. -- Dr. Tony Cox Citrus Controls Inc. e-mail: http://CitrusControls.com/
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November 14th 03, 05:25 PM
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I normally wouldn't have replied to this thread, but when I saw your post it
made me smile. I've never understood the reverence for JFK, his infidelity made Clinton look like a abstinent monk. The actions in a similar vein half made me dislike the clan more and more. Heck, a Kennedy can drown or even murder a woman and still get off. They are reprehensible, certainly not worthy of reverence. -- -- Good Flights! Cecil E. Chapman, Jr. PP-ASEL "We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet" - Cecil Day Lewis- Check out my personal flying adventures: www.bayareapilot.com "Tony Cox" wrote in message .net... 40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at 20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150 out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas and was dead. May he rest in peace. Big John 40 years ago this week I was a young lad in England excitedly waiting for the 2nd episode of Dr. Who on the BBC. Kennedy's death and funeral changed all the schedules and delayed the broadcast for a week. One week is an awfully long time to an 8-year-old. I've harbored a simmering resentment of the Kennedy clan ever since, and now vote against them and their Democrat friends whenever I get the chance. Revenge is sweet. -- Dr. Tony Cox Citrus Controls Inc. e-mail: http://CitrusControls.com/
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November 14th 03, 05:25 PM
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:aQ7tb.198935$Tr4.569143@attbi_s03... May he rest in peace. Amen, brother. I was a five-year old lad, glued to our black & white, 3-channel TV, wondering why all the adults around me were crying... One of the scariest experiences of my childhood. What I couldn't understand was why they kept digging him up again (they showed the funeral many times on TV, I hadn't quite gotten the concept of film/videotape down at that age).
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November 14th 03, 05:26 PM
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"Tony Cox" wrote in message .net... I've harbored a simmering resentment of the Kennedy clan ever since, and now vote against them and their Democrat friends whenever I get the chance. Revenge is sweet. Watch out or we'll send the Daleks after you.
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November 14th 03, 05:29 PM
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"Big John" wrote in message ... 40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at 20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150 out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas and was dead. May he rest in peace. Today is November 14, 2003. JFK was shot and killed on November 22, 1963.
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November 14th 03, 05:53 PM
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Today is November 14, 2003. JFK was shot and killed on November 22, 1963.
Uh-oh; you blew his cover. Big John was actually flying one of those experimental warp-drive F-89Js -- the kind with hyper-drive. He hit a worm hole, and messed up his space/time reference. For HIM it happened on the 14th. Prolly why they never continued the testing program beyond the prototype... ;-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination"
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November 14th 03, 06:00 PM
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What does infidelity have to do with his legacy? Do you disdain Franklin
Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower as well? In fact, if you run down the founding fathers John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton have all been accused of being adulterers. Who cares? "Cecil E. Chapman" wrote in message om... I normally wouldn't have replied to this thread, but when I saw your post it made me smile. I've never understood the reverence for JFK, his infidelity made Clinton look like a abstinent monk. The actions in a similar vein half made me dislike the clan more and more. Heck, a Kennedy can drown or even murder a woman and still get off. They are reprehensible, certainly not worthy of reverence. -- -- Good Flights! Cecil E. Chapman, Jr. PP-ASEL "We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet" - Cecil Day Lewis- Check out my personal flying adventures: www.bayareapilot.com "Tony Cox" wrote in message .net... 40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at 20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150 out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas and was dead. May he rest in peace. Big John 40 years ago this week I was a young lad in England excitedly waiting for the 2nd episode of Dr. Who on the BBC. Kennedy's death and funeral changed all the schedules and delayed the broadcast for a week. One week is an awfully long time to an 8-year-old. I've harbored a simmering resentment of the Kennedy clan ever since, and now vote against them and their Democrat friends whenever I get the chance. Revenge is sweet. -- Dr. Tony Cox Citrus Controls Inc. e-mail: http://CitrusControls.com/
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