[AGL] ... for the record.

[Michael Eisenstadt]

On 11/22/2013 10:17 AM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:

> I was coming out of Mr. Prices English class at Austin High. Susan 

> Todd (now Kramer) had heard the news on the radio at A-lunch; she told 

> me. School was closed within an hour - everyone had been planning to 

> walk the few blocks to Congress Ave. for the parade. I picked up my 

> little brother at his first grade across the street and went home. 

> Poor little six year old Sam, he could not figure out why his mother 

> and sister were weeping in front of the tv-he tried clowning around to 

> cheer us up. Didn't work.

> I was having a burger with Susi Shurley (Gilbert) at Dirtys when we 

> heard the news about Oswald.

> Fontaine

I was outside the tower when a student in one of my classes
came rushing out. She said to me "The president is short."
She musta thought I was crazy as I kept saying the president
is short? until I understood.

I then took a walk around downtown 1963 Austin thinking
"Hey, they shot my president."

Mike


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