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Community remembers JFK shooting
Community remembers JFK shooting

Vickie Boone was only 3 1/2 years old when U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository while the president was traveling in an open car through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.Kennedy later died that day in Parkland Hospital in Dallas. This Friday commemorates the 61st anniversary of the tragedy.Boone doesn’t remember about that fateful day on Friday, November 22, 1963.What she doesn’t recollect, she can credit her grandmother for keeping the historical knowledge alive.Her late grandmother, Irene Martin, a long-time Lamesa resident, saved copies of the Midland ...

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