Where were you the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated? Many of you were not yet born or so young you have no memory of that day or the days that followed. For those of us up to and including the baby boomers born up to 1953 remember exactly where we were when we heard the news. Horrifically for those of us who lived in Dallas Texas have lived that day over and over so many times we are seldom away from the memories especially in November of each year.
I was 15 years old and in the ninth grade at Greiner Jr. High School in Oak Cliff Texas. I was in gym at the time. For those of you who did not go to school back then we wore ugly one piece white cotton iron and starched gym suits, as ugly as they sound. If I can find one in one of my old class books from those years I will scan a picture and put it up later today.
One of my friend’s mother had found out she had some time off and a few of us were asked to call our parents and get permission and we would be able to get dressed and hurry up to drive to where the President was to have lunch and see him before he left Dallas. I rushed to the pay phone to call my mom. She answered and I excitedly told her what I was going to get to do and beg her; “mom, please let me go we have time to get there and I ssssssssoooooooooooo want to see the president, but I need your permission to leave school”. The excitement in my voice as well as the urgency to get her permission so I could be on my way was evident in my voice.
My mom was somber and I thought I heard sadness in her voice when she told me I couldn’t go. I interrupted her and began to beg…. she stopped me and said “hon., the president is dead, he was murdered at the triple underpass in downtown Dallas. Do you want to come home”?
I only remember hanging up the phone and ran back into the gym and ran up to our teacher and broke down in sobs, sobbing over and over again that the president was dead, and there stood the whole class. The teacher got on to me and scolded me saying that was not true and where had I heard something so horrible. I sobbed all the louder and was able to final get out that I had called my mom and she told me. The class was in disarray, the teacher and the students were not sure they believed me and many were getting ready to leave to go see him.
I don’t know how long it was every, minute was like an hour, but finally the principal came on the intercom and told us that President John F. Kennedy had been killed in Dallas that day and school was being dismissed early.
I went home and watched our black and white TV, hanging onto my mom for the next days, day after day as we watched a thirty-four year old woman…the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy… hold a nation together. I will always remember watching live as she arrived at Andrews with the casket and Robert Kennedy jumped up to be with her and the casket as they lowered it and put it in the hearse. I remember I was watching TV early in the wee hours of the morning in the darkness as my mom and I cried together when we saw this young woman follow her husband’s casket into the white house still wearing the blood soaked dress and hose.
My mom’s birthday was November 24th, we didn’t celebrate it that year.
I have never been to Neely Plaza again without thinking of that day. I need no TV specials today. I know where I was the day the president was murdered. Where were you?
I have written this with tears blurring my vision so if there are misspelled words forgive me, Ken will edit it later today… “Can you tell me where my good friend John has gone”….. a beautiful song I have also loved and shared tears every time I have ever heard it.
FOOTNOTEI have never believed in the magic bullet theory. I grew up in a house of hunters, and my dad and brother always said, even with a small caliber rifle if the president had been shot in the back of the head, the exit wound is the one that would have bigger and that is the reason they and I always believed in the multiple shooters. It is the right back of his head that is gone, the front in all of those pictures was always in tact. Why did the first lady crawl of on the back of the car to recover part of the head and brains of her husband? I found GREAT comfort in what Secretary of state John Kerry recently said, if he does not believe in the magic bullet theory, that gives me comfort and gives me peace of mind for the duration of my life. I will never know the truth but perhaps my husband and son will one day.
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On either CNN or AJA I saw an interview with a man, assumed a previous boulder detective. In that interview he said that a new grand jury should be convened and that Burke Ramsey should be made to testify about what he knew about what happened in the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996 with his parents. Have any of you seen that interview and if so do you remember who it was, it was a dark haired man, and what channel it was on?
After that and the statement issued by L. Lin Wood I found this in a news source this morning:
“Among the witnesses who had gone before the Grand Jury were the Ramseys’ housekeeper, the best friend with whom they’d spent Christmas, and her brother Burke. There had been handwriting and DNA testimony. (John and Patsy Ramsey were never called to testify.) But in the end, Hunter had decided it wasn’t enough to prosecute JonBenet’s parents for her death.”
Which brings up the question what could Burke Ramsey remember now 16 years later?
When we asked attorney L. Lin Wood about this he had heard of the interview I referred to but had not seen it. He sent us the same statement that he has issued throughout the weekend.
“The documents released today validate John Ramsey’s position that the Boulder District Attorney should release the entire grand jury record and not just 4 pages from an 18-month investigation that produced volumes of testimony and exhibits. The grand jury’s true bills on Counts 4(a) and 7 are nonsensical. They reveal nothing about the evidence reviewed by the grand jury and are clearly the result of a confused and compromised process. The Ramsey Family and the public are entitled to the benefit of the full and complete record, not just a historical footnote. Fairness dictates that result.”
“It is also extremely important to keep in mind that the released documents from 1999 were the product of a grand jury that did not have the benefit of the conclusive 2008 DNA testing that led to the unequivocal, public exoneration of the Ramsey Family by the Boulder District Attorney. That DNA evidence also established that in 1999, the Boulder District Attorney rightfully refused to pursue criminal charges against John or Patsy, despite the Grand Jury true bills.”
Do you think Mr. Wood has a strong argument that this indictment in 1999 basically means nothing after the DNA tests in 2008? Do you think this case will ever be solved? What do you feel and think that once again John Ramsey has been thrown into the public arena?
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If I did an article today on last week’s trial coverage I would be hammering home about an older male white attorney, Dan West, picking on a younger multicultural African-American young woman, Rachel Jeantel. If I got she didn’t want any part of this and she at 19 lives in a multicultural community in Miami one has to wonder if Geroge Zimmerman’s attorney didn’t turn off every one of the mothers on the jury. Surely we have got past the cookie cutter philosophy of if “she is not like me then she doesn’t belong”, or perhaps we haven’t. And what was the celebratory ice cream with his two white daughters of “I got her good” posted on intragram and twitter all about???? This is a young girl who lied and said she was 16 instead of 18 so the news could not hound her every movement in the last year….. GOOD for her for being that smart. She didn’t want to see the dead body of a boy, Trayvon Martin, she was talking to on the phone right before he died, not surprising. She wanted no part of this, but she came forward, RELUCTANTLY, and held her own with an uppity white male older attorney, insulting her at every turn, GREAT for her!!! He never shook her from the core basics no matter how insulting Dan West became in his 4+ hours of trying to break her. She speaks three languages, Creole, Spanish and English, hello that should have been a “great for you”, that is impressive at 19, instead of embarrassing her with “can you read cursive by putting a letter in front of her”.
You see that is all I concentrated on this week, and the more I thought of it the madder I got, this white guy, Dan West, treated her like dog poop on his shoes where the white guy, John Guy, was treated with the statement of “I bet you wish you were not here”. Hell why not that same courtesy by the defense attorney, Dan West, to the young African-American girl, bad manners or racism? What do you think?
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We will be covering the George Zimmerman 2nd Degree Murder Trial of Trayvon Martin from start to finish beginning here on June 10, 2013.
We will we watching daily with a twitter fee as we have always do when covering trials.
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“Based on the foregoing considerations, the motion to dismiss and for partial summary judgment filed by the defendants (doc. 16) is due to be GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. The motion to dismiss and for partial summary judgment is due to be DENIED as to the plaintiff’s claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress. The motion to dismiss is due to be GRANTED as to plaintiff’s invasion-of-privacy claim, and that claim is due to be DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
So how did Lin Wood and Beth Holloway win? In this quote: “Based on the foregoing considerations, the motion to dismiss and for partial summary judgment filed by the defendants (doc. 16) is due to be GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. The motion to dismiss and for partial summary judgment is due to be DENIED as to the plaintiff’s claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
I am still reading through the court’s 33 page opinion but wanted to get this up for all of you that have been following the tragedy of Natalie Holloway and now her mother’s lawsuit against the National Enquirer.
I have also downloaded ALL of the Motions that led to the Court’s decision today, or those with exhibits not filed under seal. Ken and I will be working tonight to get ALL of the up for you to read.
One of our favorite attorneys and his law firm has struck another win on behalf of the small guy, or as Dan Rather put it the “voice for the damned”.
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Socialite and famed Libel Defamation attorney L. Lin Wood and Melanie Osgood announced their engagement over the weekend at the Ritz Carlton at Reynolds Plantation where Wood had proposed to his bride to be earlier.
We had scooped this before this weekend but had been asked to hold off on announcing this, something we are always willing to do when requested.
Looking at this picture it was well worth the wait and being big fans of Lin Wood in courtrooms and lawsuits, we here at Rose Speaks, especially Ken and Rose, wish Lin and the lovely Melanie only happiness. Many have said, including us, that Lin Wood radiates with happiness in this picture as does Ms. Osgood.
Melanie works full time as an underwriter for Chubb, after graduating from University of Georgia – Terry College of Business and studied abroad at Oxford University in England before moving to Atlanta. She is the daughter of Kendall and LuAnn Osgood of Snellville, Georgia.
…and the rest is the stuff of story book tales with a story book ending, the kind we all love to see happen to good people!
We intend to stay on top of this as wedding plans are announced!
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Final Opinion on 2nd Appellate Court of California vs. Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Howard K. Stern. I have not read it yet so will give my opinion after I read it and after I ask for on record statements.
For reference sake this article we had in October 2012 states most of the same things. That article was titled; Howard K Stern and Dr. Khristine Erosovich has Major loss as California Appeals Court Reverses and Remands back to Judge Robert Perry”. This latest opinion has added two more pages but so far as I read it is just the same as last year.
After I read through this I will be back with more to say! So stay tuned to Rose Speaks.com tonight as we unravel what this opinion actually means and share what you think it means after you read it!!!!!
Am I the only one who thinks California should just let this go and not keep spending tax payers money of a selected case to prosecute?
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