Re: [IRCA] Where were you on 22 November 1963?

["Chris Black" <n1cp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was in my early twenties living in Paris and doing a variety of things to 
keep from starving to death, one of which was to drive and also perform in 
(as juggler) small entertainment units that worked in the various Officers 
and NCO clubs on the military bases in France (that was before De Gaulle 
threw us out).

A bunch of us had bundled into an old Citroen for an NCO club in Verdun, 
France, about 2-3 hours from Paris, as I recall. It was early evening there 
and I was warming up my act and we were getting ready to do our little 
schtick, when they announced that the club was closing and the base was 
going on alert due to the shooting of the President.

So we had to beat feet back to our hotel in Paris and hope that our 
landlady, expecting us to be gone for a couple of days, had not sub-rented 
our rooms, which was not that an uncommon a practice. Fortunately, we didn't 
have to sleep in the lobby.

Chris Black
Cape Cod



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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Where were you on 22 November 1963?


> Fourth grade recess, athletic field, Providence, RI. Sunny, warm, breezy.
> Abruptly called to classroom. Teacher Fran Bachman states Mr. Crosby 
> enroute to
> address us.
>
> Aura of terror permeates room. Crosby was new Asst. Headmaster. He 
> recently
> 'addressed' Grades 1 - 6 in Alumni Hall. We anticipated folksy avuncular 
> 'let's
> get acquainted' chat. Crosby had other thoughts. All blindsided as he 
> laces
> into us. Our table manners? 'Atrocious!'  Classroom comportment? 
> 'Savages!'
> Academic prowess? 'Morons, idiots, yes even imbeciles do better than you 
> pigs!"
>
> Crosby Final Solution? 'Buckle down! Get to work! Or find another school -
> one for fools!'
>
>
> Today? Crosby arrested, we're 'traumatized for life', parents sue,
> therapists descend..
>
> Then? Different. Crosby meant business and we knew it. Get to work - or 
> die.
>
> Crosby enters amidst cold trepidation. States, 'JFK shot, we'd like you to 
> go
> home'. Blindsided again, albeit gently.
>
>  Subsequent to Crosby's ravening eminence noire, even assassinations - of
> which there would be more - proved anticlimactic. Good psychology on his 
> part
> both for short run and remainder of our lives.
>
>
> Paul V. Zecchino, T.D.
>
> PS - Isn't it interesting to note paucity of media coverage of this
> anniversary,
>       similar to that of 07 December, '41 anniversary?
>
> Manasota Key, Florida
> 22 1913Z NOV 06
>
>
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